Chasing the Phoenix

Chasing the Phoenix: a science fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick!. In the distant future Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems. . Darger and Surplus a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler. And against all odds it begins to work but it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes. Chasing the Phoenix is a sharp slick witty science fiction adventure that is hugely entertaining from Michael Swanwick one of the best SF writers alive.. At the Publisher''s request this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.