New Releases by David Wingrove

Part Three of The Roads to Moscow The war for time is reaching its end As the German and Russian forces seek to destroy a third, seemingly unstoppable faction, Otto Behr reluctantly finds himself at the centre of all timelines, his very existence the catalyst by which reality itself will be reset or destroyed. But for Otto, the battle to become the Master of Time has become a fight for family, love and reality itself...

The year is 2207. Currents of unrest and tides of innovation threaten to overwhelm Chung Kuo''s stability, and some threats are beyond the immense city''s control. When a lethal epidemic strikes the Seven''s chief supporters, Li Yuan acts ruthlessly to wipe out the disease. But his actions incur far more fatal consequences for the rule of the Seven. While the Seven splinters, Kwibesi, the detention camp for terrorists, continues to establish order. However, rebellion is brutally contained inside the camp and a growing sense of injustice stirs in its guard, Kao Chen, who begins to question his sense of duty. The Seven are divided among themselves, and around them allegiances are shifting.

2206. Au bout de cinq ans d’une guerre sournoise ponctuée de terribles massacres et une vague d’assassinats chez les puissants, les Sept sortent du conflit vainqueurs mais affaiblis. Ils ont perdu trois des leurs et les nouveaux tangs sont jeunes et inexpérimentés. S’il était jadis inconcevable de défier le pouvoir établi, de nouveaux courants travaillent les bas-fonds du Zhongguo. Et l’exigence de changement exprimée par les masses n’est pas la seule menace. L’infâme DeVore cherche à nouer de nouvelles alliances pour les anéantir, eux et leur Cité à l’échelle de la Terre. Mais le renégat n’a pas l’apanage de la fourberie, qui se cache aussi plus près des Sept qu’ils ne l’imaginent. Les voici désormais vulnérables et les forces qui se dressent contre eux continuent de grandir...

PAIX IMMUABLE 2196. Plus d’un siècle s’est écoulé. Un siècle de paix pour le Zhongguo et ses bientôt quarante milliards d’âmes réparties dans les trois cents niveaux des Sept Cités. Le Conseil des tangs veille jalousement sur cette paix. La clé en est la stabilité, c’est-à-dire le refus du changement. Mais peut-on arrêter la grande roue de l’Histoire ? CHAOS EN GERME Car il y a des insatisfaits, notamment parmi les Hongmao au long nez. Et le goût du complot n’a pas disparu, y compris dans l’entourage du pouvoir. L’assassinat du ministre de l’Édit, chargé du contrôle des technologies nouvelles, servira de détonateur. Le Zhongguo se précipite vers la guerre des Deux Directions. Mensonge, crime et trahison ne connaîtront plus de barrières.

A Restless Peace It is 2206. As Chung Kuo''s population continues to swell, the Seven - the ruling T''angs - are forced make further concessions; laws must be relaxed and the House at Weinmar reopened. Change is coming, whether the Seven like it or not. A Secret War The tides of unrest unleashed by earlier wars grow faster even than the population. DeVore secretly allies with newly appointed general, Hans Ebert. It seems that DeVore''s plans are coming to fruition. But Ebert has his own schemes and plots - he intends to depose the Seven and control the whole of Chung Kuo.

PAIX IMMUABLE 2196. Le grand Empire de glace, le Zhongguo, est finalement ébranlé après plus d’un siècle d’une paix imposée par une brutale tyrannie. Le ministre de l’Édit – chargé de contrôler les technologies susceptibles d’amener le Changement – est retrouvé assassiné. Les sept tangs qui se partagent le pouvoir s’efforcent de maintenir l’équilibre alors même que leurs villes hautes d’un kilomètre bâties à l’échelle de continents entiers sombrent peu à peu dans le chaos. CHAOS IRRÉSISTIBLE Au cœur de la tourmente, la rébellion s’organise. Proches du pouvoir, les responsables de l’assassinat profitent de l’occasion pour susciter le Changement. Cette trahison, première d’une longue série, précipitera la planète dans la grande Guerre des Deux Directions.

Peace has returned The year is 2206. After five years of war, the Seven are weak. They have lost three of their members, and the new T''ang are young and inexperienced. Once it was considered inconceivable but now, down in the lowest levels of the immense CIty, new currents of unrest have awoken. Currents that threaten to tear Chung Kuo apart. The fight endures But the demand for CHange is not the only threat to the Seven. Major Howard DeVore will use any means available to destroy them and their world-spanning City. And, from their own ranks, Wang Sau-leyan, appointed T''ang after the suspicious deaths of his father and elder brothers, plots to destroy them from within. The Seven are vulnerable and the forces against them continue to grow... Welcome to the Future

It''s 2207. Chung Kuo is falling apart. The Seven''s greatest enemy masterminds a series of terrorist atrocities. The work of a scientific genius is destroyed by deadly assassins. And a group of rich American rebels plan to create Change. At any price.

