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The brand-new prequel to Chung Kuo, a masterwork of future history standing alongside Herbert's Dune and Asimov's FoundationThe year is 2085, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset, Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in '43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world's financial markets. He saw what was comingand who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is comingquite literallyacross the plain toward him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding World of Levels, a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch'un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced orderbut a
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- Author
- Wingrove, David
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books (UK)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848875265
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
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