The Middle Kingdom
David Wingrove,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Atlantic Books Ltd
David Wingrove,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Atlantic Books Ltd
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780857897084 (085789708X)
Publish date: October 1st 2012
Publisher: Corvus
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Series: Chung Kuo (#1)
Now past the prequels, The Middle Kingdom begins about 100 years where Daylight on Iron Mountain left off. A new cast of characters is introduced. The legacy of the main characters from the prequels is so muted I’m not sure there was much point in learning about them. It takes awhile to get a fee...
This was, hands down, one of the three most vile books I've ever read in my life. It's not science fiction or Chinoiserie, as it pretends to be; it's torture-porn of the very nastiest sort. Apart from that, it's quite poorly written, and as science fiction it's grade "Z" at best.An absolutely disgus...
This was, hands down, one of the three most vile books I've ever read in my life. It's not science fiction or Chinoiserie, as it pretends to be; it's torture-porn of the very nastiest sort. Apart from that, it's quite poorly written, and as science fiction it's grade "Z" at best.An absolutely disgus...
Ouch, this will teach me to grab books at the used bookstore without checking it out properly first, especially on Goodreads! Quite excited about my 'find', thinking I had bought a speculative fiction novel set in medieval era China, I searched the ISBN # only to find from the reviews that it is app...
This is the first doorstopper of a book in a multi-volume epic; I believe I read the first three or so, years ago. The basic premise is that the world is dominated in the future by a global Chinese empire. The setting is a high-tech futuristic one with a culture that has inexplicably reverted to dyn...
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