Swiftly

It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves - the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work. But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants and invasion looms. In a world where humanity is both smaller and larger than it once was, love and hate loom large. Mankind discovers itself at the centre of scale. Lilliptians are twelve times smaller than us but there are those twelve times smaller than them, and twelve times smaller again and so on. And the scale of being goes up from Swift's giants also ...Adam Roberts has written both a rip roaring 19th century adventure, a love story and a thought-provoking pre-atomic SF novel about our place in the universe.

ISBN 0575082348   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780575082342 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 238 Publisher Orion Publishing Co   Published in London Imprint Gollancz   Series title Gollancz S.F. Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 15 Jan 2009   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 823.92   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 368

"A worthy science fictional successor to Swift's indispensable masterwork... equal parts adventure story and social commentary. Its philosophy is Swift's, but its success is all Roberts's own." "--Strange Horizons"

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