Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440207610ISBN:0440207614
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine Creases. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 704 p. Chung Kuo, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440207610ISBN:0440207614
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. (A87_3/9)Book is in good condition. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 704 p. Chung Kuo, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440207610ISBN:0440207614
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: 654 pages. The Year is 2190. China has once again become a world unto itself and this time its only boundary is space...The world is City Earth, ... read more
Description: Fair. Ready to read. Book has moderate wear with some use to cover and binding. No missing pages but may have some markings. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440207610ISBN:0440207614
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. No marks on pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 704 p. Chung Kuo, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint. 1st reprint
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440207610ISBN:0440207614
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 704 p. Chung Kuo, 1. Audience: General/trade. Embossed book plate.. read more
"Wow, science fiction is known for being dismissive of women but this one takes the cake. Page 70 and the few (very few) women characters have ALL been whores, except one who dies in childbirth in a flashback. This is the future ... spare me."
Look, he creates an interesting - if fairly unbelievable - world, but then he fills it with about half a billion characters many of whom never do anything interesting. The series has some fairly brutally violent sexual scenes in it, which I can cope with (barely) if they serve an integral part of the story being told, but here they seemed irrelevant, arbitrary, and gratuitous. And they did turn my stomach.
And it does not go unnoticed that the author claims that 90% of the earth has been covered by a ubiquitous city, and then about 1% of the novel actually happens there. Almost every major scene is set "somewhere else". So in the end we have to take this world-city almost on hearsay - with very little detail of it.
I finished it unenthralled; given that most reviewers seem to believe that the first was brilliant and the rest of the series went downhill, I'll be giving the rest a miss."
"David Wingrove poured his heart out into this vast story of the future where China has dominated the world and has set up a neo-classical system with all the sci-fi technology at its use. Things have been this way for 200 years, but there is trouble in the Peach Garden (the Chinese version of Utopia), where small bands of white skinned renegades are eager to launch their rebellion against their Han overlords.
This is Book ONE, incorrectly named in the preview as Book 3 for some reason, and if you like Sci Fi, with a Chinese edge, you will be eating peaches for awhile. There are 7 books in all and he is still going.
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