Author: Paul McAuley Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Fantasy
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ISBNs: 9780380792962 0380792966 |
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Where all things flow together...everything comes apart. Untold millennia ago, the Preservers made the world called Confluence and peopled it with ten thousand extraordinary bloodlines "shaped" from beasts of every sort. Then the Preservers abandoned their creation - leaving behind their law, their bureaucracies...and their trillions of machines, awake or slumbering, in the soil and the water and the air. In the Preservers' absence war came - and a dangerous heresy arose that split the world in two.
But a babe swept in on the great river, cradled in the arms of death - the last and, perhaps, greatest of a remarkable bloodline - and now the end times are at hand. And as Yama grows to young manhood, he will make his way from necropolis to metropolis - and through the labrynthine country of the mind - in search of a past and a lost destiny. Each hairbreadth escape will make Yama stronger. And every unanticipated adventure will bring him one step closer to the staggering truth about his heritage and his purpose...and about a world that is not what it appears to be.
This book is part of the "Confluence" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Fluency" First published in 2014 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Ancients of Days" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Remanence" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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