Description
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
Author: Geoff Ryman
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780312261214
ISBN10: 0312261217
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Cyberpunk
About the Author
Geoff Ryman is the author of 253, Was, The Child Garden, and The Unconquered Country. He has won the World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and The British Science Fiction Association Award. He lives in London, England
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