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Child Of The River Confluence 1

by Paul J Mcauley
Child Of The River Confluence 1

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ISBN13: 9780380792962
ISBN10: 0380792966
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An Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner for his novel "Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley designs and fabricates remarkably intricate worlds. He builds some out of solid bricks of science, some from granite carved from the rich quarry of human history and experience. All are marvelous constructs of invention and thought; enthralling landscapes to wander, explore and lose oneself in.

He offers now a world that stands distinctly apart: a place of savagery, secrets and war; the home of ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines ruled by universal devotion to absent gods; a realm of merchants, mercenaries, ghouls, heretics, bureaucrats and feral machines; a world called Confluence.

"Child Of The River is the first book of the end times; the beginning chapter in the final great epic of a mysterious civilization. In it, a singular young man named Yama makes his way from a ghostly city of the dead to a metropolis of living wonders, and through the labyrinthine country An Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner for his novel "Fairyland, Paul J. McAuley designs and fabricates remarkably intricate worlds. He builds some out of solid bricks of science, some from granite carved from the rich quarry of human history and experience. All are marvelous constructs of invention and thought; enthralling landscapes to wander, explore and lose oneself in. He offers now a world that stands distinctly apart: a place of savagery, secrets and war; the home of ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines ruled by universal devotion to absent gods; a realm of merchants, mercenaries, ghouls, heretics, bureaucrats and feral machines; a world called Confluence. "Child Of The River isthe first book of the end times; the beginning chapter in the final great epic of a mysterious civilization. In it, a singular young man named Yama makes his way from a ghostly city of the dead to a metropolis of living wonders, and through the labyrinthine country o


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Paul J. McAuley won a Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars. He won the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for his novel Fairyland. In addition he has published five other novels-including Child of the River,the first book of Confluence--and two collections of short stories. In 1995, his short story, "The Temptation of Dr. Stein," won the British Fantasy Society Award. Mr. McAuley is a regular contributor to the British SF magazine Interzone and writes reviews for Foundation. He lives in London.

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ISBN:
9780380792962
Binding:
Mass Market
Publication date:
06/01/1999
Publisher:
AVON BOOKS
Series info:
Confluence 1
Pages:
321 p.
Height:
6.93 in.
Width:
4.23 in.
Thickness:
.91 in.
Series:
Confluence 1
Number of Units:
1
Series Volume:
01
UPC Code:
2800380792964
Author:
Paul J Mcauley
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Fantastic fiction
Subject:
Fantasy
Subject:
Future life
Subject:
Fantasy fiction

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