Lavie Tidhar
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Neom: A Novel from the World of Central Station -- Lavie Tidhar - Paperback
Today, Neom is a utopian dream--a megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative novel from the award-winning universe of Central Station, far-future Neom is already old. Sentient machines roam the desert searching for purpose, works of art can be more deadly than weapons, and the spark of a long-overdue revolution is in the wind. Only the rekindling of an impossible love affair may slow the inevitable sands of time. "This is Tidhar at his best: the crazily proliferating imagination, the textures, the ideas, the dazzling storytelling. A brilliant portrait of community and its possibilities."
--Adam Roberts, author of Purgatory Mount The city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. It is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful; an urban sprawl along the Red Sea; and a port of call between Earth and the stars. In the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry, unnamed robot has unearthed one of the region's biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man. In Neom, childhood affection is rekindling between loyal shurta-officer Nasir and hardworking flower-seller Mariam. But Nasu, a deadly terrorartist, has come to the city with missing memories and unfinished business. Just one robot can change a city's destiny with a single rose--especially when that robot is in search of lost love. Lavie Tidhar's (Unholy Land, The Escapement) newest lushly immersive novel, Neom, which includes a guide to the Central Station-verse, is at turns gritty, comedic, transportive, and fascinatingly plausible.
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 11/09/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.59w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781616963828
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 124
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 34
Foreword 10/27/2022
--Adam Roberts, author of Purgatory Mount The city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. It is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful; an urban sprawl along the Red Sea; and a port of call between Earth and the stars. In the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry, unnamed robot has unearthed one of the region's biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man. In Neom, childhood affection is rekindling between loyal shurta-officer Nasir and hardworking flower-seller Mariam. But Nasu, a deadly terrorartist, has come to the city with missing memories and unfinished business. Just one robot can change a city's destiny with a single rose--especially when that robot is in search of lost love. Lavie Tidhar's (Unholy Land, The Escapement) newest lushly immersive novel, Neom, which includes a guide to the Central Station-verse, is at turns gritty, comedic, transportive, and fascinatingly plausible.
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 11/09/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.59w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781616963828
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 124
Booklist 10/15/2022 pg. 34
Foreword 10/27/2022