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The final book in David Wingrove's critically acclaimed science fiction masterpiece is set among the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine," where former freedom-fighter Emily Ascher now serves as mother to the orphan boys of a war-devastated land. But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born, a baby girl smothered and thrown away, but not yet dead, and a baby boy delivered into a hostile land, yet determined to fight for his life. They are part of a new generation who will see more death than any who have gone before.



Although peace seems to reign, the puppet master of an army of giant androids plans one final absolute destruction. And although the great T'ang, the dictators of Earth, are gone, mega corporation GenSyn remains*as does its pleasure drug which will turn Chung Kuo into a funeral pyre. Now the only escape lies in sending survivors toward new stars, or joining Emily Ascher in a battle for liberty and a new Earth.

In addition to the seven novels in the Chung Kuo saga, The Middle Kingdom; The Broken Wheel; The White Mountain; The Stone Within; Beneath the Tree of Heaven; White Moon, Red Dragon; and Days of Bitter Strength, David Wingrove is the co-author (with Brian Aldiss) of the Hugo Award-winning nonfiction book Trillion Year Spree, a critical history of science fiction, and with Robyn and Rand Miller of Myst: The Book of Atrus.  He lives in North London with his wife, who is also a novelist, and four daughters.


From the Paperback edition.