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Chung Kuo

chiangmaifalcon

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I found book 1 of Chung Kuo series today at used book store and was very happy about this. I read number 2 before of series which is 5 books but as they are used books cannot find all the time. This is great SF series by david Wingrove about future. Story is in 200 years fromnow and earth is greatly overpopulated and China rules the whole world. Story is mainly about how revolutionaries try to overthrow the Chinese. Everyone lives underground and never sees outside. Reminds me of Blade Runner and Dune, but I think better than Dune. Lots of action and violence and also complicated Chinese type conspiracies. They are all long books but I think anyone who start reading them will not be able to put down.
 
I've got the first 2 of this series on my tbr pile. I've been looking for the rest of them at my local used store for years but I've never seen any show up. They do pop up on ebay from time to time.
 
Found this info on librarything:

David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series was originally published as 8 novels (originally planned to be 9 but the publisher cancelled it and forced the series to be wrapped up prematurely in the eighth novel. Now the rights have been purchased by another publisher who plans to repackage the 8 existing novels into 18 smaller novels starting in 2011, leading up to the publication of 2 prequel novels around 2014.

The existing Chung Kuo series, all OOP:

The Middle Kingdom
The Broken Wheel
The White Mountain
The Stone Within
Beneath the Tree of Heaven
White Moon, Red Dragon
Days of Bitter Strength
The Marriage of the Living Dark
 
Thanks Lenny for information. I already read the 2nd book and now reading the first. Problem with series though is I only get 2nd hand books when I can find them and maybe never find the whole series and it is too expensive for me to have shipped here from amazon or someplace like that.
 
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