Unconquered Countries - Softcover
From the bestselling author of 253, a new edition of four stunning fabulist novellas.
The four novellas in this collection are a tribute to the power of Geoff Ryman’s imagination. His range is extraordinary – from unsettling dystopia (O Happy Day!) to spectacular extrapolations (A Fall of Angels}, from a compelling study of obsession (Fan) to a poweful modern fable (multi-award winning Unconquered Country).
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From his stories in the Hugo Award winning Interzone, via Was, his examination of the reality and fantasy behind The Wizard of Oz, to his bestselling hypertext novel 253, Geoff Ryman has conducted a series of dazzling experiments with the very nature of storytelling. Through this restless innovation, he has constantly explored the gulf between appearance and truth, the way people enact mythologies to fulfil profound inner needs, then become trapped by their own creations.
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In the previously unpublished "A Fall of Angels", humanity has reached the stars, created "angels" from former humans, and is engaged in a fantastical quest to refuel the dying stars and so defeat entropy. Rich in ideas and beautifully characterised, "A Fall of Angels" is a fusion of hard science fiction and sense-of-wonder poetry. "Fan" questions the reality behind the virtual images of pop music, taking the concept of silicon-enhanced celebrity to its logical conclusion. The challenging "O Happy Day!" considers what happens when ideology replaces reason: in a death camp for heterosexual men the solution is infinitely worse than the problem. The collection ends with the novella "The Unconquered Country", Ryman's allegorical, phantasmagorical response to the horrors of recent Cambodian history. It is a staggering, breathtaking achievement, which rightly won many awards on original publication. Once read, it will never be forgotten. Each story in this book is the product of Geoff Ryman's remarkable imagination, taken together they make a compelling account of one of the finest writers around. --Gary S. Dalkin
‘Searing and brilliant’
NEIL GAIMAN, TODAY
‘A writer of large ambitions and many skills’
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
‘A stylistically dazzling box of fireworks... Of 253, we could one day be saying, They don’t write numbers like that anymore’
GLASGOW HERALD
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- PublisherVoyager
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 000648347X
- ISBN 13 9780006483472
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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