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Chung Kuo Recast #7
The Broken Wheel
Under Threat
The year is 2207. Chung Kuo's perfect stasis is falling apart. The Seven's dominance is threatened by a series of terrorist attacks as the War of Two Directions intensifies. Howard DeVore, the Seven's greatest enemy, is masterminding the atrocities - but how can they hunt down a man who seems to be invulnerable?
Under Attack
Kim Ward, the Clay-born scientific genius, is attacked by a group of deadly assassins, bent on destroying his work. And a group of rich young American rebels intend to create Change. At any price.
The year is 2207. Chung Kuo's perfect stasis is falling apart. The Seven's dominance is threatened by a series of terrorist attacks as the War of Two Directions intensifies. Howard DeVore, the Seven's greatest enemy, is masterminding the atrocities - but how can they hunt down a man who seems to be invulnerable?
Under Attack
Kim Ward, the Clay-born scientific genius, is attacked by a group of deadly assassins, bent on destroying his work. And a group of rich young American rebels intend to create Change. At any price.
300 pages, ebook
Published November 7, 2013
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About the author
David Wingrove
51 books164 followersDavid Wingrove (born September 1954 in North Battersea, London) is a British science fiction writer. He is well-known as the author of the "Chung Kuo" novels (eight in total). He is also the co-author (with Rand and Robyn Miller) of the three "Myst" novels.
Wingrove worked in the banking industry for 7 years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.
He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca.
Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels.
He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was changed twice, becoming first A Spring Day at the Edge of the World and then finally Chung Kuo, under which title it was sold to 18 publishers throughout the world.
A prequel to the Chung Kuo series, called When China Comes, was released in May 2009 by Quercus Publishing, which also re-released the entire series: "The series has been recast in nineteen volumes, including a new prequel and a new final volume. After a series launch in May 2009, Quercus will embark on an ambitious publishing programme that will see all nineteen volumes available by the end of 2012."
He has plans for a further a novels, a a first person character novel called Dawn in Stone City and three very different novels: The Beast with Two Backs, Heaven's Bright Sun, and Roads to Moscow.
Wingrove worked in the banking industry for 7 years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.
He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca.
Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels.
He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was changed twice, becoming first A Spring Day at the Edge of the World and then finally Chung Kuo, under which title it was sold to 18 publishers throughout the world.
A prequel to the Chung Kuo series, called When China Comes, was released in May 2009 by Quercus Publishing, which also re-released the entire series: "The series has been recast in nineteen volumes, including a new prequel and a new final volume. After a series launch in May 2009, Quercus will embark on an ambitious publishing programme that will see all nineteen volumes available by the end of 2012."
He has plans for a further a novels, a a first person character novel called Dawn in Stone City and three very different novels: The Beast with Two Backs, Heaven's Bright Sun, and Roads to Moscow.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 24, 2018
All good stories must end. The writing and character development are still superb in this seventh book, but the pacing has become glacial. Nothing crucial has happened for the past couple of books and it feels like the author is milking every character and subplot dry. There's nothing left of the vigorous narrative of the first three books. As much as you get curious to know what will happen to Ben Shepherd or to the brain-wiring project at some point you need to move the main plot forward. I'm sure that the patient reader will be rewarded in the end, but that end is still 13 books away and at the current pace it feels like it may take three or four books for Kim Ward to even talk to Jelka Tolonen. Life is short.
July 10, 2019
Very good read. Big changes happen and Chung Kuo becomes an even more dangerous world for our characters, good, bad, and in between.
October 20, 2014
Another piece of the puzzle in the story of Chung Kuo. Devore's careful ploys are starting to unravel, new characters from America come into play, ambition and corruption are as high as ever, while the Seven's power is unable to stop the tide of change. People are not meant to live in a cage, they are more than the sum of bone and tissue and sinew: their soul is restless, unbound by the laws of flesh. And the planet-large white city of Chung Kuo faces the same problem as ever: overpopulation. Incredible rich language and imagery: Wingrove chooses to present his story offering us rich intricate calligraphy style still paintings combined with violent scenes of murder and death, in a Yin-Yang balance of life and death, of sorrow and joy. Simply beautiful.
October 18, 2017
Things to come
Old Chung Kuo gone, it beginning to disappear, and new one taking it's place... What is lurking in that future? Who knows...
Old Chung Kuo gone, it beginning to disappear, and new one taking it's place... What is lurking in that future? Who knows...
July 9, 2015
A good second volume if a bit less comprehensive in regards to the world building when compared to the first.
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