Swiftly
A Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:15th Jan '09
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A Wellsian sequel to Gulliver's Travels and a unique piece of SF literature all of its own.
It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves - the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work.
But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants and invasion looms. In a world where humanity is both smaller and larger than it once was, love and hate loom large.
Mankind discovers itself at the centre of scale. Lilliputians are twelve times smaller than us but there are those twelve times smaller than them, and twelve times smaller again and so on. And the scale of being goes up from Swift's giants also ...
Adam Roberts has written both a rip roaring 19th century adventure, a love story and a thought-provoking pre-atomic SF novel about our place in the universe.
ISBN: 9780575082342
Dimensions: 199mm x 154mm x 26mm
Weight: 312g
368 pages