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This is the first UK publication of a new SF adventure by Greg Bear set on a planet populated by Androids. The author has also written "Eon", "Eternity", "Forge of God" and "Blood Music", and has won several science fiction awards.
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Bear works best on a large canvas, and the short story is not his ideal medium--he can carve monumental figures out of mountainsides but is less skilful whittling cherrystones. Nonetheless, there's much here that is interesting to the fan and non-fan alike. For example, this volume includes the original short story out of which Bear's classic, imaginative and deeply spooky novel Blood Music was developed; if the story isn't as powerful as the novel that's only what we'd expect. Certainly as a story it works well, and won both Hugo and Nebula awards. The title story of the collection is another double-winner, and is hauntingly suggestive: it combines a version of Alan Turing with a neat little story about extra-dimensional physics that works efficiently as a tutor in topographical mathematics. Other stories manage varying degrees of control; Sleepside Story, a kind of urban fairy tale, leaves the reader thinking that Bear is better suited to Hard SF after all. Similarly The Dead Run--which was turned into a Twilight Zone episode--is fair enough in a sub-Stephen King sort of way, with its premise of blacklisted truckers driving condemned souls down to Hell in their rigs (and its arresting first sentence: "There aren't many hitchhikers on the road to Hell"). But too few of the stories here trade in the grandeur and wonder of Bear's best, big-scale work. --Adam Roberts
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Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: John Harris (illustrator). 1988 Edition. © 1980: A stand-alone novel by Greg Bear. 1st printing of 1988 edition:- Synopsis: Moments from death, he was thrust into eternal life. Plucked from a sinking aircraft carrier, dumped on a planet populated only by androids, the fighter pilot Yoshio Kawashita soon learned that his alien abductors had taken charge of his life. He had a world of his own, he could create history and indulge any fantasy - yet all Yoshio had wanted was to die fighting for his country; and what's a world when there's no one to share it? Now, suddenly, he is again among humans. But to his rescuers, World War II is a half-forgotten memory, four centuries past. And no one can tell Yoshio who has torn him from his time and place. And why:- Review(s): "He explores the very edge of tomorrow and makes you feel what might happen the day after" - David Brin / "A writer of compelling talent" - New Statesman:- (original cost £2.99). Seller Inventory # 12.011.00552
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