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Tor Books
February 2014
On Sale: February 11, 2014
Featuring: Cooper
400 pages
ISBN: 0765334860
EAN: 9780765334862
Kindle: B00GL3OJY8
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Science Fiction | Fantasy
Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to
die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it
a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die
merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where
they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up
somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times .
. . until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the
gateway to True Death can be found. Wayfarers and pilgrims are drawn to the City, which is home
to murderous aristocrats, disguised gods and goddesses, a
sadistic faerie princess, immortal prostitutes and queens, a
captive angel, gangs of feral Death Boys and Charnel Girls .
. . and one very confused New Yorker. Late of Manhattan, Cooper finds himself in a City that is
not what it once was. The gateway to True Death is failing,
so that the City is becoming overrun by the Dying, who clot
its byzantine streets and alleys . . . and a spreading
madness threatens to engulf the entire metaverse. Richly imaginative, David Edison's The Waking Engine is a
stunning debut by a major new talent.
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