Dichronauts
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (667 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073PDGZRG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 125 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
pgcd said World-building at its finest. First off, the usual disclaimer: I believe Greg Egan to be the absolute apex in the "science" chain of hard science fiction - his ideas are always one (or a dozen) steps ahead of anything I've read by any other author, and his world-building is stunning."Dichronauts" is no exception: choosing to set a novel in a universe with very different rules from our own is a long and respected tradition . Liviu Vanoaica said Genius. Genius, as always. Don't hesitate to readâ some introductory material before reading the novel, it will help a lot and save a lot of frustration.
Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates. If he starts to turn to the north or south, his body stretches out across the landscape, and to rotate as far as north-northeast is impossible. Cities are being constantly disassembled at one edge and rebuilt at the other, with surveyors mapping safe routes ahead. As the habitable zone continues to move, the migration will soon be blocked by this unbridgeable void, and the expedition has only one option to save its city from annihilation: descend in