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Confluence (Confluence #1-3)
3 short novels in one volume. Confluence-a long, narrow man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micro-machines and ten thousand bloodlines ruiled by devotion to absent gods. This is the home of a singular young man named Yama. An infan...more
Unknown Binding, 878 pages
Published
2000
by EOS/HarperCollins
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I read this several years ago and was blown away by the concept of an artificially created world, long abandoned by its creators, and maintained by machines some of which are understood and controlled by the world's current inhabitants. When an orphan child appears who can control the world's machines, he becomes sought after by differing sides in a protracted religious war.
The author creates a rich, believable world that is both ancient and technological, and a political structure ruled by com...more
The author creates a rich, believable world that is both ancient and technological, and a political structure ruled by com...more
The first novel in the trilogy was intriguing and inspired me to move on to the second. But I'm afraid the story bogged down in a morass of useless detail. World-building is one thing, but soporific minutiae is (are) another. The characters (two-dimensional, it is revealed) get bogged down in endless factions and the resultant palace intrigue. I kept expecting the Lollipop Guild to rear its ugly head and join the fray. I stopped before the end of book two and will not take it up again. Too many...more
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Since about 2000, book jackets have given his name as just Paul McAuley.
A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel.
McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings.
Since 2001, he has produced several SF-based tech...more
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A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history/alternate reality, and space travel.
McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings.
Since 2001, he has produced several SF-based tech...more
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