At the Edge of the Game

by Gareth Power

Thousands of years after setting out on a voyage of galactic discovery, the Unquiet Spirit returns to Earth. The planet is renewed, pristine. The human population is down to just one man.

Razed almost totally is the legacy of the human age. But a rusted ship drifts in a fjord, its hold full of the ancient dead.

And a letter, miraculously preserved, provides a key to the past.

But what is that past?

Is it the Dublin of George Holden, where climatic and political catastrophe mean the only hope of survival is a trek across a devastated land?

Or is it Dublin Far City, shimmering capital of the world, set in the salt desert at the foot of the African Wall?

Either way, the world seems to be coming to its end.

208 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 11, 2011

Reviews

[Ray Daley · Rating 1 out of 5]

SUPER confusing with not 1 or 2 but about 4 different narratives to try and follow. Muddled my way to the end where in the final chapter the different narratives are explained but it was too little too late.

The book isn't formatted well, it needs more demarkation between the various different narratives of living in the present, the protaganists book within a book, the future timeline and his time in the Army.

Way too confusing to follow, I only managed to finish it by skipping the future and book narratives.

[Orange · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, it was confusing, but still, it was an interesting story.