The fifth installment of Wingrove's saga of a Sinocized twenty-second-century Earth concerns the continuing crumbling of Han rule. Mars revolts and loses most of its population except for the African settlements in its desert. City North America is beset by violence even before it is largely destroyed by a falling orbital settlement. Every other city has its share of riots, assassinations, and terrorism wrought by both rulers and ruled, and the T'ang of City Africa turns into a homicidal maniac in his ambition to become emperor. Wingrove's brisk pacing, abundance of world-building detail, and intriguing characters continue to propel his big story forward. The sheer accumulation of events and characters does, however, make each successive volume a worse place to start the whole shebang than was the preceding one--and Wingrove plans three more. Add this one where its predecessors have been popular. Roland Green
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A Revolution is brewing on planet Mars in the year 2211 resulting from the birth of the special child, who caused a disruption in the ruling dictatorship of the Seven T'ang, led by the masked hero, Hans Ebert, whose goal is to free the shackled masses. Reprint.
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The fifth installment of Wingrove's saga of a Sinocized twenty-second-century Earth concerns the continuing crumbling of Han rule. Mars revolts and loses most of its population except for the African settlements in its desert. City North America is beset by violence even before it is largely destroyed by a falling orbital settlement. Every other city has its share of riots, assassinations, and terrorism wrought by both rulers and ruled, and the T'ang of City Africa turns into a homicidal maniac in his ambition to become emperor. Wingrove's brisk pacing, abundance of world-building detail, and intriguing characters continue to propel his big story forward. The sheer accumulation of events and characters does, however, make each successive volume a worse place to start the whole shebang than was the preceding one--and Wingrove plans three more. Add this one where its predecessors have been popular. Roland Green
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A Revolution is brewing on planet Mars in the year 2211 resulting from the birth of the special child, who caused a disruption in the ruling dictatorship of the Seven T'ang, led by the masked hero, Hans Ebert, whose goal is to free the shackled masses. Reprint.