THE FOURTH INSTALMENT IN THE CHUNG KUO SERIES Spring 2201 - Spring 2203: The T''ang who make up the ruling Seven are struggling to maintain stasis and prevent change, as the "War That Wasn''t A War" is fought within the levels of Chung Kuo''s great world-spanning City: a war fought not with armies on battlefields but with an inventive evil - with bombs and betrayals, brutal assassinations and sly poisonings. Adding to the pressure for change is the existence of a document that charts the true history of this world, not the version invented and policed by the Ministry - the "Thousand Eyes" - who have, for so long, maintained this dark shadow at the very heart of Chung Kuo. Its discovery by the Dispersionists will fuel their ardent desire for change and for an end to Han rule. Lined up against the Dispersionists are a handful of men utterly loyal to the Seven - men like General Tolonen, along with the two men he has recruited from the Lowers, Gregor Karr and Kao Chen. When Tolonen destroys the newly-built generation-starship, The New Hope, he will change Chung Kuo for good by declaring war on the Dispertionists.

CHANGE IS ON THE AIR: The generals of the Middle Kingdom await the decision of the emperor. The campaign to secure the border from China to Iraq has reached a strange impasse. Two blood enemies - Arabs & Jews - have united against their common cause. But with the lives of thousands at his whim, the exalted Tsao Ch''un, the Son of Heaven, cannot decide. Destroy the Middle East in one blinding flash? Or take another path? BUT THE WAY IS UNCLEAR: In the court of Tsao Ch''un, men of power have become smiling lackeys, whose graces conceal their fear, or their ambition. A man that can be trusted absolutely is a rare thing. And so, with his family held hostage by the empire, General Jiang Lei finds himself appointed to a special task: the orchestration of the last great war against the West. The total dominion of America. WAR APPROACHES: But life in the world of levels continues. No hint of war, or want, or discontent can infiltrate the oppressive, ordered society that replaces the world Jake Reed once knew. Since the first airships rolled over the horizon, nothing has been the same. His new life means new thinking, new customs, a new way of behaving, & with his every move scrutinized, Jake can only serve the bureaucracy of new China. But he is not the only citizen who feels discontent with the anodyne new order.

The first instalment in the epic 20-volume series, Chung Kuo: a science fiction masterpiece standing alongside Herbert''s Dune and Asimov''s Foundation The year is 2065, two decades after the great economic collapse that destroyed Western civilization. With its power broken and its cities ruined, life in the West continues in scattered communities. In rural Dorset Jake Reed lives with his 14-year-old son and memories of the great collapse. Back in ''43, Jake was a rich, young futures broker, immersed in the datascape of the world''s financial markets. He saw what was coming - and who was behind it. Forewarned, he was one of the few to escape the fall. For 22 years he has lived in fear of the future, and finally it is coming - quite literally - across the plain towards him. Chinese airships are in the skies and a strange, glacial structure has begun to dominate the horizon. Jake finds himself forcibly incorporated into the ever-expanding ''World of Levels'' a global city of some 34 billion souls, where social status is reflected by how far above the ground you live. Here, under the rule of the mighty Tsao Ch''un, a resurgent China is seeking to abolish the past and bring about world peace through rigidly enforced order. But a civil war looms, and Jake will find himself at the heart of the struggle for the future.

Comment briser le pouvoir des Sept P Comment semer la discorde dans leurs rangs ? Comment détruire l''ordre du Zhongguo ? Howard DeVore s''y emploie : un attentat sanglant spectaculaire, la destruction des plantations vivrières d''Europe de l''Est... Le renégat, fin joueur de miel, prépare toujours plusieurs coups d''avance. Et les passions irrépressibles s''en mêlent aussi : celle, coupable, de Feiyan pour le tang d''Asie occidentale pourrait déchirer le Conseil suprême. Si elle venait à se savoir... Les haines et les désirs s''enflamment, les manœuvres s''accélèrent, les événements se précipitent. La Cité Terre court-elle à sa perte ? Li Yuan avait jadis fait un rêve : une montagne blanche d''ossements couvrait la plaine où se trouvait naguère la Cité... l''ouvre monumentale de David Wingrove atteint ici un apogée.

