WHO OWNS THE STARS? 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 immor
Engine City
β Scribed by Ken Macleod
- Publisher
- Macmillan;Tor
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Edition
- First mass market edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1429977191
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β¦ 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. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
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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
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
Al centro della Seconda Sfera, il gigantesco settore dello spazio occupato dai *kraken* e dai rettili intelligenti, i discendenti della Terra lottano contro il dominio di minacciosi sfruttatori alieni. Ora, dotato di supernavi che possono competere con le flotte piΓΉ evolute, un gruppo di esseri uman
Al centro della Seconda Sfera, il gigantesco settore dello spazio occupato dai *kraken* e dai rettili intelligenti, i discendenti della Terra lottano contro il dominio di minacciosi sfruttatori alieni. Ora, dotato di supernavi che possono competere con le flotte piΓΉ evolute, un gruppo di esseri uman
Al centro della Seconda Sfera, il gigantesco settore dello spazio occupato dai *kraken* e dai rettili intelligenti, i discendenti della Terra lottano contro il dominio di minacciosi sfruttatori alieni. Ora, dotato di supernavi che possono competere con le flotte piΓΉ evolute, un gruppo di esseri uman