On
-
-
4.0 • 2 Ratings
-
-
- £0.99
-
- £0.99
Publisher Description
Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life.
And then one day Tighe falls off the wall. And falls, and falls, and falls ...
Lavishly praised everywhere from Asimov's magazine to Interzone, ON is proof positive that Adam Roberts is a new author whose potential for greatness is rapidly being realised.
ON is at once a vertiginous concept novel, a coming of age saga, a picaresque journey across a changed world and an epic adventure in the very best traditions of SF.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tighe lives in a hardscrabble village on the side of a great wall that stretches as far up and down as the eye can see -until one day, he falls off (gravity operates parallel to the ground) and down into a world he never could have imagined existed. Adam Roberts's (Salt) On tells the tale of how the young stranger comes to terms with life in a foreign land during wartime, when soldiers, travelers, monsters and oracles engage in bloody battles and the secret of the "worldwall" is waiting to be discovered.
Customer Reviews
htaehevets
This is an fantastic example of concept sci-fi.
Very well written, and a pleasure to read.
The ideas embodied in this book are amazing and mind expanding: I've read this once and can't wait to read it again!