The Light Ages - Hardcover

MacLeod, Ian R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743462424 ISBN 13: 9780743462426

Verlag: Earthlight, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Come to Britain in an Industrial Revolution powered by Magic! Aether rules the world. Aether runs the engines, the telegraphs, the very lights of London. Through spells and aether, England has created a mighty Industrial Revolution. In that world, Robert Borrows is insignificant, yet his past holds the truth of the world's future...Growing up in the Yorkshire town of Bracebridge, a town dominated by the mighty aether mines and engines, Robert sees the way in which proximity to aether can poison a life when his mother gradually becomes the thing all families dread - a changeling, less than human, awful to see. Running away to London, Robbie encounters Anna Winters, who he first met on a trip with his mother in happier times. Mercurial and mysterious, Anna becomes his fata morgana. Exploring the Brobdignian city, all colours, smells and danger, Robbie comes into contact with myriad social classes and types, and people who take him back to Bracebridge and the mysteries of aether. This Age is ending, in fire and death...World Fantasy Award-winner Ian R MacLeod creates an England that is recognisable yet entirely different in this massive novel of an Industrial Revolution fuelled by m

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Since 1990, Ian R MacLeod has sold about thirty short stories to most of the main SF markets, including Fantasy and SF, Amazing, Interzone, Asimov's, Weird Tales, Pulphouse, Pirate Writings, etc. along with a few articles and poems, many of which have been repeatedly anthologised. His first sale, 1/72nd Scale, was nominated for the Nebula Award for the year's best novella. He also sold separate stories to the Year's Best SF, Fantasy and Horror in his first full year of being published. Since then, he has continued to make almost annual appearances in the Year's Best SF, and about every other year in the Best Horror. He has also been nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the James Tiptree Award. His work has been translated into many languages, including Italian, French, Japanese, Polish and German. His alternative history novella entitled The Summer Isles won the World Fantasy Award. He lives in Birmingham with his wife and daughter.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Earthlight
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0743462424
• ISBN 13: 9780743462426
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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