โ Scribed by David Wingrove
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A towering world-city covers almost every acre ofevery continent. Seven high-tech fiefdoms, ruledby seven lords united in unimaginable power. Butnow the wheel is broken. the Seven are divided atlast. Armed rebellion has broken out in ChungKuo's few remaining open spaces; on the vast grainfarms, within the chilly Mars colony... and alongthe proud spine of the mountain chains, where hardyguerrillas scoff at the gunships of the T'ang. Indesperation, the Seven plot their final solutionin secret council, a gambit that could ensurepeace... at a terrible price.
An epicthat drives us into an alternative world so realthat we become true denizens of the new MiddleKingdom, touched by tomorrow's longings... driven byforces as ancient as man's firstbreath.
The ordered harmony with which the Seven Families rule a China-dominated 23rd century begins to disintegrate as rebellious forces from within and without reveal their hidden agendas. Wingrove's epic future history features multiple plots and an endless series of intrigues. A formidable cast of characters may dissuade new readers, but series fans will want this title. Purchase where indicated by demand.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Chunk three of Wingrove's projected seven-book, 23rd-century megayarn: the repressed West's stealthy struggle to overthrow Chinese capitalist overlords. The conspiracy against the Chinese is coordinated by the brilliant, ice-cold Howard DeVore and his underlings--terrorist leader Jan Mach and the vicious, ambitious double agent Hans Ebert, now appointed second-in-command to Li Yuan, one of the seven T'angs who rule the world. Thanks to the rebels' efforts, the T'angs' grip on absolute power is crumbling, their scheme to install mind- controlling electrodes in their subjects' brains in ruins. DeVore, meanwhile, having masterfully wrecked Europe, looks to America as a new source of allies and funds; eventually he will go to Mars to continue his development of biological-warfare techniques. So it goes. And goes: description with exposition by cardboard characters against a backdrop that grows ever more friable and unlikely. The effect is numbing, unless you already share Wingrove's peculiar obsessions. -- Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Chung Kuo [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780440213567
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