War of the Maps
'The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart.' Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man - a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman - is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war, to use his unique talents on the enemy. So the lucidor has ignored orders, deserted from his job, left his home and thrown his life away, in order to finally claim justice.Separated by massive seas, the various maps dotted on the surface of this…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4732-1735-5
- EAN: 9781473217355
- Produktnummer: 20264781
- Verlag: Orion
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.8 cm 300 g
- Gewicht: 300
Über den Autor
Paul McAuley (Born 1955)Paul James McAuley was born in Gloucestershire on St George's Day, 1955. He has a Ph.D in Botany and worked as a researcher in biology at various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University, before leaving academia to write full time. He started publishing science fiction with the short story Wagon, Passing for Asimov's Science Fiction in 1984. His first novel, 400 Billion Stars won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988, and 1995's Fairyland won the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Awards. He has also won the British Fantasy, Sidewise and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. He lives in London.You can find his blog at: http://www.unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com
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