Neverness David Zindell 9780007305179 [USED COPY]

An epic masterwork of science fiction, Neverness is a stand-alone novel from one of the most important talents in the genre.

The universe of Neverness is intriguingly complex and filled with extraordinary beings. There are the Alaloi, whose genes have 'backmutated' so that they look like Neanderthals... the Order of Pilots, which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of 'thickspace'... the Solid State Entity, a nebula-sized brain made up of moon-sized biocomputers...

Against this backdrop stands Mallory Ringer, the headstrong novitiate of the Order of Pilots, who, against all odds, navigates a maze of interspatial passageways to penetrate the Solid State Entity. There he makes a stunning discovery. A discovery that could unlock the secret of immortality hidden among the Alaloi.

After studying philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, and physics, David Zindell moved to the Rocky Mountains to devote himself to skiing, rock climbing, and writing. Writing won out and became the passion of his life. His story 'Shanidar' won the Writers of the Future contest, and he was nominated for a Hugo award for best new writer of the year. His internationally bestselling novel Neverness was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clark Award. His successive works include the Requiem For Homo Sapiens trilogy and epic Grail quest, The Ea Cycle. His most recent novels were The Idiot Gods, which tells of the orca Arjuna's quest to speak to the human race about the future of life on earth, and The Remembrancer's Tale, a return to the Neverness universe.

'Zindell makes you think'
New Scientist

'Philip K. Dick would have been proud to conjure up such philiosophies'
Manchester Evening News

'A thick, lush, vivid, panoramic view of evolved humans in an evolving universe far in the future'
Twilight Zone

'Excellent hard science fiction... a brilliant novel'
Orson Scott Card, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction