David Zindell

Neverness


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      DAVID ZINDELL

      Neverness

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events of localities is entirely coincidental.

      

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      First published in Great Britain by Grafton 1988

      Copyright © David Zindell 1988

      David Zindell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007305179

      Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2016 ISBN: 9780007397952

      Version: 2016-09-01

       Praise

      Neverness is Zindell’s highly acclaimed first novel. A reviewer in the New Scientist wrote of it in 1992: ‘David Zindell writes of interstellar mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read’.

      His second novel, The Broken God, Book One of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, is a sequel to Neverness. It has been hailed as Dune for the 1990s and was equally well-received: ‘SF as it ought to be: challenging, imaginative, thought-provoking and well-written. Zindell has placed himself at the forefront of literary SF’.

       Times Literary Supplement

      The Wild, Book Two of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens was also published to great acclaim: ‘A disturbing vision of the impending collapse of a transgalactic society … the ideas are hard SF with philosophical undertones, and the story is compelling’.

       New Scientist

      Zindell has completed A Requiem for Homo Sapiens with War in Heaven, available now, in hardback. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

      For Melody

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       8 Kweitkel

       9 Yuri the Wise

       10 The Aklia

       11 The Old Man of the Cave

       12 The Little Death

       13 Hunger

       14 The Radio

       15 The Eyes of a Scryer

       16 The Death of a Pilot

       17 Agathange

       18 The Tycho’s Conjecture

       19 The Parable of the Mad King

       20 The Rings of Qallar

       21 The Eyes of a Child

       22 The Hanuman-Ordando Paradox

       23 Plutonium Spring

       24 Deus ex Machina

       25 The Great Ocean of Truth

       26 Kalinda of the Flowers