RARE & NEW Uncorrected Proof ARC - Out 10/24! From the#1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy— an expensive historical epic of intrigue, international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party-line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia, but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun, running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. Authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she has groomed as a spy by the organization that later became the KGB. Set against the turbulence decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply, entertaining, historical epic, and the start of a captivating new series from Neal Stephenson.