num_pages: 544
description: Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? CENTURY RAIN is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, CENTURY RAIN is something altogether stranger.
language: English
title: Century Rain
titlecomplete: Century Rain
characters: Verity Auger
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Mystery, Space Opera, Detective, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Alternate History, Hard Science Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 10567
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Gollancz