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The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest
Narrated by: Steven Cree
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A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.

The society within toils under an oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they get there. The ending of the novel provides one of the most profound twists in SF.

©2012 Christopher Priest (P)2012 Audible Ltd Science Fiction
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What a kicker at the end! Some very strange goings on within the City, but worth the wait.

Twist

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read this as a book in my 20s now over 40 years have passed and now listened to the story again as an audiobook - enjoy

inverted world

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Central premise makes no sense: Its not in the cities interest to see the women home plus they cant take the women home anyway since reality becomes too distorted to ever see them home in a capacity to know of they ever arrive safely

Terrible premise

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