Engine City (Engines of Light)

MacLeod, Ken

ISBN 10: 076530502X / ISBN 13: 9780765305022

Published by Tor Books / Tom Doherty, New York, 2003

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As is - two inch light water wrinkle to the top edge of the last couple pages, minor shelf rubbing to the jacket corners, very little wear overall. Text is clean. 'For ten thousand years, Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been secretly removed, throughout history, from Earth. Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come to offer immortality - and to urge New Babylon to build defenses against the alien invasion they know is coming.' 304 pages. Concluding volume of The Engines of Light. First Edition, January 2003. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engine City (Engines of Light)
• Publisher: Tor Books / Tom Doherty, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076530502X
• ISBN 13: 9780765305022
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light

With Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light, both finalists for science fiction’s Hugo Award, Ken MacLeod launched a new interstellar epic with all the engaging characters and ingenious SF inventiveness of his earlier Fall Revolution novels. Now MacLeod delivers the culmination of his epic of a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of intelligent alien life, and in which humans find themselves involved in the politics of aliens as powerful and inscrutable as gods...and entangled in their wars.

For ten thousand years, Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who have been secretly removed, throughout history, from Earth.

Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come to offer immortality—and to urge them to build defenses against the alien invasion they know is coming.

As humans and aliens compete and conspire, the wheels of history will lathe all the players into shapes new and surprising. The alien invasion will reach New Babylon at last—led by the most alien figure of all.

About the Author

Ken MacLeod holds a degree in zoology and has worked in the fields of biomechanics and computer programming. His first two novels, The Star Fraction and The Stone Canal, each won the Prometheus Award; The Cassini Division was a finalist for the Nebula Award; and The Sky Road won the British Science Fiction Association Award and was a finalist for the Hugo Award, as were his next two novels, Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light. Ken MacLeod lives near Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and children.