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City at the End of Time : A Novel by Greg Bear (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Worlds
ISBN-100345448405
ISBN-139780345448408
eBay Product ID (ePID)71891041
Product Key Features
Book TitleCity at the End of Time : a Novel
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicScience Fiction / Time Travel, Fantasy / General, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorGreg Bear
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsPRAISE FOR GREG BEAR City at the End of Time "Lyrical, beautiful, and set one hundred trillion years after the heat death of the universe." Jeff Bezos, chairman and CEO, Amazon.com "Bear is one of our greatest science fiction writers." Vernor Vinge, award-winning author of Rainbows End Quantico "An adrenaline-amped thriller that will scare the hell out of you." Robert Crais "As impossible to let go of as a live wire." The Seattle Times Dead Lines "A really excellent novel." Stephen King Darwin's Radio "A frightening new wrinkle in human evolution . . . Darwin's Radio delivers the kind of narrative kick that distinguishes such novels as Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos." San Francisco Chronicle "A masterpiece . . . Fascinating." USA Today From the Hardcover edition., "Represents a return to the sort of big and imaginative science-fiction epic that [Greg Bear's] many fans particularly covet." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "[A] triumphant return to large-scale SF . . . beautifully written." -- Publishers Weekly, A Best Book of the Year "[ City at the End of Time ] has the flavor of weird fantasy, closer in its feel to the works of China Miéville than anything Bear has done before. It . . . has an epic depth." -- Sci Fi Weekly "A gripping, original tale." -- NewScientist "Powerful and evocative." -- Analog "Superlative . . . an excellent, excellent work." --Harlan Ellison "Compelling . . . a remarkable tour de force of sustained visionary writing . . . one of Bear's best novels, perhaps even the very best." -- Locus, "Represents a return to the sort of big and imaginative science-fiction epic that [Greg Bear's] many fans particularly covet."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer "[A] triumphant return to large-scale SF . . . beautifully written."-Publishers Weekly,A Best Book of the Year "[City at the End of Time] has the flavor of weird fantasy, closer in its feel to the works of Neil Gaiman or China Miéville than anything Bear has done before. It . . . has an epic depth."-Sci Fi Weekly "A gripping, original tale."-NewScientist "Powerful and evocative."-Analog "Superlative . . . an excellent, excellent work."-Harlan Ellison "Compelling . . . a remarkable tour de force of sustained visionary writing . . . one of Bear's best novels, perhaps even the very best."-Locus, "Represents a return to the sort of big and imaginative science-fiction epic that [Greg Bear's] many fans particularly covet."- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "[A] triumphant return to large-scale SF . . . beautifully written."- Publishers Weekly, A Best Book of the Year "[ City at the End of Time ] has the flavor of weird fantasy, closer in its feel to the works of Neil Gaiman or China Miéville than anything Bear has done before. It . . . has an epic depth."- Sci Fi Weekly "A gripping, original tale."- NewScientist "Powerful and evocative."- Analog "Superlative . . . an excellent, excellent work."-Harlan Ellison "Compelling . . . a remarkable tour de force of sustained visionary writing . . . one of Bear's best novels, perhaps even the very best."- Locus
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SynopsisIn a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young peopleGinny, Jack, and Danieldream of a decadent, doomed city of the distant future: the Kalpa. But more than dreams link these three: They are fate-shifters, born with the ability to skip across the surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum-runners that persist unchanged through all versions of time. Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum-runners on behalf of a terrifying, goddess-like entity known as the Chalk Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the futureand complete the greatest achievement in human history., In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people-Ginny, Jack, and Daniel-dream of a decadent, doomed city of the distant future: the Kalpa. But more than dreams link these three: They are fate-shifters, born with the ability to skip across the surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum-runners that persist unchanged through all versions of time. Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum-runners on behalf of a terrifying, goddess-like entity known as the Chalk Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the future-and complete the greatest achievement in human history.
