A Scientific Romance
by Ronald Wright
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- Seller
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Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Picador, 1998. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. First U.S. edition/printing. (published in Canada one year prior). Book and jacket are both As New condition. A well received novel - Winner of the David Higham (British Commonwealth) Award for Fiction. "...A Scientific Romance (1997), acknowledges through its title a close connection to H G Wells, whose first Scientific Romance, The Time Machine (1895), provides a model for the later book. Wright's museum-curator protagonist in fact travels forward through time in the same Time Machine Wells's protagonist had used; as he soon discovers, the London of the year 2500, devastated by Ecological degradation and Climate Change, has become a subtropical wilderness. " [JC] The Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition/Internet.
Synopsis
Ronald Wright is the author of the international bestsellers Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents and of Home and Away , an acclaimed collection of travel pieces. He lives near Port Hope, Ontario.
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- Bookseller
- Clarkean Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000521
- Title
- A Scientific Romance
- Author
- Ronald Wright
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Picador
- Date Published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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