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Title: Century Rain
Condition: New
EAN: 9780575082496
ISBN: 9780575082496
Publisher: Gollancz
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 11/12/2008
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 36mm
Item Weight: 422g
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0575082496
Description:

Part SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, CENTURY RAIN is as astonishing bestseller from Alastair Reynolds

Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.

Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?

CENTURY RAIN is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.


Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Science Fiction
Release Year: 2008

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