The Light Ages - Rilegato

MacLeod, Ian R.

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ISBN 10: 0743462424 ISBN 13: 9780743462426

Casa editrice: Earthlight, 2003

Riassunto

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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'A stunning novel in all ways, MacLeod's THE LIGHT AGES is as engaging as it is cautionary, with a strong main character and a bizarre and yet familiar setting that captivates and draws you in. Perhaps the boldest new fantasy voice to have appeared in the last few years, Ian R. MacLeod has broken down the barriers of genre fiction adn created something quite simply wonderful.'
WATERSTONES' ENIGMA
'MacLeod skilfully incorporates literary influences ranging from William Blake and Dickens to NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR and the working class novels of the 1950s - and arrives at something original. Magical, visionary and enthralling, THE LIGHT AGES is award-winning stuff'
SFX
'A wonderful new novel. THE LIGHT AGES is light years ahead in its depiction of an alternative England. It has great passion and elegance, within a traditional structure that allows for wonderful characters, a powerful sense of location and set-pieces of immense darkness and warmth. They provide it with a truly Dickensian scope, Dickens with a touch of Alan Garner and a glimpse of Gormenghast. Best of all, its resonances are deepened by one's own inherited knowledge of England's history and people. A book that feels so ingrained in a time and place that it really seems to exist within our cultural memory.'
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
'THE LIGHT AGES is a haunting and passionate evocation of a strange
Victorian age twisted out of true from the one we know by dark magics
and darker secrets. Rich, evocative, lyrical, compassionate, and
complex, it should help to confirm Ian MacLeod's reputation as one of
the very best writers working in the genre here at the beginning of the
21st Century' Gardner Dozois
Praise for Ian R. MacLeod and THE GREAT WHEEL
'Ian R. MacLeod is one hell of a writer - literary, inventive, always surprising. Pay attention: this guy is important. He's a major source and shaper of what science fiction will be in the millennium' Michael Swanwick, author of JACK FAUST
'A smooth, sinuous trip in the hands of a writer who knows just about everything there is to know about giving joy, and telling the truth, too. Ian R. MacLeod...is a new voice in the land of millennium. Heed him. Heed his story' John Clute, author of LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE
'THE GREAT WHEEL is a major achievement by a new voice who already vies with the best in the genre, and outside it too' Paul J. McAuley, author of FAIRYLAND
'THE GREAT WHEEL of Ian R. MacLeod is a first novel of great sophistication...A richly portrayed future world quite unlike any other, and yet, somehow, with the feeling of exotic familiarity' Norman Spinrad, author of PICTURES AT 11
'A beautiful book. It breathes, as a true novel of experience should. It's expansive and layered...and real. That it is a first novel is astonishing, for it transcends the genre' Jack Dann, author of THE MEMORY CATHEDRAL
'A serious, thoughtful work of futuristic fiction, this haunting novel is a bridge between Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD and Frank Herbert's DUNE' PUBLSHERS WEEKLY
'One of the finest sf novels of the past decade' INTERZONE
'A superb blend of Dickensian grandeur and SF themes' WATERSTONE'S QUARTERLY

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Earthlight
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743462424
• ISBN 13: 9780743462426
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia