But the world-he is about to discover-is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well. But suppose you have a 4,000 credit balance and your interest rate is 20. If you don’t carry a balance from month to month, the APR is less important. So, if you have a 20.9 rate, which is the average according to the Fed’s data, it might increase to 21.15. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city's continued existence. THE INVERTED WORLD by Christopher Priest RELEASE DATE: JPriest postulates an eerily enigmatic world where a city travels inexorably along tracks that are constantly picked up from behind and laid out ahead by members of an elaborate guild system. The latest increase will likely raise the APR on your credit card 0.25. Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite.

The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum.

Raised in common in crèches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. The only alternative to progress is death. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the 'optimum' into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake.

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes.

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