Shiva 3000

Paperback | 1 May 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Two men of very different personalities make a quarrelsome journey across the vast subcontinent of India in quest of very different destinies. Along the way, young Rakesh and Vasant, the former Royal Engineers, experience a host of bizarre and memorable encounters: with the giant wood-constructed god Jagannath carving a swathe of destruction, the Pragmatic Monks who live in a carved-out mountain to perform their miracles of meditation, with demon cranes who reduce life to counting, six-armed goondas, the destroyer Shiva and the legendary baboon warrior.
From this cinematic dreamscape filled with animated machines, airships of silk and ancient legends brought to life, Jan Lars Jensen conjures up an amazing and innovative fantasy.

Industry Reviews

Science Fiction has suddenly come out of the hinterland of genre-fiction and become respectable, merging into the inventive dreamscapes of magic realism. A new breed of writers, including Canada's Larsen and Britain's Mieville, are breaking down the old barriers with novels like this one. Set in the India of the distant future, it tells of a world where myth and magic hold more sway than ever, where Karma, or destiny, launches young men on bizarre quests and strange mechanized gods employ what's left of a vanished technology. There's dark humour as well as bright adventure, all the breadth of invention we come to expect from fantasy and the subtlety we expect from mainstream literature. An intriguing and colourful debut. (Kirkus UK)

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