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Ancients Of Days: Confluence Book 2: Ancients of Days (HB): Bk. 2 Hardcover – 3 Sept. 1998

by Paul McAuley (Author)
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The world of Confluence is home to 10,000 alien races shaped by the Preservers who long ago abandoned Confluence. Now Confluence is riven by a civil war fired by the heresies of the last humans, the Ancients of Days, and the Great River, lifeblood of the inhabited part of the world, is failing.
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  1. Book 2 of 3
    Confluence
  2. Print length
    320 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Gollancz
  5. Publication date
    3 Sept. 1998
  6. Dimensions
    16 x 2.7 x 23.5 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0575064285
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0575064287
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Paul J. McAuley's Confluence trilogy, with its far-future bioengineered setting, lush prose and messianic themes, adds up to brilliant, literary storytelling. Ancients of Days is the second book in the trilogy--the first was Child of the River, in which young Yamamanama (referred to as Yama, thankfully) began to search for the secrets of his bloodline. His world, Confluence, is an artifact of a civilisation long gone, a vast, keeled structure that rocks back and forth on its long axis as it travels around its sun. Confluence is populated by nano-engineered peoples tracing their origins from thousands of animal species. The entire galaxy, including the locations of stars, has been artificially manipulated in this unimaginably distant future, presumably by ancient humans--known as the Preservers--as they extended their reach beyond Earth. In Ancients of Days, Yama continues his quest, learning that he may be one of the Builders, the first bloodline created by the Preservers. He can control the many machines that roam Confluence and people of other bloodlines obey him. But Confluence is a world in conflict and the evil Prefect Corin continues his hunt for Yama, in order to use the young man's powers to control weapons of war. Yama's friends help him as best they can, but as his power grows, they must decide whether to trust him or fear him. Is Yama one of the Ancients of Days, a messiah come to raise up the bloodlines from their base existences? Or a hapless tool of the malevolent feral machines that hover in orbits just off the horizon of Confluence? Don't miss this amazing series, destined to be one of the most memorable in science fiction. --Therese Littleton, Amazon.com

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Paul J. McAuley won the Philip K. Dick Award for his first novel and has gone on to win the Arthur C. Clarke, British Fantasy, Sidewise and John W. Campbell Awards. He gave up his position as a research biologist to write full-time.
He lives in london.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz; First Edition (3 Sept. 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0575064285
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0575064287
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16 x 2.7 x 23.5 cm
  • Customer reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 54 ratings

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Paul J. McAuley

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I'm the author of more than twenty books, including science-fiction, thriller, and crime novels, several collections of short stories, a Doctor Who novella, and an anthology of stories about popular music, which I co-edited with Kim Newman. My fiction has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell award, the Sidewise Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the British Fantasy Award for best short story.

Before I went over to the dark side and became a full-time writer, I worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University. My chief research interest was symbioses between unicellular algae and coelenterates, including green hydra, sea anemones, and reef-forming corals. I'm still a huge fan of all things to do with science, and spend too much time tweeting about weird and wonderful stuff as UnlikelyWorlds; Time magazine listed me as one of their top 140 most interesting tweeters in 2013.

I live in North London, and haven't yet walked down every street in the A-Z. But I'm trying.

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  • Patrick Nichols
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, great series.
    Reviewed in the United States on 29 September 2015
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    I can't believe there are no reviews of this book. Its great and the kindle is cheap! A great read. Here is a review I posted for the final book in the series.
    It's hard to describe this book and the other two in the series. They were a combination of Lord of the rings, the New Testament story of Jesus,and 1001 Arabian nights. The author must have an imagination as wide as the sky to have created this series. It is a story of 1000 stories. Well maybe not 1000 but certainly a lot.One after another the stories unfold so that if you find one a little boring it soon and new one begins. Is the age old tale of the boy who saves the world. Seriously I cannot imagine how the author came up with so many ideas, such a vividly imagined kaleidoscope of a world and hundreds of different bloodlines/people. I don't write a lot of reviews. I read the first in the series which to me reads like one long book. Often the series will have a different feel from book to book as the author maturity.to me this felt like a unified work ended up reading all three one after the other, something I normally would not do. The series of books is highly recommended and I intend to read everything Mr. McAuley has written.
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  • Jennifer Ferguson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book with intriguing world building
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 September 2019
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    I love this trilogy! I've read it many times.
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  • Digitallogic
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 24 April 2017
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    An enjoyable book.
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