The Broken God. David Zindell
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DAVID ZINDELL
The Broken God
BOOK ONE
of A Requiem far Homo Sapiens
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events of localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993
Copyright © David Zindell 1993
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David Zindell’s short story ‘Shanidar’ was a prizewinning entry in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. He was nominated for the ‘best new writer’ Hugo Award in 1986. Gene Wolfe declared Zindell was ‘one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’. His first novel, Neverness, was widely praised:
‘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 and Science Fiction
‘A victorious book, lingering and lithe and rich’
John Clute Interzone
In October 1992, a reviewer in the New Scientist referred to ‘the brilliant Neverness, in which David Zindell writes of interstellar mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read’
The Broken God is Zindell’s second novel and a sequel to Neverness. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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