Inverted World

Name: Inverted World
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ISBN: 9781590172698

ISBN-10: 1590172698

ISBN-13: 9781590172698

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christopher Priest, John Clute

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The city is winched along a track through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Tracks must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city’s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the “optimum,” slipping into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on earth. The only alternative to the city’s forward progress is death. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in creches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 7/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.96" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English