The Earth is long dead,blasted apart,and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying,class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal,born to rule those with a normal life-span,but his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn't know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and the law,thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then he reached the age of eighty,understood what had happened to him and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world forever.Fury is a powerful,dark and compelling novel that explores the sensual,bloody and urgent nature of humankind's striving.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9781473222557Number of pages: 224Weight: 200 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 18 mm
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Kuttner was exceptional. (He) died in 1958 at the ripe young age of forty-three. Our own minds were extinguished a little in response
Kuttner has power,a way with words,and grasp of technique...brings life and reality to his stories. - New York TimesA pomegranate writer: popping with seeds - full of ideas.Fury shows how under conditions incomprehensibly different from those we now experience,mankind once again starts up the long climb from decay to greatnessOne of the most able and versatile of modern sf writers - Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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