The Demi-Monde: Winter: Book I of the Demi-Monde - Softcover

Rees, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849163030 ISBN 13: 9781849163033

Publisher: Quercus, 2011

Synopsis

EXPERIENCE THE ULTIMATE IN VIRTUAL REALITY. The Demi-Monde is the most advanced computer simulation ever devised. Created to prepare soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare, it is a virtual world locked in eternal civil war. Its thirty million digital inhabitants are ruled by duplicates of some of history's cruellest tyrants: Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust; Beria, Stalin's arch executioner; Torquemada, the pitiless Inquisitor General; Robespierre, the face of the Reign of Terror. But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the US President's daughter has become trapped in this terrible world. It falls to eighteen-year-old Ella Thomas to rescue her, yet once Ella has entered the Demi-Monde she finds that everything is not as it seems, that its cyber-walls are struggling to contain the evil within and that the Real World is in more danger than anyone realises.

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Product Description:

521 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Experience The Ultimate In Virtual Reality

Review:

"A brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins's THE HUNGER GAMES, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees's THE DEMI MONDE: WINTER."--BookReporter (starred review)

"Strong characters, along with the clever interweaving of seemingly disparate plot threads, make this a standout selection for fans of high-tech sf and cyberfiction."--Library Journal.com (starred review)

"Explosively creative barely defines Rod Rees's The Demi-Monde Winter. It blew me away as the novel skated on the razor's edge between where we are today and where we're headed tomorrow. As much a cautionary tale as a gripping thriller cut from a digital cloth."--James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Colony

"Novel and fresh....An adventure tale wrapped in a computer simulation."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"Superb....Such an inventive world is engrossing on its own, but the wildly unpredictable plot and characters make for plenty of surprises and twists."--Wichita Eagle

Explosively creative barely defines Rod Rees s The Demi-Monde Winter. It blew me away as the novel skated on the razor s edge between where we are today and where we re headed tomorrow. As much a cautionary tale as a gripping thriller cut from a digital cloth. --James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Colony"

Strong characters, along with the clever interweaving of seemingly disparate plot threads, make this a standout selection for fans of high-tech sf and cyberfiction. --Library Journal.com (starred review)"

Novel and fresh .An adventure tale wrapped in a computer simulation. --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"

A brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins s THE HUNGER GAMES, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees s THE DEMI MONDE: WINTER. --BookReporter (starred review)"

Elegantly constructed, skillfully written, and absolutely impossible to stop reading. --Booklist (starred review)"

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849163030
• ISBN 13: 9781849163033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576