To Conquer Chaos
β Scribed by John Brunner
- Publisher
- Roca Editorial/Open Road EspaΓ±ol;Open Road Media
- Year
- 1980;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In To Conquer Chaos, John Brunner gives us a heaping helping of classic planetary science fiction adventure. The barrenland is a mystery and an enigma, a dangerous and terrifying place that none who enter ever return from. More than three hundred miles around, it has existed far longer than collective memory can guess, and all too often, strange beasts emerge from it and kill at random.
Conrad lives on the edge of the barrenland and is haunted by visions of its past as a haven, populated by magical people who could travel between worlds. He meets Jervis Yenderman, a soldier who has knowledge of the visions and who believes that within the barrenland is an island of human survivorsβand that one man has escaped it within recent memory.
For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential...
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