Chasing the Phoenix: A Science Fiction Novel - Hardcover

Swanwick, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765380900 ISBN 13: 9780765380906

Verlag: Tor Books, 2015

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Chasing the Phoenix: a science fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick!

In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems.

Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright, are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers, they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler. And, against all odds, it begins to work, but it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes. Chasing the Phoenix is a sharp, slick, witty science fiction adventure that is hugely entertaining from Michael Swanwick, one of the best SF writers alive.

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Michael Swanwick has won five Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award in his long career of science fiction. He is the author of Dancing with Bears and the short story collection The Dog Said Bow-Wow. He has also made contributions science fiction field with critical essays as well as a biography of Hope Mirrlees. Swanwick lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0765380900
• ISBN 13: 9780765380906
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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