{"product_id":"lavie-tidhar-neom-a-novel-from-the-world-of-central-station-9781616963828","title":"Neom: A Novel from the World of Central Station","description":"Today, Neom is a utopian dream--a megacity of the future yet to be built in the Saudi desert. In this deeply imaginative novel from the award-winning universe of Central Station, far-future Neom is already old. Sentient machines roam the desert searching for purpose, works of art can be more deadly than weapons, and the spark of a long-overdue revolution is in the wind. Only the rekindling of an impossible love affair may slow the inevitable sands of time.\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is Tidhar at his best: the crazily proliferating imagination, the textures, the ideas, the dazzling storytelling. A brilliant portrait of community and its possibilities.\" --Adam Roberts, author of Purgatory Mount\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. It is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful; an urban sprawl along the Red Sea; and a port of call between Earth and the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry, unnamed robot has unearthed one of the region's biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Neom, childhood affection is rekindling between loyal shurta-officer Nasir and hardworking flower-seller Mariam. But Nasu, a deadly terrorartist, has come to the city with missing memories and unfinished business. Just one robot can change a city's destiny with a single rose--especially when that robot is in search of lost love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavie Tidhar's (Unholy Land, The Escapement) newest lushly immersive novel, Neom, which includes a guide to the Central Station-verse, is at turns gritty, comedic, transportive, and fascinatingly plausible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tachyon Publications","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53296403939670,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781616963828_1.jpg?v=1782347524","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lavie-tidhar-neom-a-novel-from-the-world-of-central-station-9781616963828","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}