Confluence - The Trilogy, 9780575119420
Paperback
Artificial world, war, and a chosen one’s destiny awaits.

Confluence - The Trilogy

child of the river, ancients of days, shrine of stars

$58.09

  • Paperback

    944 pages

  • Release Date

    12 October 2015

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Summary

Confluence: A World Forged in War and Mystery

Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. A world beyond the end of human history, served by countless machines, inhabited by 10,000 bloodlines who worship their absent creators, riven by a vast war against heretics.

This is the home of Yama, found as an infant in a white boat on the world’s Great River, raised by an obscure bureaucrat in an obscure town in the middle of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575119420
ISBN-10:057511942X
Series:Confluence
Author:Paul McAuley
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:944
Release Date:12 October 2015
Weight:644g
Dimensions:129mm x 197mm x 56mm
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Critics Review

A marvellously sustained cosmogonic romance of the far future - where whole galaxies engage in Stapledonian dances at the behest of the trans-human Preservers.

Richly detailed and lyrically told - LIBRARY JOURNAL

Highly entertaining and beautifully written - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

About The Author

Paul McAuley

Paul McAuley won the PHILIP K. DICK AWARD for his first novel and has gone on to win the ARTHUR C. CLARKE, BRITISH FANTASY, SIDEWISE and JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDs. He gave up his position as a research biologist to write full-time. He lives in London.

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