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The Inverted World

Christopher Priest

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Published 1974 by Faber & Faber · 256 pages

Hugo Nominee 1975
Science Fiction

Synopsis

Helward Mann lives in a city that crawls on rails across an alien landscape, driven by guilds of engineers who lay track ahead and reclaim it behind in an endless migration. As he joins the elite Future Surveyors, he discovers the terrifying physics of a world where space itself is distorted.

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Author Nationality

GB

ISBN

9780571104444

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