- Fiction, Women archaeologists, Time travel, Detective and mystery stories
"Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable of destroying both worlds at either end of the wormhole. And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it is too late - for the past and the future of two worlds" -- Cover verso.
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Epic, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Alastair Reynolds
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 525
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Ace Books
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780575082496
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British science fiction author I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my scie
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