Cage of Souls Cage of Souls

Cage of Souls

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020

    • 4.3 • 9 Ratings
    • $6.99

Publisher Description

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author.

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity.



Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants.



The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2019
April 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
608
Pages
PUBLISHER
Head of Zeus
SELLER
Bookwire Gesellschaft zum Vertrieb digitaler Medien mbH
SIZE
5.8
MB

Customer Reviews

enter i hardly know 'er ,

definition of juggling too many plates

there are so many ideas and places and adjacent stories introduced that the actual story taking place seems duller by comparison. most of these digressions are only briefly alluded to or expanded on, which may be why they’re so interesting in the first place (this was simultaneously an incredibly frustrating detail throughout). as my introduction to his writing the book fell somewhere between good and okay for me. have to see if this sort of narrative structure is just endemic to his work or a one off.

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