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Chung Kuo Recast #11
Auf einem Feuerrad - Die neunte Chronik von Chung Kuo
Nach dem Untergang der westlichen Zivilisation
Der Aufstieg Chinas zur Weltherrschaft
Eine Chronik in sechsehn Teilen
Er galt als einer der mächtigsten Gegner der Sieben: Howard DeVore, einst Major des Sicherheitsdienstes, später Saboteur und Initiator brutaler Anschläge.
Nach jahrelanger Jagd gelingt es Gregor Karr, dem treuen Agenten im Dienste des T'ang, ihn zu stellen und in einem großartigen Showdown zu besiegen.
An DeVores Tod glaubt man allerdings nur in Chung Kuo. In Wirklichkeit wurde eine Cyborg-Replik von ihm zerstört. Er selbst lebt in der Marskolonie und dirigiert von
dort aus ein mächtiges Wirtschaftsimperium. Sein Haß gegen die Sieben lodert weiter.
Er betrachtet es als sein höchstes Lebensziel, diese chinesischen Herrscher zu stürzen und ihr Reich zu vernichten, und er ist bereit, alles dafür zu opfern.
Science Fiction
Deutsche Erstausgabe
- GenresScience Fiction
430 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 15, 2019
About the author
David Wingrove
51 books164 followersDavid Wingrove (born September 1954 in North Battersea, London) is a British science fiction writer. He is well-known as the author of the "Chung Kuo" novels (eight in total). He is also the co-author (with Rand and Robyn Miller) of the three "Myst" novels.
Wingrove worked in the banking industry for 7 years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.
He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca.
Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels.
He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was changed twice, becoming first A Spring Day at the Edge of the World and then finally Chung Kuo, under which title it was sold to 18 publishers throughout the world.
A prequel to the Chung Kuo series, called When China Comes, was released in May 2009 by Quercus Publishing, which also re-released the entire series: "The series has been recast in nineteen volumes, including a new prequel and a new final volume. After a series launch in May 2009, Quercus will embark on an ambitious publishing programme that will see all nineteen volumes available by the end of 2012."
He has plans for a further a novels, a a first person character novel called Dawn in Stone City and three very different novels: The Beast with Two Backs, Heaven's Bright Sun, and Roads to Moscow.
Wingrove worked in the banking industry for 7 years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.
He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca.
Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels.
He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was changed twice, becoming first A Spring Day at the Edge of the World and then finally Chung Kuo, under which title it was sold to 18 publishers throughout the world.
A prequel to the Chung Kuo series, called When China Comes, was released in May 2009 by Quercus Publishing, which also re-released the entire series: "The series has been recast in nineteen volumes, including a new prequel and a new final volume. After a series launch in May 2009, Quercus will embark on an ambitious publishing programme that will see all nineteen volumes available by the end of 2012."
He has plans for a further a novels, a a first person character novel called Dawn in Stone City and three very different novels: The Beast with Two Backs, Heaven's Bright Sun, and Roads to Moscow.
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December 30, 2019
Instead of moving the story towards the begginings of a conclusion Wingrove actually introduces new subplots - and this is book #11 (!). At this point I couldn’t care less about Chen’s wife and children, or even about Chen himself, I just want things to move forward, one way or another. Why introduce the whole Thousand Eyes subplot *now*? Why bother us with Ikuro or Hanna when the freaking protagonist - the T’ang of City Europe - is entirely absent from the book? Dammit man, give us some hope that this story is going somewhere eventually. Still, 4/5 stars because of the sheer brilliance of the writing and world-building.
February 27, 2020
Very disappointing. As the 11th installment of a 20-something book series, it's fine. But it's very inconsequential, and there isn't anything resembling an attempt to have a standalone story. Upon a Wheel of Fire is a collection of middle chapters. Important in the long run maybe, but frustrating when such large periods of time keep passing between publication of volumes.
I made it this far, so I'm in it for the long haul. But I wish something had happened in this book, instead of people talking about what they might do in the future.
I made it this far, so I'm in it for the long haul. But I wish something had happened in this book, instead of people talking about what they might do in the future.
January 16, 2020
Not all is good in the Middle Kingdom.
Great Chung Kuo beginning to fall apart - firstly slowly, then more and more. And what can do simple and not so simple men who catch in this? To endure, to hope for more... And to retain their humanity.
Great Chung Kuo beginning to fall apart - firstly slowly, then more and more. And what can do simple and not so simple men who catch in this? To endure, to hope for more... And to retain their humanity.
December 19, 2023
Only 3 stars as this felt like somewhat of a holding pattern in the series. Enjoyable enough but lacking in dynamic story beats. Perhaps some of the chess pieces will spring into action in book 12?
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