Chung Kuo Recast series by David Wingrove (#01-4)
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Overview: Born and raised in London, David Wingrove gave up a career in banking to return to studying, graduating with First Class Honours in English and American literature.
Genre: Fantasy
#1 – Son of Heaven:
The year is 2085, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in ’43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world’s financial markets. He saw what was coming – and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming – quite literally – across the plain towards him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding ‘World of Levels’ a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch’un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced order. But a civil war looms, and Jake will find himself at the heart of the struggle for the future.
#2 – Daylight on Iron Mountain
WAR APPROACHES: But life in the world of levels continues. No hint of war, or want, or discontent can infiltrate the oppressive, ordered society that replaces the world Jake Reed once knew. Since the first airships rolled over the horizon, nothing has been the same. His new life means new thinking, new customs, a new way of behaving, and with his every move scrutinized, Jake can only serve the bureaucracy of new China. But he is not the only citizen who feels discontent with the anodyne new order.
#3 – The Middle Kingdom:
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. The year is 2196. After more than a century of peace and stability, Chung Kuo – the great Empire of Ice controlled by seven ruling kings, the T’ang – has finally been shaken. Lwo Kang, Minister of the Edict – the legal instrument that prevents change – has been assassinated; blown away while in the imperial solarium. As the T’ang strive to maintain peace through what many see as a stagnating tyranny – their seven great mile-high, continent-spanning cities descend into chaos. As a small group of European elite, calling themselves the Dispersionists, seize the opportunity to effect change, so others emerge, like the politically-motivated Ping Tiao, the Sons of Benjamin Franklin – rich sons of powerful men who wish to re-establish the American Empire – and The Black Hand, brutal killers from amongst the teeming dispossessed. But the assassination was orchestrated by those far closer to the ruling power; far closer to those in ‘The Above’, sparking a devastating conflict and the world-shattering War of Two Directions.
#4 – Ice and Fire:
Spring 2201 – Spring 2203: The T’ang who make up the ruling Seven are struggling to maintain stasis and prevent change, as the ""War That Wasn’t A War"" is fought within the levels of Chung Kuo’s great world-spanning City: a war fought not with armies on battlefields but with an inventive evil – with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings. Adding to the pressure for change is the existence of a document that charts the true history of this world, not the version invented and policed by the Ministry – the ""Thousand Eyes"" – who have, for so long, maintained this dark shadow at the very heart of Chung Kuo. Its discovery by the Dispersionists will fuel their ardent desire for change and for an end to Han rule. Lined up against the Dispersionists are a handful of men utterly loyal to the Seven – men like General Tolonen, along with the two men he has recruited from the Lowers, Gregor Karr and Kao Chen. When Tolonen destroys the newly-built generation-starship, The New Hope, he will change Chung Kuo for good by declaring war on the Dispertionists.
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