Neverness

Neverness
David Zindell

An epic masterwork of science fiction, Neverness is a stand-alone novel from one of the most important talents in the genre.

The universe of Neverness is intriguingly complex and filled with extraordinary beings. There are the Alaloi, whose genes have ‘backmutated’ so that they look like Neanderthals… the Order of Pilots, which reworks the laws of time and physics to slingshot its members through dense regions of ‘thickspace’… the Solid State Entity, a nebula-sized brain made up of moon-sized biocomputers…

Against this backdrop stands Mallory Ringer, the headstrong novitiate of the Order of Pilots, who, against all odds, navigates a maze of interspatial passageways to penetrate the Solid State Entity. There he makes a stunning discovery. A discovery that could unlock the secret of immortality hidden among the Alaloi.

DAVID ZINDELL

Neverness

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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 Grafton 1988

Copyright © David Zindell 1988

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Neverness is Zindell’s highly acclaimed first novel. A reviewer in the New Scientist wrote of it in 1992: ‘David Zindell writes of interstellar mathematics in poetic prose that is a joy to read’.

His second novel, 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

Zindell has completed A Requiem for Homo Sapiens with War in Heaven, available now, in hardback. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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For Melody

Contents

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1 Journeymen Die (#ulink_2121ba3a-fd38-5cea-a12c-099294b2576c)

2 A Pilot’s Vows (#ulink_d1c6ce94-d10c-52f9-8863-e995581c0298)

3 The Timekeeper’s Tower (#ulink_080d0219-7122-5307-95e4-8991bc016618)

4 The Number Storm (#ulink_dc10b5b5-0000-5cb0-9158-c5ede1ec893c)

5 The Solid State Entity (#ulink_8b0c7a6e-4982-5d29-9910-da797054a870)

6 The Image of Man (#ulink_e795634a-85c3-59df-83c1-e29e6e7dec3d)

7 Rainer’s Sculpture (#ulink_ca68dac7-0574-5e47-9942-e46a385c6aa7)

8 Kweitkel (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Yuri the Wise (#litres_trial_promo)

10 The Aklia (#litres_trial_promo)

11 The Old Man of the Cave (#litres_trial_promo)

12 The Little Death (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Hunger (#litres_trial_promo)