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    The Hour of the Thin Ox

    Colin Greenland

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    The barbarians are coming and what do they bring A vivid, turbulent novel following the fates of two very different people in a land that is not their own drawn together at The Hour Of The Thin Ox

    In tranquil, prosperous Bryland, a young heiress learns of a new engine of war which will bring terrible change in its wake. In the distant, arrogant nation of Escaly, the elderly Imperial Geometer is sent upon an unexpected and frightening mission. In the dark, feverish jungles of Belanesi, a strange half-human people wait for a season of rain and the call of a mysterious piper. At the Hour of the Thin Ox three cultures collide, with violent and paradoxical consequences.

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    Born in Dover, Kent, Colin Greenland is an award-wining science fiction author. His first book, The Entropy Exhibition, was a critical look at the New Wave movement, based on his PHD thesis. Best known among his acclaimed Fantasy and SF works is the 'Tabitha Jute' space opera sequence, the first of which, Take Back Plenty, won the BSFA and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Colin Greenland lives in Cambridge with his partner, writer Susanna Clarke.

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