The House of Storms - Rilegato

MacLeod, Ian R.

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ISBN 10: 0743256727 ISBN 13: 9780743256728

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2005

Riassunto

The age of aether still reigns; its pale glow illuminating the land. All bear the mark of aether's extraordinary influence, except the changelings, banished to Einfell, that strange land untouched by the Age of Industry, that lay at England's troubled heart. When Great Grandmistress Alice Meynell, ruthless matriarch of the Great Guild of Telegraphers, brings her son to Invercombe, west of Bristol, she expects him to die there. Though her power and grace are legendary, not even she can halt her son's disease. In desperation she travels to Einfell, to seek favour from one who once trusted her. And Ralph is cured. Far away from the filth of industrial London, he is drawn away from his family responsibilities to the world of nature and to a fisherman's daughter Marion Price. Together they plan to run away, to defy the rule of the Guilds, even to change the world and how it sees itself. But Alice will not let love stand in the way of her in her insatiable lust for power - nor the very land she professes to love - even if it means plunging England into a long and bloody civil war. An astonishing work of imagination, Ian R. Macleod has created a truly original world, one that is strangely recognizable and yet utterly new, an England made of magic, but set amongst familiar hills and cities.

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is a monumental work of science fiction far superior to Asimov. MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien' Guardian
A wonderful, vivid, literate novel' STarburst
‘A monumental work of science fiction far superior to Asimov. MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien’ Guardian 26/02
‘With his follow-up to The Light Ages, Ian R MacLeod mixes up Mervyn Peake-esque events in the country pile at Invercombe with a full-blown English Civil War ... As fantasy continues on its long, painfully slow journey from faux medievalism, it’s a dark, richly textured delight. MacLeod will be a name to watch.’ SFX 01/03
'Macleod is one of the finest prose stylists around . . . his writing is unfailingly elegant, full of brilliantly realised English landscapes, deftly sensitive characterisations, luminously reworked fairy tales, and poetic elegies to lives and opportunities lost . . . amongst the best fantastic writing today. THE HOUSE OF STORMS is that uncommon thing, a sequel to be treasured as much as its precursor' LOCUS MAGAZINE, 02/05
'The House of Storms sees MacLeod's already strong writing take another notable step forward . . . Beautiful, turbid and often very rich, but never stifling prose flows from the page at a cracking rate of knots. Its fast-turning pages brim with joy and pain, love and war -- in short with humanity, a bit of everyday magic that shines brightly amongst the rather less common variety. MacLeod's current trajectory seems set to take him into the very top rank of modern British writers' VECTOR MAGAZINE (VECTOR Recommended Read) JULY ISSUE

L'autore:

Ian R. MacLeod is the author of THE GREAT WHEEL, and his short fiction has appeared in INTERZONE, ASIMOV'S and FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, and has been shortlisted for almost every major science fiction and fantasy award including the Hugo and the Nebula. He is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award for his alternate history novella, THE SUMMER ISLES, and his short story, THE CHOP GIRL.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743256727
• ISBN 13: 9780743256728
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 480