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Nineteen-book epic to Quercus
Quercus has pounced on a 19-book, two million-word future history epic. David Wingrove's Chung Kuo rivals Dune and Asimov's Foundation series, according to editorial director Nicolas Cheetham, who bought world rights excluding France from Diana Tyler at MBA.
Set 200 years in the future in a world dominated by China, the sequence of books sees history re-written and the West forgotten, with no official record of Shakespeare, Mozart or Einstein. Any reminders of the past are buried beneath mile-high, continent-spanning cities. "In a genre of big ideas and even bigger books, this is the biggest and most ambitious of them all," said Cheetham.
The series has been 20 years in the making. Quercus will launch it in May 2009, with all 19 volumes to be available by the end of 2012.
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