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City at the end of time

One of the masters of SF returns with an incredible new novel - the SF publishing event of the year.

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  • ""Un grupo de personajes desajustados de Seattle (Ginny, Jack y Daniel) tiene extrañas visiones de un lugar llamado ""el Kalpa"". El nombre resulta ser el de una ciudad al final del tiempo, cien mil millones de años en el futuro, el último bastión de la realidad ante el inexplicable ""Tifón"", una grave alteración de las leyes de la física que ha consumido el resto del antiguo universo. La narración sigue dos caminos, uno situado en el moderno presente (o en un futuro muy cercano) y otro miles de años en el futuro, donde existe el Kalpa, la Ciudad al Final Tiempo. Como las historias apenas se tocan entre sí, el autor contrasta los personajes modernos con los que son sus paralelos en el futuro lejano."--Amazon.com."
  • "One of the masters of SF returns with an incredible new novel - the SF publishing event of the year."@en
  • ""In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people - Ginny, Jack, and Daniel - dream of a doomed, decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny's and Jack's dreams overtake them without warning, leaving their bodies behind while carrying their consciousnesses forward, into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa - a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba - who have been genetically retro-engineered to possess qualities of ancient humanity. As for Daniel: He dreams of an empty darkness - all that his future holds." "But more than dreams link Ginny, Jack, and Daniel. They are fate-shifters, born with the ability to skip like stones across the surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum-runners that persist unchanged through all versions of time.""
  • "In a post-human future, one city, guarded by reality generators and surrounded by the terrible maelstrom of Chaos, is the sole bastion of order. In our time, three young people--Ginny, Jack, and Daniel--who can alter the course of fate, a murky past, and the dreams of a decaying city at the end of time are brought together by a newspaper ad and into the hands of collectors of their kind. Back in the future, the strange characters include keepers and the Librarian, who seek to protect history, and others who welcome Chaos. As the lines of fate and possibility collapse toward inevitability, the three fateshifters resort to the tenuous protection of a Seattle warehouse full of books as a storm that threatens to destroy everything approaches. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born. If the trio survives and holds onto memory through the disaster, memory will begin again, the long decay of reality will end, and mysteries will be solved in the eye of the storm."
  • "Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born."@en
  • "Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born."
  • ""Es gibt sie, die Stadt am Ende der Zeit ..." ... zumindest behauptet das eine skurrile Kleinanzeige in einer Seattler Zeitung, die auch nur von leicht skurrilen Menschen gelesen wird. Doch als drei dieser Leser auf die Anzeige antworten, beginnt eines der fantastischsten Abenteuer, das je erzählt wurde. Denn es gibt sie wirklich: die Stadt am Ende der Zeit. Eine Stadt, deren Technologie so weit fortgeschritten ist, dass man sie von Magie kaum mehr unterscheiden kann. Eine Stadt, in die sich die letzten Lebewesen eines sterbenden Universums geflüchtet haben. Eine Stadt, die nun Kontakt mit der Gegenwart aufnimmt - um zu retten, was wir als "Mensch" bezeichnen. Greg Bear wurde 1951 in San Diego geboren und studierte dort englische Literatur. Seit 1975 als freier Schriftsteller tätig, gilt er heute als einer der ideenreichsten wissenschaftlich orientierten Autoren der Gegenwart. Seine zuletzt veröffentlichten Romane 'Das Darwin-Virus', 'Die Darwin-Kinder', 'Jäger' sowie 'Stimmen' wurden zu internationalen Bestsellererfolgen."

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  • "Science fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"

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  • "Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit : Roman"
  • "Die Stadt am Ende der Zeit Roman"
  • "Gorod v kont︠s︡e vremen"
  • "La Ciudad al final del tiempo"
  • "City at the end of time"@en
  • "City at the end of time"
  • "La cité à la fin des temps"
  • "La ciudad al final del tiempo"
  • "La ciudad al final del tiempo"@es

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