All the Birds in the Sky - Couverture souple

Anders, Charlie Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785650556 ISBN 13 : 9781785650550

Editeur : Titan Books Ltd, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"In All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders darts and soars, with dazzling aplomb, throwing lightning bolts of literary style that shimmer with enchantment or electrons. She tackles profound, complicated questions, vast and insignificant as the fate of the planet, tiny and crucial as the vagaries of friendship, rocketing the reader through a pocket-sized epic of identity whose sharply-drawn protagonists come to feel like the reader s best friends. The very short list of novels that dare to traffic as freely in the uncanny and wondrous as in big ideas, and to create an entire, consistent, myth-ridden alternate world that is still unmistakably our own, all while breaking the reader s heart into the bargain I think of masterpieces like The Lathe of Heaven; Cloud Atlas; Little, Big has just been extended by one." - --Michael Chabon (Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)

Two crazy kids, one gifted in science, the other in magic, meet as children, part and meet again over many years. Will they find love? Will they save the world? Or will they destroy it and everyone in it? Read Anders lively, whacky, sexy, scary, weird and wonderful book to find the answers. ---- Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves)

Highly readable and imaginative, All the Birds in the Sky will sing to Philip Pullman fans. The Mail on Sunday

By far one of the best debut novels in the genre in years. Starburst Magazine

Everything you could ask for in a debut novel a fresh look at science fiction s most cherished memes, ruthlessly shredded and lovingly reassembled. --Cory Doctorow (Homeland)

"Warm, funny, sardonic - the best debut novel I've read in ages." - Charles Stross (Neptune's Brood)

"All the Birds in the Sky takes two very distinct genres and blends them together seaml

Heartfelt, ambitious and dynamic. Fantastic stuff. The Financial Times

Deeply empathetic, humanistic work, funny and moving and wonderfully inventive. --Den of Geek Books of the Year

Présentation de l'éditeur :

WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDS

FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDS

Patricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird, but their lives take different paths... When they meet again as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world and live up to his reputation in near-future San Francisco. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, working hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians and secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments. As they attempt to save our future, Laurence and Patricia's shared past pulls them back together. And though they come from different worlds, when they collide, the witch and the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Titan Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1785650556
• ISBN 13: 9781785650550
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320