Книга: Steph Swainston «The Modern World»

The Modern World

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

The endless war for survival against the merciless Insects has reached yet another stalemate for the Circle, the immortals who serve the Emperor of the Fourlands. The building of a massive dam has driven the Insects back, but it`s only a matter of time before they find another way to advance. Jant, the Emperor`s winged Messenger, is called away from battle to find the daughter of fellow immortal, Lightning. Cyan has gone missing in the city of Hacilith, and Lightning wants him to bring her back. But Jant knows better than anyone just how much trouble a teenager can get into in Hacilith`s underworld . . . So begins a hectic quest. A quest that will take Jant back to his past, back to the bizarre world of the Shift and, eventually, back to the Fourlands. Just as it faces a terrifying new threat. ISBN:9781473221826

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2017)

ISBN: 9781473221826

Steph Swainston

Steph Swainston is a British Fantasy/Science Fiction author, receiving critical acclaim (from China Miéville among others) for her first novel "The Year of Our War" (2004). The book won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The sequel "No Present Like Time" was published in 2005. Swainstons third book, "The Modern World", is set in the same universe and was published in May 2007.

She is frequently regarded (by others) as a member of the literary genre “the New Weird”, which aims to reform fantasy literature by transcending its traditional boundaries. However she denies that there is any such thing as the New Weird genre or movement, preferring to see it as a continuum or tradition. Swainston lists William Burroughs, Angela Carter and M. John Harrison as her major influences and Mervyn Peake as her favourite author. She likes the weird eccentric wordplay and nonsense poetry of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, a tradition continued by Douglas Adams and Jeff Noon's "Vurt". She has also read Dumas, Dickens, Vonnegut, Huxley, the fantasy of Gene Wolfe, and adventure stories from Robert Louis Stevenson.

Ms. Swainston has previously worked in a variety of jobs, including as a qualified archaeologist (with a degree from Cambridge (Girton College) and a research degree from the University of Wales), being employed on a dig that researched the oldest recorded burial site in the UK as well as in Hayonim Cave in Israel. Additional occupations include working for an ethical company developing pharmaceuticals from cannabis, as an assistant in a zoo vet's lab and as an information scientist.

She was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1974. She lives in the UK. She has a message board at Night Shade Books. Her website is at [http://www.stephswainston.co.uk www.stephswainston.co.uk] Sample chapters of her novels are free online on [http://www.stephswainston.co.uk/the_books the books page of her website] .

ources

* [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/QandA.aspx?id=11111&catID=1 Orion Books Author Q and A]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060753870&tc=ai HarperCollins interview]

External links

* [http://www.stephswainston.co.uk Official site]
* [http://www.nightshadebooks.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi Night Shade Books Discussion Boards]
* [http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2005/05/on-the-spot-at-bookspotcentral-steph-swainston/ Interview] conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com
* [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/swainston_interview.html Interview] conducted by Jeff VanderMeer for Clarkesworld Magazine
* [http://www.duskbeforethedawn.net/category/science-fiction/steph-swainston/ Reviews] of all three books in the Castle series

Источник: Steph Swainston

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