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The Curve of the Earth - (Metrozone) by Simon Morden (Paperback)

The Curve of the Earth - (Metrozone) by  Simon Morden (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Welcome to the MetrozoneDpost-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops, and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: he's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Welcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had. Armed with a genius-level intellect, extensive cybernetic replacements, a built-in AI with god-like capabilities and a plethora of Russian swearwords -- he's saved this city from ruin more than once. He's also made a few enemies in the process -- Reconstruction America being one of them. So when his adopted daughter Lucy goes missing, he's got a clue who's responsible. And there's no way he can let them get away with it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Morden has built a fully realized, believable, post-apocalyptic world and populated it with full-bodied characters... He's also completely engaging and so compelling you don't dare look away from him, for fear you might miss something.--<i><b>Booklist (Starred Review)</b></i><br><br>Off the wall, as any good science fiction should be.--<i><b>Sunday Business Post Magazine</b></i><br><br>Small, immoral, likeably unlikeable, Petrovitch steps fully formed onto the neon slick streets of London as if on the run from a classic anime...--<i><b>Jon Courtenay Grimwood, award-winning author of the Arabesk Trilogy on Equations of Life</b></i><br><br>This is British sci-fi at its hard-boiled best, and it's worth reading just for the irascible Petrovitch: a diplomat lacking diplomacy, who delights in confronting the idiocy of the world around him.--<i><b>The Guardian on The Curve of the Earth</b></i><br><br>With <i>Equations Of Life</i>, Morden has got hold of the comfortable old beta-tested cyberpunk genre by the scruff of its digital neck and released it in a smooth alpha version ready to take on all comers in the new age. I never thought I'd want to know what happens next to a smart-mouth anti-hero heart-attack victim in a ruined Metrozone city - but I do.<br>--<i><b>Peter F. Hamilton</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dr. Simon Morden</b> holds degrees in geology and planetary geophysics. He was born in Gateshead, England and now resides in Worthing, England. Find out more about Simon Morden at www.simonmorden.com.

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