Description

On a dying Earth’s last city, Stefan Advani—part social historian, part outlaw, part prisoner—records the strange history of Shadrapar, a place built from the ruins of countless civilizations and sustained by the debris of what came before. As he moves through deserts, jungles, and buried corridors, he confronts the living remnants of that past: monsters, mutants, and the unsettling forces that keep the world from ending cleanly. Told like a historical memoir, his account turns survival into a question of ethics, memory, and power—who gets to define “civilization,” and what it costs to preserve it. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s signature blend of vivid world-building and propulsive, darkly hopeful imagination makes this an engrossing, mirror-to-our-own-history tale of resilience at the edge of extinction.

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Head of Zeus

Published Oct 3, 2019

624 pages

ISBN: 9781788547383

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Details

First Published

2019

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Violence
War/Trauma
Death/Grief