Ice and Fire by David Wingrove, Chung Kuo Recast #4 Past Secrets The year is 2201. Hung Kuo, the great City that covers the globe, enjoys an uneasy peace. But it is a peace that will soon be disrupted by the discovery of the Aristotle File, which charts the real history of the world – a truth which has been suppressed for centuries. Present dangers Cold, cruel and calculating, Howard DeVore is determined to end the rule of the Seven T’angs and make way for his own bid for power. The harbinger of Change is the starship The New Hope – and its destruction will force the rebel factions into open warfare with the Seven The Fight begins… Ice and Fire is the fourth book in the Chung Kuo Recast series, I just started over a month ago reading this series and was blown away with the introduced concept and how David Wingrove started plotting this story of epic proportions. So far the prologues were a great start to the series I learned a lot about the comings and goings...