The final novel of the Chung Kuo Series - a science fiction masterpiece. "The Great Experiement had failed. The Ten Thousand Year Empire of the Han has lasted less than two centuries and now not a single stack remains of the great city of ice that once covered the habitable earth. Europe is DeVore's, America is a brutal dictatorship, while the rest of the globe groans beneath the rule of callous warlords. Li Yuan, once the most powerful man on earth, is now an exile in America. Banished to an endless round of tours and banquets, he unexpectedly finds a new role - one that will once more tie him to the destiny of Chung Kuo. and then there is Kim Ward, the Star-Seeker, the spider in the web. Will he leave Chung Kuo to its fate? Or will he turn his great fleet around and return to fight one final battle -- winner take all?" The Marriage of the Living Dark is the eighth and final novel in the Chung Kuo series, most of which have been translated into many languages. David Wingrove lives in North London with his wife and four daughters.

The Marriage Of The Living Dark: A Chung Kuo Novel: Book Eight

Literature & Fiction

David Wingrove

World Literature

Bantam Books of Canada Ltd

The Stone Within (Chung Kuo)

Dell

The Middle Kingdom Chung Kuo #1

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Seven continents. Seven Chinese kings. A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society. But the T'ang overlords no longer control all three hundred levels of City Earth. Revolution is brewing. As the all-powerful Seven plot the boldest imaginable counterstrike, a plan to control the minds of all humankind, Chung Kuo speeds toward cataclysm, and the final game between East and West, between the privileged Above and the downtrodden Below--a monumental confrontation with forty billion lives in the balance. An epic that draws us into an alternative world so read that we become true denizens of the new Middle Kingdom, touched by tomorrow's longings . . . driven by forces as ancient as the first human breath.

The Broken Wheel Book 2 Chung Kuo

New English Library Ltd.

The final book in David Wingrove's critically acclaimed science fiction masterpiece is set among the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine," where former freedom-fighter Emily Ascher now serves as mother to the orphan boys of a war-devastated land. But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born, a baby girl smothered and thrown away, but not yet dead, and a baby boy delivered into a hostile land, yet determined to fight for his life. They are part of a new generation who will see more death than any who have gone before.Although peace seems to reign, the puppet master of an army of giant androids plans one final absolute destruction. And although the great T'ang, the dictators of Earth, are gone, mega corporation GenSyn remains*as does its pleasure drug which will turn Chung Kuo into a funeral pyre. Now the only escape lies in sending survivors toward new stars, or joining Emily Ascher in a battle for liberty and a new Earth.

Chung Kuo, book seven: Days of bitter strength

Hodder&Stoughton

White Moon Red Dragon Chung Kuo Book 6

Literary

The Book of Atrus (Myst, Book 1)

Rand Miller

Robyn Miller

Random House Value Publishing, Inc.

Myst: The Book of Ti'ana Bk. 2 (Myst)

Corgi

Based on the best-selling CD-ROM game, a fantasy novel fills out the lives of the game's characters, tracing the strange apprenticeship of Atrus to his father, Gehn, who wields the power to create worlds. Reprint.

Voice

Excitement for the MYST series continues with the release of the new CD-ROM Riven, the long awaited sequel to MYST. In this third novel by the creators of the CD-ROM phenomenon, Catherine and Atrus return to the devastated domain of the D'Ni civilization to fulfill their destinies. But as they begin to search the many worlds, seeking the survivors Ti'ana told them of, they find clues that bring them to a hidden book and discover a secret that the D'Ni masters planned long ago.

The Book of D'Ni (Myst, Book 3)

Hyperion

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