SALES POINTS * #30 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * 'M. John Harrison is a blazing original ... a great imaginer and an extraordinary writer' Clive Barker * 'No one can use words like M. John Harrison' Michael Marshall Smith * 'A Zen Master of Prose' Iain Banks * 'I worship the work of M. John Harrison' Pat Cadigan
John Truck turns out to be part Centaurian - the last identifiable survivor of a genocidal war - and he's caught between two bloodthirsty Terran factions, both seeking the enigmatic weapon that was the Centaurian legacy to their destroyers. This one is well intentioned but self-indulgent - it has its moments but they're few and far between the light years. (Kirkus Reviews)