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core novel 2020 Rivers of London
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (28,007 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 349 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781473207882 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Synopsis
In the eighth Peter Grant novel, Peter, newly a father-to-be and on leave from the Metropolitan Police, takes a civilian job at the Serious Cybernetics Company, a Silicon Valley-style technology startup in London founded by the entrepreneur Terrence Skinner, expecting the work to be a calmer change of pace from his usual supernatural casework. He soon finds that magic has followed him into the office, centering on a mysterious device connected to the historical legacies of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, whose origins stretch far back into the history of computation while pointing toward unsettling possibilities for the future of artificial intelligence.
Where it sits
- Universe: Rivers of London
- Series: Peter Grant core; position 8 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Notes
- From the series record (Peter Grant): 10 full-length main-sequence novels (2011-2025), ongoing.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Peter Grant: position 8 of 10: previous Lies Sleeping (2018) · next Amongst Our Weapons (2022)
- Internal chronology, within Rivers of London: position 10 of 15: previous The October Man (2019) · next What Abigail Did That Summer (2021)
Sources
← Rivers of London dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.