Polostan By:Neal Stephenson

• The book is titled Polostan
• It’s written by the acclaimed Neal Stephenson
• Stephenson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author
• He’s known for complex and inventive works like Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon
• Polostan is the first installment in a new, monumental trilogy
• It’s described as an expansive historical epic
• Themes include intrigue and international espionage
• It specifically presages the dawn of the Atomic Age
• The Times calls the book “Inventive”
• The main character is named Dawn Rae Bjornberg
• She’s born in the American West
• Her family are described as “cowboy anarchists”
• She’s then raised in post-revolution Leningrad
• Her father is a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora
• She spends her early childhood years in Russia
• As a teenager, she grows up in Montana
• She gets involved in gun-running during the Great Depression
• She’s also part of revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C.
• A surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities
• This prompts Dawn to return to Russia
• In Russia, she is groomed as a spy
• This spy organization later evolves into the KGB
• The story is set against the turbulent decades of the early 20th century
• It promises to be richly detailed and deeply entertaining
• This definitely sounds like a captivating start to a new series from a master storyteller!