# World Engines: Destroyer

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- Book: [World Engines: Destroyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/world-engines-destroyer) ([World Engines: Destroyer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter/world-engines-destroyer.md))
- Authors: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-baxter), [Penelope Rawlins](https://www.bookquiver.com/penelope-rawlins)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7322-321-9
- Published: 2019-09-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own, and a plan...