num_pages: 303
description: A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.The society within toils under an oppressive regime, its structures always on the point of collapse, the lives of its individuals lived in misery. No one knows where they are going, why they are going or what they will find when they get there.The ending of the novel provides one of the most profound twists in SF.
language: English
title: Inverted World
titlecomplete: Inverted World
characters: Helward Mann
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, British Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 8693
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best SF Novel
publisher: Gollancz