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Inverted World

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Helward Mann leaves the City of Earth - the world he knows - to work as a Future Surveyor in an alien world, where everything seems familiar at first but soon appears strangely different. The world is 'inverted'. It is a planet of infinite size existing in a universe of finite bounds... 'He conjures up some admirably powerful images out of his vision of a world which is literally the inverse of our own' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'One of the trickiest and most astonishing twist endings in modern SF' TRIBUNE 'A spinning originality grips every page' THE LISTENER

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Inverted World, Christopher Priest

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1979
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Title
Inverted World
Language
English
Publisher
Pan
Released
1979
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0330256602
ISBN13
9780330256605
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First published
1974
Original title
Inverted World
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Helward Mann leaves the City of Earth - the world he knows - to work as a Future Surveyor in an alien world, where everything seems familiar at first but soon appears strangely different. The world is 'inverted'. It is a planet of infinite size existing in a universe of finite bounds... 'He conjures up some admirably powerful images out of his vision of a world which is literally the inverse of our own' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'One of the trickiest and most astonishing twist endings in modern SF' TRIBUNE 'A spinning originality grips every page' THE LISTENER