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253

253

by Geoff Ryman

1998FictionSubwaysCity and town lifeCity and town life -- Fiction.Fiction, general
2.5
Open Library
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About this book

A Bakerloo tube train with no-one standing and no empty seats can carry 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a page devoted to them, divided into three sections - what they look like, what they are thinking and inside information - and some of them are going to die.

Themes & subjects

FictionSubwaysCity and town lifeCity and town life -- Fiction.Fiction, generalLondon (england), fiction
First published 1998

Setting

London (England)

About the author

Geoff Ryman
Geoff Ryman

1951-05-09

**Geoff Ryman** is a Canadian living in London. He has published eight novels and two volumes of his own short fiction. He has also co-edited a collection of Canadian science fiction and edited an anthology of collaborations between fiction authors and scientists. His stories and novels have won fourteen awards, most recently a 2012 Nebula for the novelette “What We Found.” — [Alien Sex](/books/OL37962706M/)

Author

Geoff Ryman

First published

1998

Pages

356

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

5

Languages

English, German

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

ISBN

9780312182953

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