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Kaleidoscope Century

John Barnes

First published May 1995
Type Novel
Series The Century Next Door #2

<b>From the flaps of the Tor first edition:</b> "Joshua Ali Quare wakes in 2109 at the age of 140 in a strong, youthful body with no memory of his past, to find he is at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy. The only clues to his identity are the records he has left - messages from the man he once was... <p>...At the end of the twentieth century, Joshua Quare was chosen by a mysterious cabal to be the object of a terrifying experiment. Every fifteen years a tailored virus ravages his system, making him gravely ill, and destroying his memories, but leaving him ten years younger. To preserve some shred of his identity, Quare has left himself a hypertext journal, a record Quare must search to learn his place in this bizarre and treacherous future. <p>As Quare journeys through is past, he discovers he has been a key figure in the history of a turbulent, violent century - soldier, criminal, assassin, spy. A century filled with killing plagues and warring cults, ruthless corporations and dying nations. A century where survival is often the only option. <p>Now someone is looking for him - someone from his past - and Quare must learn the terrifying secret of his history before it unleashes devastating consequences for the future of the human race."

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1996 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1995 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Tor Novel 7
June 1995 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Millennium Novel
June 1995 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Millennium Novel
1996 Cover Das kaleidoskopische Jahrhundert Heyne Novel
February 1996 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Phoenix Novel
September 1996 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Tor Novel 7
May 1998 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Millennium Novel
2000 Cover Un secolo di ordinaria follia Fanucci Editore Novel
March 2000 Cover The Century Next Door Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 185
April 2010 Cover Kaleidoscope Century Tor Novel