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“We are all slaves to the wheel, forever moving forward in pursuit of an unattainable horizon.��

I love a science fiction story that only works as science fiction. The concept of a moving city had been borrowed from this book many times, to lesser effect, those books don’t want to over complicate their stories with a complex “why��.
For Priest the city crawling along on its tracks that must be laid down before it and pulled up behind it is only the beginning.
Most people living in the city are unaware of the whys and hows of their inexorable journey in search of the “optimum��
A system of guilds whose members are sworn to secrecy about the reason they must never stop moving.

A young guild initiate named Helward Man slowly learns the truth of his society and the world they inhabit.

The inverted world brings up questions about time, truth and perception that are difficult to grasp in any world, inverted or otherwise.