This omnibus edition of the hugely popular Myst trilogy is published to coincide with the release of Myst Revelations, the latest in the line of the bestselling Myst interactive CD-ROM games. The award-winning Myst series is one of the most successful interactive CD-ROM computer games in history with sales of more than 12 million copies worldwide. Myst captivated the world when it was first conceived and created by brothers Rand and Robyn Miller. Its extraordinary success has gone on to spawn Riven, Myst III Exile, and most recently, Uru: The Ages Beyond Myst. Devoted fans of these surreal adventure games gather yearly at "Mysterium" (whose event sites are spreading to other countries) to exchange game strategies, share stories, and meet up with old friends. The Myst Reader is a literary companion to the CD-ROM games and a compendium of the bestselling official Myst trilogy: The Book of Atrus, The Book of Ti''ana, and The Book of D''ni. Devoted fans and new players alike will be delighted to have three books in this mythic saga together for the first time in one value-priced volume, which will be published in time to coincide with the long-awaited release of Myst Revelations.

En ce début du XXIIIe siècle, le monde est dominé par la Chine : Chung Kuo, l''empire du milieu. Divisé en sept provinces, il s''étend sur toute la surface du globe. L''humanité est enfermée dans de monumentales Cités érigées sur trois cents étages. Du haut de son trône, au sommet de la Cité Europe, l''empereur vieillissant, Li Shai Tung, doit faire face aux ambitions des industriels Hung Mao, les Européens de souche qui ne supportent plus son autorité. Qui remportera le bras de fer qui agite les niveaux supérieurs ? Dans les bas-fonds, sous la Toile où se retrouvent tous les miséreux qui subissent le joug des Triades, un assassin, un kwai, devra utiliser toute sa force et son ingéniosité pour survivre dans cet univers sordide... Enfin, sous les fondations de la Cité, dans la Glaise, un jeune garçon prénommé Kim sera malgré lui le catalyseur d''une guerre qui ne veut pas dire son nom... Intrigues et trahisons, honneur et amour hantent les destins des héros de Chung Kuo. Fresque cruelle et féroce, pleine de fougue et de passion, Chung Kuo (et ses suites) est devenu dans les pays anglo-saxons la nouvelle référence de livre-univers depuis Dune.

Atrus, fils de Gehn, petit-fils d''Aitrus et de Ti''ana, n''a qu''un rêve : ressusciter D''ni dont l''histoire berça son enfance, la relever de ses ruines, effacer à jamais le souvenir du cataclysme qui anéantit la fabuleuse cité souterraine de ses ancêtres. Pour la repeupler, il lui faut rechercher à travers les Ages d''éventuels survivants de la Grande Peste. Atrus, sa compagne Catherine et leurs amis d''Averone s''en vont donc, grâce aux anciens livres D''ni, explorer les mondes lointains - mondes déserts, hostiles. Jusqu''au jour où ils découvrent Yerahnee. Là, tout n''est qu''harmonie, douceur, beauté. Les hommes y vivent en paix et sont gouvernés par un roi au visage d''ange. Un monde parfait. Mais cet Age possède une face cachée. Un envers diabolique. Et le rêve va se transformer en cauchemar. Pourtant, il était écrit qu''Atrus, héritier du Grand Monarque, viendrait, en messager de la plus glorieuse des civilisations, accomplir les anciennes prophéties...

Excitement for the MYST series continues with the release of the new CD-ROM Riven, the long awaited sequel to MYST. In this third novel by the creators of the CD-ROM phenomenon, Catherine and Atrus return to the devastated domain of the D''Ni civilization to fulfill their destinies. But as they begin to search the many worlds, seeking the survivors Ti''ana told them of, they find clues that bring them to a hidden book and discover a secret that the D''Ni masters planned long ago.

In the spring of 2232, hopes for a more humane world become manifest in the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine." There, Emily Ascher, once a freedom fighter, lives as Mama Em, mother to the orphans of a war-devastated land. But unto the people of Chung Kuo, two children will be born: "Coffin Filler," a baby girl smothered and thrown away but not yet dead, and baby boy Josef, delivered into a hostile land, yet determined to fight for his life. They are part of a new generation who will see more death than any who have gone before. While peace seems to reign, the puppet master of an army of giant androids plans one final, absolute destruction. And while the great T''ang, the dictators of Earth, are gone, the mega corporation GenSyn remains. And soon its pleasure drug called "Golden Dreams" will make Chung Kuo a funeral pyre for golden corpses--until the only escape lies in sending the survivors toward new stars. . . or joining Emily Ascher in a battle for liberty and a new Earth.

Ti''ana, known among humans as Anna, is the first woman from the outside worldto enter the domain of D''ni. This is her story of trust and betrayal, and herstruggle against the evil schemes of Veovis, the architect of the destructionof D''ni, and all that she loves.

"Imagine a collaboration between James Clavell and the late Frank Herbert . . . "--San Francisco Chronicle. Wingrove''s critically acclaimed saga of a future world ruled by the Chinese--called "superb gung-ho entertainment" by The Washington Post Book World--continues with this eagerly awaited installment.