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The People of the Ruins
Edward Shanks
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Paperback. Series: The Radium Age Science Fiction Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 199.
Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later -- in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten ... Read more
Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later -- in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful. That is, until northern English and Welsh tribes threaten ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Red Lemonade United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Radium Age Science Fiction Series
Condition
New
Weight
199g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935869580
SKU
V9781935869580
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