This is the first book in the "Confluence" trilogy. Set ten million years in the future, it tells the story of the peoples of Confluence, shaped and raised to intelligence by the god-like Preservers, but now abandoned and facing civil war.
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Paul McAuley won the Philip K. Dick Award for his first novel and has gone on to win the Arthur C. Clarke, British Fantasy, Sidewise and John W. Campbell Awards. He gave up his position as a research biologist to write full-time. He lives in London.
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Paul Young (illustrator). London: Victor Gollancz:, 1997. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 286 pp. Cover artwork by: Paul Young First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, Seller Inventory # 460
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1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 2563136
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Young, Paul (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. (The first US edition was published by Avon Eos in June 1998.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or an ex-library copy. "McAuley has begun shaping a powerful epic that could be one of the most important in recent SF." - Locus, December 1997, pg. 68. "It promises to be a major work that will undoubtedly be compared to Majipoor and other SF creations." - Science Fiction Chronicle, February 1998, pg. 59. "On a distant planet seeded with 10,000 bloodlines, beset by crumbling technology and feral machines, a young man seeks his destiny. In this assured and dazzlingly inventive novel, the ever-versatile McAuley tackles the tale of the far future and makes it his own." - Publisher's Weekly. Award History: 1998 Publisher's Weekly Best of 1998 List. Seller Inventory # 001093
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