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This signed and numbered special edition features a brand-new translated text, a breathtaking bespoke cover design by Joe Wilson, digitally printed edges, foil stamping on the cover board, head and tail bands, a marker ribbon and stunning designed endpapers by Peng Lu - exclusive to the Gollancz Emporium.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. 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