CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history, it is something altogether stranger.' IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance. 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. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. 'Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.

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Two versions of humanity-the Threshers, who live in a ring of habitats encircling Earth, and the Slashers, who inhabit the outer planets-each blame the other for the disaster. Three centuries from now, a technologically induced catastrophe, the Nanocaust, makes Earth uninhabitable. ) creates yet another quirky, noirish vision of humanity's future. In his latest SF novel, Reynolds ( Absolution Gap

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