Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett, Kanan Gill weaves a story that will surprise you. It\nrefuses to take itself seriously, yet raises the most serious of questions - what\ndoes it mean to be human?\nIn a post-nuclear winter world, now free from borders, war, poverty and\noverpopulation, the smartest man on the planet is working on the most illegal thing\nimaginable. Once a celebrated scientist for whom the Authority had to come up with an\nentirely new 'Genius Category 3', Dr K has resigned as the head of the Scientific\nInstitute and now spends his days in a hungover, crotchety haze, relegated to working\non a trifling project. But unknown to everyone else, he is obsessively simulating\nuniverses, intervening in these simulations, and when they fail to achieve what he\nwants, terminating them.\nBut all of his delicate interferences to nudge these simulated realities in the right\ndirection inevitably come up short against the most unlikely spanner in the works -\nbumbling private detective P. Manjunath.\nIn Kanan Gill's wildly entertaining and unexpectedly moving debut novel, a Danish\npoliceman accidentally becomes a clothing-optional leader of a worldwide group of\nscience haters, a sentient piece of wall struggles with the limits of its artistic expression\nand a lapel pin's habit of always giving truthful advice causes chaos. Blending vivid\ninventiveness and uproarious storytelling, with an intriguing interrogation of the very\nnature of existence, Acts of God marks the evolution of one of our finest comedic\nvoices.