![]() Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum. Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. The only alternative to progress is death. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the "optimum" into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. ![]() ![]() Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. ![]() ![]() Featured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels Winner of the British Science Fiction Award Nominated for the Hugo Award The "devilishly entertaining" masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a city moving through a strange, dystopian world-from the multi-award-winning author of The Prestige ( Time Out New York ) The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. ![]()
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