explorer / books · 1975
The Inverted World
Christopher Priest’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1974 by Faber & Faber · 256 pages
Hugo · 1975
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Synopsis
Helward Mann lives in a city that crawls on rails across an alien landscape, driven by guilds of engineers who lay track ahead and reclaim it behind in an endless migration. As he joins the elite Future Surveyors, he discovers the terrifying physics of a world where space itself is distorted.
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