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Century Rain is a 2004 noir science fiction alternative history mystery novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds (ISBN 0-575-07436-1). Plot summary. Wendell Floyd is an expatriate American living in an alternative version of 1950s Paris. In this world, the Nazi invasion of France failed, and Hitler was deposed by the German High Command.
Non è da tutti concepire una storia come quella di “Century Rain”. Provo definire i punti principali della trama senza dare troppe anticipazioni. “Century Rain” è ambientato in un futuro in cui la Terra è stata distrutta dalla nanotecnologia.
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25 nov 2004 · In Alastair Reynolds' Century Rain, Earth is uninhabitable due to what is called the Nanocaust. It is 300 years in the future and something strange is discovered at the end of a wormhole, a 20th century version of Earth. What is the purpose of this Earth and the alternate timeline it has been set upon?
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Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger’s faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate ...
Part science fiction thriller, part interstellar adventure, and part noir crime, Century Rain is an astonishing international bestseller of “blistering powers and style” (SF Revu).
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Alastair Reynolds. Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 2009 - Fiction - 569 pages. Twenty-third-century Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland overrun by rogue nanotechnology. When archaeologist...
And Verity must find the device, and the man who plans to activate it, before it's too late -- for the past and the future of two worlds.Century Rain is a jaw-droppingly good SF thriller, packed with pace, adventure, brilliant storytelling and with twists that will keep you guessing to the end.
