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City at the End of Time
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by Greg Bear
Sales Rank : 21532
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Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: Del Rey August 5, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345448391
ISBN-13: 978-0345448392
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.6 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In his triumphant return to large-scale SF, Nebula and Hugo–winner Bear (Quantico) links three young drifters in present-day Seattle with an unimaginably distant future. When the drifters answer an odd newspaper advertisement, they soon find themselves caught up in a war between mysterious and powerful forces. Two not-quite-humans, creations of a million-year experiment, have discovered that their ancient fortress/city, perhaps the last refuge of intelligence in a dying universe, is about to fall before the onslaught of chaos. They have been chosen by beings evolved far beyond mere matter to undertake a dangerous mission to preserve the universe's last vestiges of consciousness. Somehow the two groups engage in telepathic communication despite the eons that separate them. Something of an homage to William Hope Hodgson's classic The Night Land, this complex, difficult and beautifully written tale will appeal to sophisticated readers who prefer thorny conundrums to fast-paced action. (Aug.)
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Product Review
PRAISE FOR GREG BEAR
City at the End of Time
“Lyrical, beautiful, and set one hundred trillion years after the heat death of the universe.”
–Jeff Bezos, chairman and CEO, Amazon.com
“Bear is one of our greatest science fiction writers.”
–Vernor Vinge, award-winning author of Rainbows End
Quantico
“An adrenaline-amped thriller that will scare the hell out of you.”
–Robert Crais
“As impossible to let go of as a live wire.”
–The Seattle Times
Dead Lines
“A really excellent novel.”
–Stephen King
Darwin’s Radio
“A frightening new wrinkle in human evolution . . . Darwin’s Radio delivers the kind of narrative kick that distinguishes such novels as Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End and John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“A masterpiece . . . Fascinating.”
–USA Today
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