KITEWORLD

by Keith Roberts

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Roberts. The Kiteworld sequence depicts a ruined earth Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its Steampunk rendering of the life of the crews who man the Kiteships, which are the size of airships, to guard the frontiers against demons as the ballistic or cruise missiles of a former technological era are now remembered

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