Wow! eBook
The Middle Kingdom Main Edition
Author(s): David Wingrove (Author)
- Publisher: Corvus
- Publication Date: 18 Oct. 2012
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848877315
- ISBN-13: 9781848877313
Book Description
IMMOVABLE PEACE
The year is 2196. The great Empire of Ice, Chung Kuo, has finally been shaken after more than a century of peace enforced by brutal tyranny. The Minister of the Edict – an official responsible for licensing all technology that could lead to Change – has been assassinated. The seven ruling T’ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their mile-high, continent-spanning cities descend into chaos.
IRRESISTIBLE CHAOS
Amid the chaos, the rebels responsible for the assassination seize the opportunity to effect Change. But the assassination was orchestrated by those far closer to the ruling power and this betrayal, the first of many, will lead them all into the world-shattering War of Two Directions.
WAR IS COMING…
Editorial Reviews
Review
Love, tragedy, joy… all human life (and death) is here ―
The TimesColossal. A long-awaited, elaborately frightening vision of the future. ―
Sunday TimesQuite extraordinary… finally delivers SF into the hands of an English Proust
— Brian AldissOne of the masterpieces of the decade
― Washington PostExcellent… with a well-imagined universe, well-executed characters and action that doesn’t let up, this is Orwell’s
1984 but on an enormous canvas packed with detail ― Toronto Globe and MailMassive. Brutal. Excellent. ―
Guardian
