War in Heaven. David Zindell
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DAVID ZINDELL
War in Heaven
BOOK THREE
of A Requiem for 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 or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
Copyright © David Zindell 1998
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Gene Wolfe declared Zindell ‘one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson – perhaps the finest’. His first novel, Neverness, was published to great acclaim. A reviewer in the New Scientist wrote of it in 1992: ‘David Zindell writes of interstella mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read.’
The Broken God, Book One of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, is a sequel to Neverness. It has been hailed as Dune for the 1990s and was equally well-received: ‘SF as it ought to be: challenging, imaginative, thought-provoking and well-written. Zindell has placed himself at the forefront of literary SF.’
Times Literary Supplement
The Wild, Book Two of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, was also published to great acclaim: ‘A disturbing vision of the impending collapse of a transgalactic society … the ideas are hard SF with philosophical undertones, and the story is compelling.’
New Scientist
With War in Heaven Zindell completes A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, bringing to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing journey in modern science fiction. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
CONTENTS
Chapter I: In the Hall of the Lords
Chapter III: The Two Hundred Lightships
Chapter VI: The Lords of Neverness
Chapter XI: The Paradox of Ahimsa
Chapter XII: The First Pillar of Ringism
Chapter XIV: The Face of a Man
Chapter XVII: A Piece of Bread
Chapter XIX: The Breath of the World
Chapter XXI: The Battle of Ten Thousand Suns
Chapter XXII: The Universal Computer
Chapter XXIII: The Face of God