City At The End Of Time
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of visionary science fiction, City at the End of Time chronicles the desperate struggle of a small group of dreamers in present-day Seattle who are inexplicably linked to Nataraja, a last bastion of human civilization standing against the encroaching Typhon — a force of pure chaos consuming the universe at the end of time. Greg Bear constructs a vast, intricate narrative that weaves together quantum fate, ancient myth, and cosmic horror, presenting a story that is simultaneously intimate and staggeringly epic in scope. The novel argues that memory, story, and human consciousness itself are the final weapons against oblivion, giving the narrative a profound philosophical weight beneath its pulse-pounding tension. Bear's prose is dense and richly imagined, rewarding patient readers with one of the most ambitious thought experiments in modern speculative fiction — a meditation on what it means to exist when existence itself is under siege.
Author: Greg Bear
Format: Hardback
Published: 2008, Gollancz / Orion Publishing Group
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of visionary science fiction, City at the End of Time chronicles the desperate struggle of a small group of dreamers in present-day Seattle who are inexplicably linked to Nataraja, a last bastion of human civilization standing against the encroaching Typhon — a force of pure chaos consuming the universe at the end of time. Greg Bear constructs a vast, intricate narrative that weaves together quantum fate, ancient myth, and cosmic horror, presenting a story that is simultaneously intimate and staggeringly epic in scope. The novel argues that memory, story, and human consciousness itself are the final weapons against oblivion, giving the narrative a profound philosophical weight beneath its pulse-pounding tension. Bear's prose is dense and richly imagined, rewarding patient readers with one of the most ambitious thought experiments in modern speculative fiction — a meditation on what it means to exist when existence itself is under siege.