Theories Of Flight: Metrozone Book 2
By (Author) Simon Morden
Little, Brown Book Group
Orbit
28th June 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Winner of Philip K. Dick Award 2012
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 25mm
294g
THEOREM: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.
PROOF: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.THEOREM: The city is broken.PROOF: The people of the OutZone want what citizens of the Metrozone have. And then burn it to the ground. Now, with the heart of the city destroyed by the New Machine Jihad, the Outies finally see their chance.THEOREM: These events are not unconnected.PROOF: Someone is trying to kill Petrovitch and they're willing to sink the whole city to do it.This is a series not to be missed, and as I've had a chance to read the other two books, I can promise you that it's only going to get better - SFREVU
A soaring narrative - SCIFINOWThis second outing is just as exciting and downright entertaining as the first and is one you too should consider putting on your To-read lists - LEC BOOK REVIEWSDr Simon Morden is a bona fide rocket scientist, having degrees in geology and planetary geophysics, and is one of the few people who can truthfully claim to have held a chunk of Mars in his hands. Simon Morden lives in Gateshead with a fierce lawyer, two unruly children and a couple of miniature panthers.