- Utopias, Fiction, History, Fiction, historical
A prequel to the video-game franchise explains how the technologically advanced undersea city called Rapture came to be and how it eventually devolved into a chaotic dystopia.
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Grave, classical in form, plot-driven and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Shirley
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 430
- Publisher
- Tor
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765324856
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**John (Patrick) Shirley** is an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. Source: Wikipedia
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