Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable.
Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?
CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is something altogether stranger.
- ISBN:
- 9780575082496
- 9780575082496
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Category:
- Science fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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01-02-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 544
- Dimensions (mm):
- 196x130x36mm
- Weight:
- 0.42kg
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