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Chasm City
by Alastair Reynolds
ISBN: 0441009123
ISBN-13: 9780441009121
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
On a mission to hunt down the man who killed his employer, bodyguard Tanner Mirabel travels from his home planet of Sky's Edge to the fabled opulence of Chasm City. Frozen for the fifteen years that the journey takes, he wakes with a slight case of amnesia and discovers that a number of things have changed, including Chasm City itself. As Mirabel struggles to recover his memory and tracks his target through the twisted landscape, he is confronted by a city is slowly dying from a devastating plague that infected and horrifically damaged everything from people and electronics to the very building structures that house them.
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"An intelligent, complicated and deliciously convoluted novel, CHASM CITY reminds the reader again and again that fiction isn't only about the destination. For a book to really work on all levels, the journey must be fascinating, as well. In CHASM CITY the journey is riveting." -- Linda Richards
-- January Magazine
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.85 pounds
Pages: 524
Publisher's Notes
Tanner Mirabel ventures through the dark underside of Chasm City, a once utopian city overun by a vicious virus known as the Melding Plague, in pursuit of a lowlife postmortal and comes face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that everyone would do anything to keep hidden.
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Chasm City
Reynolds, Alastair
New York: Ace Books, 2002. 1st Edition. Fine in fine DJ. Minimal shelf wear. Really good condition, unread. Remainder mark. Cover art by Chris Moore.. First Thus. Hardcover. Neuwertig/Sehr guter Umschlag. 1.61 x 9.24 x 6.38. ( more information)
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Reynolds, Alastair
New York: Ace Books, 2002. 1st Edition. Fine in fine DJ. Minimal shelf wear. Really good condition, unread. Remainder mark. Cover art by Chris Moore.. First Thus. Hardcover. Sehr gut/Sehr guter Umschlag. 1.61 x 9.24 x 6.38. ( more information)
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Reynolds, Alastair
New York, NY, U.S.A: Ace Books, 2002. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Complete, straight , tight, minor edgewear, gently read. DJ some edgewear. 1st prtg. . ISBN: 0441009123. ( more information)
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Ace [0-441-00912-3] 2002, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Near fine in dust jacket. . . . (Science Fiction). ( more information)
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Reynolds, Alastair
Ace Hardcover,, 2002. First printing, thus. Hardcover. As New. A beautiful copy with first printing line intact. This is absolutely like new in an absolutely like new DJ. There are no problems to list. No remainder marks. DJ is not price clipped. This is simply a perfect copy. ( more information)
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Reynolds, Alastair
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 2002. Author's second novel after Revelation Space.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. ( more information)
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CHASM CITY
Reynolds, Alastair
New York: Ace Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0441009123 . Cover Art; Spine ends & corners of book cover have extremely light bumping & rubbing. Red paper covered boards have a black paper spine with bronze gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. "The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from its people to the very buildings they inhabit - only the most wretched, grim sort of existence remains." . ( more information)
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Reynolds, Alastair
New York: Ace Books, (2002.) . First US printing. . Very near fine in a like dustjacket. . The author's second book. Sequel to 'Revelation Space.' "The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet - has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from its people to the very buildings they inhabit - only the most wretched, grim sort of existence remains." 524 pp. ( more information)
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