The Snow - Brossura

Roberts, Adam

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0575076518 ISBN 13: 9780575076518

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 2005

Riassunto

The new Adam Roberts novel is a story of global apocalypse, old hatreds and new beginnings. It is his best novel to date.

And this is how the world will end ...

'The snow started falling on the sixth of September, soft noiseless flakes filling the sky like a swarm of white moths, or like static interference on your TV screen - whichever metaphor, nature or technology, you find the more evocative. Snow everywhere, all through the air, with that distinctive sense of hurrying that a vigorous snowfall brings with it. Everything in a rush, busy-busy snowflakes. And, simultaneously, paradoxically, everything is hushed, calm, as quiet as cancer, as white as death.

And at the beginning people were happy.'

But the snow doesn't stop. It falls and falls and falls. Until it lies three miles thick across the whole of the earth. Six billion people have died. Perhaps 150,000 survive. But those 150,000 need help, they need support, they need organising, governing.

And so the lies begin. Lies about how the snow started. Lies about who is to blame. Lies about who is left. Lies about what really lies beneath.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The best novel yet from 'the king of high concept SF' (GUARDIAN)

L'autore:

Adam Roberts is commonly described as one of the UK's most important writers of SF. He is the author of numerous novels and literary parodies. He is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University and has written a number of critical works on both SF and 19th Century poetry. He is a contributor to the SF ENCYCLOPEDIA.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0575076518
• ISBN 13: 9780575076518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368