IMMOVABLE PEACE The year is 2196. The great Empire of Ice, Chung Kuo, has finally been shaken after more than a century of peace enforced by brutal tyranny. The Minister of the Edict - an official responsible for licensing all technology that could lead to Change - has been assassinated. The seven ruling T'ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their mile-high, continent-spanning cities descend into chaos. IRRESISTIBLE CHAOS Amid the chaos, the rebels responsible for the assassination seize the opportunity to effect ...
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IMMOVABLE PEACE The year is 2196. The great Empire of Ice, Chung Kuo, has finally been shaken after more than a century of peace enforced by brutal tyranny. The Minister of the Edict - an official responsible for licensing all technology that could lead to Change - has been assassinated. The seven ruling T'ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their mile-high, continent-spanning cities descend into chaos. IRRESISTIBLE CHAOS Amid the chaos, the rebels responsible for the assassination seize the opportunity to effect Change. But the assassination was orchestrated by those far closer to the ruling power and this betrayal, the first of many, will lead them all into the world-shattering War of Two Directions. WAR IS COMING...
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Add this copy of Chung Kuo 1 the Middle Kingdom to cart. $23.81, good condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1991 by A Dell Book Published by Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday....
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Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. THE ACCLAIMED EPIC OF THE FUTURE. SYNOPSIS: THE YEAR IS 2190. CHINA HAS ONCE AGAIN BECOME A WORLD UNTO ITSELF AND THIS TIME ITS ONLY BOUNDARY IS SPACE...The world is City Earth, ruled by the Seven, China's new kings. Beautiful, controlled, sensual, this high-tech society is rushing toward war between the forces of West and East, between the rebels who hunger for change and the overlords who demand stability, between the very powers of darkness and light. It will be an era of violent conflagration destined to expose the basest elements of human nature...and the highest dreams. An epic that draws us into an alternative world so real, so complete that we become denizens of the new Middle Kingdom, touched by longings we never imagined...driven by forces as ancient as man's first breath. NOT SINCE ASIMOV'S FOUNDATION BOOKS AND HERBERT'S DUNE HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A MAJESTIC AND POWERFUL VISION OF A BELIEVABLE OTHER WORLD...SEDUCTIVE, CHILLING, UNFORGETTBLE!
Add this copy of Chung Kuo 1 the Middle Kingdom to cart. $34.24, like new condition, Sold by Lisa Van Munster rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oshawa, ON, CANADA, published 1990 by Delacorte Press Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc..
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Jean Tuttle. Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 0190. COVER DESIGN: Pentagram. CONTENTS: PROLOGUE Winter 2190--Yin/Yang; PART 1 Spring 2196--A Spring Day at the Edge of the World; PART 2 Spring 2198--Beneath the Yellow Springs; PART 3 Spring 2201--The Domain; PART 4 Summer 2201--Ice and Fire; EPILOGUE Summer 2202/Spring 2203--Mosaics; Author's Note; Glossary of Mandarin Terms; Acknowledgments; In Times to Come...SYNOPSIS: Only once in a generation does a work of imagination appear that is so textured, so complex, so dramatic and powerful that readers feel drawn into a complete, believable other world. Readers felt it when they discovered Isaac Asimov's Foundation books, Jean Auel's Earth's Children books, Frank Herbert's Dune books. Now, discover perhaps the most fascinating and colorful alternative world ever created: David Wingrove's Chung Kuo. Chung Kuo is a vast epic of the future--a wondrous blend of the exotic flavours of ancient China and the high-tech shine of cutting-edge futurism. In David Wingrove's vision of the distant future, the Chinese long ago took over the world and set out to attain "The peace of Ten Thousand Years" based on the tenets of New Confucianism. The seven ruling T'ang, or "Kings", rule the seven great cities by the traditional Chinese idea that peace is attained through strict order and stability. But many believe that their stability is a stagnating tyranny. One small group of European elite--calling themselves "Dispersionists"--begin a campaign to bring change into the world of Chung Kuo, and live out their deep-rooted Western need for progress. Chung Kuo is the epic story of this "War of Two Directions"--a grand conflict between the Western idea of progress and the Eastern belief in stability. In its pages we follow the fortunes of four young men from all walks of Chung Kuo society--from the son of a T'ang to a slave born in the rubble beneath the city's foundations--and it is their strengths, dreams, passions, and struggles that move this remarkable work to its stunning conclusion, and ultimately change the course of humankind. Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom is the first in a seven-volume cycle of novels that tells the entire story of the world of Chung Kuo and the War of Two Directions. David Wingrove is the co-author (with Brian Aldiss) of the Hugo Award-winning nonfiction work Trillion Year Spree. He lives in North London with his wife, Susan, and his daughters, Jessica and Amy. He has been working for the past six years on the Chung Kuo novels. The Middle Kingdom is his first work of fiction.
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