David Wingrove
'Imagine a collaboration between James Clavell and Frank Herbert and the result might be something very much like Chung Kuo... smart, involving, entertaining.' San Francisco Chronicle ‘Love, tragedy, joy and a sense of destiny fulfilled – all human life (and death) is here.’ The Times
‘Awesome. Chung Kuo carries the hallmark of legend.’ SFX
‘Colossal. A long-awaited, elaborately frightening vision of the future.’ Sunday Times
‘Massive. Brutal. Excellent.’ Guardian
Book 4 of Chung-Kuo: An Epic Future History of Earth
Spring 2201 - Spring 2203: TheT'ang who make up the ruling Seven are struggling to maintain stasis and prevent change, as the "War That Wasn't A War" is fought within the levels of Chung Kuo's great world-spanning City: a war fought not with armies on battlefields but with an inventive evil - with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings.
Adding to the pressure for change is the existence of a document that charts the true history of this world, not the version invented and policed by the Ministry - the "Thousand Eyes" - who have, for so long, maintained this dark shadow at the very heart of Chung Kuo. Its discovery by the Dispersionists will fuel their ardent desire for change and for an end to Han rule.
Lined up against the Dispersionists are a handful of men utterly loyal to the Seven - men like General Tolonen, along with the two men he has recruited from the Lowers, Gregor Karr and Kao Chen. When Tolonen destroys the newly-built generation-starship, The New Hope, he will change Chung Kuo forever by declaring war on the Dispersionists.
DAVID WINGROVE is the Hugo-Award winning co-author (with Brian Aldiss) of The Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction. He is also the co-author of the first three MYST books – novelizations of one of the world’s bestselling computer games. He lives in north London with his wife and four daughters.
Edited manuscript available: September 2012
Extent: 336pp
Publication: December 2012
Editor: Sara O’Keeffe
Rights: World
France: Editions L’Atalante; Turkey: Kalkedon Yayinlari
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