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Seller: Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books, Redcar, United KingdomJeff 'n' Joys Quality Books
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A first UK edition trade (large sized) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Unread. Some age tanning to pages. Creasing along bottom edge of front cover. SYNOPSIS: "8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming, a shifting of continents and, over a few short years, the sea rushed in and our history was set. But what if the sea had been kept at bay? Brythony is a young girl who lives in Northland. Like all her people, she is a hunter gatherer, her simple tools fashioned from flint cutting edges lodged in wood and animal bone. When the sea first encroaches on her land, her people simply move. Brythony moves further travelling to Asia, where she sees mankind's first walled cities and gets an idea. What if you could build a wall to keep the sea out?" Packed weight 800 gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.…
Seller Inventory # 9456
- Title
- Stone Spring
- Author
- Stephen BAXTER
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0575089199
- ISBN 13
- 9780575089198
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: The Northland Trilogy
Ten thousand years ago, a vast and fertile plain exists linking the British Isles to Europe. Home to a tribe of simple hunter-gatherers, Northland teems with nature's bounty, but is also subject to its whims.
Fourteen-year-old Ana calls Northland home, but her world is changing. The air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. Then Ana meets a traveler from a far-distant city called Jericho-a city that is protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible...
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About the Author
His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He has been a full-time author since 1995 and is currently Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association.
His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, France. His books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. He has also published over 100 sf short stories, several of which have won prizes. He can be found at stephen-baxter.com.
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Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books
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