Swiftly : A Novel
by
Adam Roberts
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Gollancz S.F.
ISBN-10
0575082348
ISBN-13
9780575082342
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Imprint
Gollancz
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2009
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
308 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 13.10 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Science fiction
Ksh 3,600.00
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A Wellsian sequel to Gulliver's Travels and a unique piece of SF literature all of its own.
It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves - the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work. But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants and invasion looms. In a world where humanity is both smaller and larger than it once was, love and hate loom large. Mankind discovers itself at the centre of scale. Lilliputians are twelve times smaller than us but there are those twelve times smaller than them, and twelve times smaller again and so on. And the scale of being goes up from Swift's giants also ... Adam Roberts has written both a rip roaring 19th century adventure, a love story and a thought-provoking pre-atomic SF novel about our place in the universe.
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