- English Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Roman anglais, Traductions françaises
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails 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.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Priest
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- New York Review Books, NYRB Classics, Gollancz / Orion
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780330256605
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