Chasing the Phoenix

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Michael Swanwick

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Surplus came down out of the north dressed in a Mongolian shaman's robes covered with multicoloured ribbons and hammered copper disks. He was leading a yak adorned with red tassels and tiny silver bells. The yak carried a bundle swaddled in cloth and carefully tied up with ropes. In the bundle was the corpse of his friend Aubrey Darger. In the distant future, Surplus descends from the mountains into China, seeking the Infallible Physician for a cure. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems. Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered, intelligent, anthropomorphic dog, are a pair of con men who travel to what was once China, where they pretend to be Immortals. They convince the ambitious, mysterious, and conquest-driven Hidden Emperor to once again reunite China under one ruler - with their aid, of course - and find his elusive Phoenix Bride. Against all odds, and much to their puzzled surprise, the scheme begins to succeed.

Author Biography:

Michael Swanwick is the winner of five Hugo Awards for his short fiction. His several novels include the Nebula-winning Stations of the Tide, the time-travel novel Bones of the Earth, and the "industrial fantasy" novels The Iron Dragon's Daughter and The Dragons of Babel. He lives in Philadelphia.

Release date Australia

August 30th, 2016

Author

Michael Swanwick

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

320

Dimensions

154x233x22

ISBN-13

9780765380913

Product ID

23910078

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