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PublisherOrion Publishing Group, The Limited

ISBN-100575074361

ISBN-139780575074361

eBay Product ID (ePID)52185638

Product Key Features

Book TitleCentury Rain

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorAlastair Reynolds

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight36.9 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-276847

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsWith Century Rain, Alastair Reynolds continues the coruscating path he has blazed through SF skies. This a whopping 500-pager, brimming with ideas., While science ficiton and mystery have often been combined, no writer has done so with such intelligence or originality as Alastair Reynolds. In a single novel, he steps from the mean streets to the far future.", Century Rain is an absolute cracker of a novel. Reynolds has always been a consistently bright star in the firmament of British sci-fi but now he has suddenly, perhaps unexpectedly, gone supernova.|9780575074361|, Century Rain is an exciting, thought-provoking novel, an audacious synthesis of genre forms. Alastair Reynolds is now in his novelistic prime.

Volume NumberVol. 5

Dewey Decimal823/.92

SynopsisPart hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noirromance, CENTURY RAIN is the new bestseller from Al Reynolds, Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is something altogether stranger., Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by particpating in a dangerous mission.

LC Classification NumberPR6068.E95