Paul J McAuley
1) Confluence
Author
Publisher
SFBC
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Confluence is a man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micromachines and then thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is also the home of Yama, who was found as an infant floating down the river and raised by the prelate of Aeolis. Yama is the last remaining scion of The Builders, and now, awed...