Cage Of Souls

Description: The Sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapur, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of its long-dead progenitors, Shadrapur is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will treat with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

Review: PRAISE FOR ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY: 'A timely warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence and super weapons in the hands of unscrupulous powers' Guardian, on Dogs of War. 'A phenomenal author, a modern powerhouse of fiction ... Speculative fiction at its best' Starburst magazine. 'Superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio' Financial Times, on Children of Time. 'Thoughtful and emotionally affecting, yet also exciting and unpredictable. 5*' SFX. 'A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human' Patrick Ness, on Children of Time.

Author Biography: Adrian Tchaikovsky is a keen live role-player and occasional actor, fantasy author and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth. Epic, far-future SF from an award-winning author.