by PaulMcAuley (Author)
The final volume of this lusciously scenic quest for the past, which blends exoticism with dogmatic bureaucracy in a world crowded with wonders. Ten million years in the future, humans have evolved into the God-like Preservers and have fled the Universe, but are still worshipped by those servant races they raised to intelligence and gifted the vast artificial world of Confluence. Yama, the Child of the River, has stumbled into the middle of a civil war. While the dispossessed peoples of Confluence hope that Yama may renew their world, he must discover the strength to fight not only his enemies without, but the enemy within.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 14 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 1857989813
ISBN 13: 9781857989816
Book Overview: McAuley won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1995, establishing him as the hottest British SF writer 'Already Paul J. McAuley is a better novelist than most of the established giants in the field' Time Out 'A marvellously sustained cosmogonic romance of the far future -- where whole galaxies engage in Stapledonian dances at the behest of the trans-human Preservers' John Clute, SF Weekly Shrine of Stars is the epic conclusion to the Books of Confluence, a 'lusciously scenic quest for the past' Daily Telegraph 'This is a trilogy that you will want pinned down to the board. This is magic.' Interzone