For any wall, no matter how strong, can be breached-particularly from within… *Daily Mail (UK). Men-and women-filled with greed and ambition have now turned their eyes toward the fertile West. But decades of drought have destabilized those eastern civilizations. For millennia, the Wall has also kept the growing empires of the Bronze Age at bay. The British Isles are still one with the European mainland and Doggerland has become a vibrant and rich land. The wall that Ana's people built has long outlasted her and history has been changed. 2011 by Stephen Baxter (Author) 2 ratings Hardcover 4.29 7 Used from 1.50 Centuries have passed. Now, inhabited from end to end, the Wall is a linear city stretching for hundreds of miles, and a wonder of the world. The first novel from one of the worlds leading SF authors, now a SF Masterwork for the first time. Bronze Summer (Northland 2) Hardcover 15 Sept. It began as a simple dam, thousands of years ago. They live off the bounty of the land, an area created by the building of the Wall. And a wall that was built to hold back the sea, must now hold back the advancing armies of a reviving Troy… What would have been the bed of the North Sea is now Northland, a society of prosperous, literate and self-sufficient people. Stephen Baxter’s “imaginative bold”* novel Stone Spring drew readers into an alternate prehistoric scenario that now continues with Bronze Summer.
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