Engine City by Ken Macleod (First Edition) Lee Gibbons Cvr

Ken Macleod

ISBN 10: 1841491489 / ISBN 13: 9781841491486

Published by Orbit Books, London, 2002

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Engine City by Ken Macleod (First Edition) Lee Gibbons Cvr Firm square copy. Bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. States, "First published in Great Britain by Orbit in 2002.".

Seller Inventory # HCX15869-3

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engine City by Ken Macleod (First Edition) Lee Gibbons Cvr
• Publisher: Orbit Books, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841491489
• ISBN 13: 9781841491486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Lee Gibbons(Jacket Art)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: BOOK
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

The acclaimed Engines of Light series that began with Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light reaches its staggering conclusion in Engine City. Two hundred years ago, a starship arrived at Nova Babylonia and unloaded a cargo of encyclopaedic information from the solar system of the mid-21st century. One hundred years ago, Nova Babylonia had used that information to create a Modern Regime - a heavily industrialised civilisation ready to defend itself against the aliens whose arrival was believed to be imminent. Today, Nova Babylonia is in decline. The alien invaders never came and the Regime has fallen. Into this corrupt city arrives an outsider whose purpose is ambiguous. But businessman or spy, he is not the only visitor. War is coming to Nova Babylonia. And the gods. Find out more about this and other titles at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Engine City
The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light

“Science fiction’s freshest new writer.” --Salon

“Ken MacLeod's novels are fast, funny, and sophisticated. There can never be enough books like these.”—Kim Stanley Robinson

“One of SF’s hottest new authors.”—Locus

Praise for The Engines of Light

“Ken MacLeod doesn’t just create believable futures—he breaks them down to explain what makes them tick.” -Wired on Cosmonaut Keep

“A portal to a deeply imagined future history that parlays X-Files paranoia about Area 51 and alien Greys into a vast interstellar community watched over by microcosmic gods.” --Paul McAuley on Cosmonaut Keep

“Marvelously inventive.”--San Diego Union-Tribune on Dark Light

“MacLeod at his strongest: clever, passionate, and committed.” —SFX on Dark Light