WORLD ENGINES DUOLOGY - DESTROYER & CREATOR - BOTH BOOKS ARE LIMITED, SIGNED & MATCHING NUMBERED, FIRST EDITION , FIRST PRINTINGS

BAXTER Stephen

ISBN 10: 1473223172 / ISBN 13: 9781473223172

Published by Gollancz, London, 2019

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Both Books have been Signed by Stephen Baxter Direct to the LIMITATION PAGE. To the same page, the books have been Numbered, each Book being Number 86 out of their respective Limited Edition of only 100 Copies. The Books and Dust Jackets are in As New condition. There are no inscriptions and the Dust Jackets have not been price clipped. These Unread books are guaranteed to be 1st Edition, 1st Printings. Publishers number sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 confirms that each book is a first printing The Jackets are protected by clear, removable, archival protective covering. The books are professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the books arrive at your destination in perfect condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WORLD ENGINES DUOLOGY - DESTROYER & CREATOR - BOTH BOOKS ARE LIMITED, SIGNED & MATCHING NUMBERED, FIRST EDITION , FIRST PRINTINGS
• Publisher: Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473223172
• ISBN 13: 9781473223172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

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Synopsis

In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . .

In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns . . .

By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars.

After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved . . . His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining . . . But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years . . .