Confluence - The Trilogy
Child of the River, Ancients of Days, Shrine of Stars
$56.80
- Paperback
944 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2015
Summary
Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. A world beyond the end of human history, served by countless machines, inhabited by 10,000 bloodlines who worship their absent creators, riven by a vast war against heretics.
This is the home of Yama, found as an infant in a white boat on the world’s Great River, raised by an obscure bureaucrat in an obscure town in the middle of a ruined necropolis, destined to become a clerk - until …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575119420 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 057511942X |
| Author: | Paul McAuley |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 644g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 197mm x 56mm |
| Series: | Confluence |
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Critics Review
A marvellously sustained cosmogonic romance of the far future - where whole galaxies engage in Stapledonian dances at the behest of the trans-human Preservers.
Richly detailed and lyrically told - LIBRARY JOURNAL
Highly entertaining and beautifully written - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAbout The Author
Paul McAuley
Born in Gloucestershire, Paul McAuley has a Ph.D in Botany and worked as a researcher and lecturer in various universities, including Oxford, St Andrews and the University of California, Los Angeles.
His first novel won the Philip K Dick Award; his fifth the Arthur C. Clarke and John. W. Campbell Awards. His novels and stories have also won the British Fantasy, Sidewise and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.
Although he lives in London, he spends as much time as possible getting lost in the woods.
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