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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Scott Warden es un hombre perseguido por el pasado... y pronto también por el futuro. En la Tailandia de comienzos del siglo XXI es un vago en una comunidad costera de expatriados, cuando es testigo de un acontecimiento imposible: la aparición en el boscoso interior de un pilar de piedra de casi setenta metros. Su llegada colapsa los árboles en un cuarto de kilómetro alrededor de su base. Parece estar compuesto de una exótica forma de materia y la inscripción tallada muestra la conmemoración de una victoria militar... que tendrá lugar dentro de dieciséis años.
The Chronoliths is a striking if occasionally bleak tale of time and causality that opens in the very near future. The world is going straight to hell, with social and economic crises nearly everywhere. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past-and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory--sixteen years in the future. Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok-obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a final battle with the future. The Chronoliths is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2002 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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