Games

2201. Chung Kuo, the world-girdling city ruled by the Seven T'angs, is caught in a struggle between two ideologies. The T'angs favour stability and stasis. The House, the bureaucratic body that rules City Europe in the T'angs' name, advocates change and progress, exemplified in their construction of a generation starship. The Seven are now faced with the choice of allowing their Empire of Ice to be swept away by progress or by launching a pre-emptive strike to win back control of the situation...but risk triggering a civil war. Ice and Fire is the fourth volume in the 'new' version of the Chung Kuo series, picking up shortly after the events of The Middle Kingdom . As well as being a continuation of that novel (understandably, as Ice and Fire was originally published in 1988 as part of the original Middle Kingdom ), it also contains a number of self-contained character and story arcs standing against the epic events unfolding from previously. If Ice and Fire ...

The cover art for Ice and Fire , the fourth book in the revamped, twenty-volume Chung Kuo series, has appeared online . As with the first three books, the cover art is by Larry Rostant. And with the title (and a slightly different image; it is unclear which is the final version at the moment): The third volume in the series, The Middle Kingdom , is currently scheduled for release (after a slight delay) on 1 October 2012. Ice and Fire will follow on 1 December. The fifth book, The Art of War , has also been provisionally scheduled for 1 March 2013.