A man lies half-drowned on a Cornish beach at dawn in the furthest days
of this century. The old woman who discovers him, once a famous concert
violinist, is close to death herself--or perhaps a new kind of life she
can barely contemplate. Does death still exist at all, or has it finally
been obliterated? And who is this strange man she's found? Is he a
figure returned from her past, a new Messiah, or an empty vessel? God or
the Devil?
Filled with love and music, death and life, mind-bending ideas and
simple humanity amid the ruins of a post-apocalyptic India, the Song of
Time won both the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell awards in 2009.