The Inverted World

Christopher Priest

Original title: The inverted world

first published 1974 Gollancz / Orion, 2008 250 pages

New York Review Books classics

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the "optimum" into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on E...

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Editions we hold

Inverted World audiobook · 2016 · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781531841393
Inverted World paperback · 2013 · DAEDALUS · 9781407246406
Inverted World edition · 2012 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 9781299573666
Inverted World edition · 2010 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9780575088689
The Inverted World paperback · 2008 · NYRB Classics · 288 pages · 9781590172698
Inverted World (S.F. Masterworks) edition · 2008 · Gollancz / Orion · 250 pages · 9780575082106
Le Monde inverti paperback · 2002 · Gallimard · 387 pages · 9782070421497
Inverted World paperback · 1987 · Victor Gollancz · 256 pages · 9780575039933
Inverted World paperback · 1979 · Pan · 250 pages · 9780330256605
Inverted world edition · 1974 · Faber · 256 pages
The inverted world edition · 1974 · Harper & Row · 310 pages
Le monde inverti paperback · n/a · 9782266046213

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