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Joshua Ali Quare wakes in 2109 at the age of 140 in a strong, youthful body with no memory of his past, to find he is at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy. The only clues to his identity are the records he has left - messages from the man he once was....
In Kaleidoscope Century, Barnes has crafted his most dazzling work to date, a gritty, fast-paced odyssey through a dark and troubled future. At the end of the twentieth century, Joshua Quare was chosen by a mysterious cabal to be the object of a terrifying experiment. Every fifteen years a tailored virus ravages his system, making him gravely ill, and destroying his memories, but leaving him ten years younger. To preserve some shred of his identity, Quare has left himself a hypertext journal, a record Quare must search to learn his place in this bizarre and treacherous future.
As Quare journeys through his past, he discovers he has been a key figure in the history of a turbulent, violent century - soldier, criminal, assassin, spy. A century filled with killing plagues and warring cults, ruthless corporations and dying nations. A century where survival is often the only option.
Now someone is looking for him - someone from his past - and Quare must learn the terrifying secret of his history before it unleashes devastating consequences for the future of the human race.
In Kaleidoscope Century, Barnes has crafted his most dazzling work to date, a gritty, fast-paced odyssey through a dark and troubled future. At the end of the twentieth century, Joshua Quare was chosen by a mysterious cabal to be the object of a terrifying experiment. Every fifteen years a tailored virus ravages his system, making him gravely ill, and destroying his memories, but leaving him ten years younger. To preserve some shred of his identity, Quare has left himself a hypertext journal, a record Quare must search to learn his place in this bizarre and treacherous future.
As Quare journeys through his past, he discovers he has been a key figure in the history of a turbulent, violent century - soldier, criminal, assassin, spy. A century filled with killing plagues and warring cults, ruthless corporations and dying nations. A century where survival is often the only option.
Now someone is looking for him - someone from his past - and Quare must learn the terrifying secret of his history before it unleashes devastating consequences for the future of the human race.
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John Barnes is professor of English and theatre studies in the US. He is a Hugo and Nebula award shortlisted author.
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- PublisherTor Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0312855613
- ISBN 13 9780312855611
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Joshua Ali Quare lives life to the full-- deacdes before, he was infected with avirus that ensures that for every fifteen years he lives, he gains another ten. After each virus induced coma, he wakes with his memory erased and ten years younger. This time round, in 2109, someone is looking for him and it is time to pust the record straight once and for all; doing so takes us through a century of gripping future history. KALEIDOSCOPE CENTUR isthe second book in the Century Next Door series.John Barnes is a multiple Hugo and Nebula award nominee. Mint, new, unread, first edition, first printing, in new, mylar-protected dust acket. {Not remainder-mared or price-clipped} L158. Seller Inventory # 023732
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