DESCENDING ROAD: THE WORLD

The setting of “Descending Road” might as well be a character itself – or an entity worthy of its own story. In “Descending Road: The World”, that story tells itself in bits and pieces, as if we were visitors, tourists, wanderers, stumbling into one new situation or location after another as we tell you a bit about what you’re facing.

You’ll get a little about the history of human life on the planet. You’ll get a lot about the City where so much of the story action takes place. You’ll get the glossary of all the terms of special meaning, with a great deal of background on many of them. You’ll get a far-ranging set of reference articles on aspects including maps, history, calendars, andros (bioandroids), colls (clans), sensi (media), the military, naming, music, and more.

This book is not a cover-to-cover, page-by-page reading. It’s a browse-and-dip, and it is especially useful while reading the books of the novel itself. Keep it handy!