Paul J. McAuley
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Værker af Paul J. McAuley
Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was: A Tor.Com Original (2016) 17 eksemplarer
Recording Angel {novelette} 10 eksemplarer
Crimes and Glory 8 eksemplarer
Gene Wars [short fiction] 8 eksemplarer
Dead Men Walking 8 eksemplarer
The Two Dicks 7 eksemplarer
Incomers 6 eksemplarer
The Thought War 6 eksemplarer
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2023] — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Temporary King [short fiction] 5 eksemplarer
Karl and the Ogre 5 eksemplarer
Sea Change with Monsters 5 eksemplarer
The Passenger 4 eksemplarer
17 4 eksemplarer
Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden (Short story) (2012) 4 eksemplarer
Little Lost Robot 4 eksemplarer
The Temptation of Dr. Stein [short fiction] 4 eksemplarer
All Tomorrow's Parties 3 eksemplarer
Naming The Dead 3 eksemplarer
Prison Dreams (novelette) 3 eksemplarer
Rats of the System 3 eksemplarer
Cross Roads Blues 3 eksemplarer
The King Of The Hill [short fiction] 3 eksemplarer
Little Ilya and Spider and Box (novelette) 3 eksemplarer
Exiles [short fiction] 3 eksemplarer
Shadow Life (short story) 2 eksemplarer
Bone Orchards 2 eksemplarer
A Brief Guide To Other Histories 2 eksemplarer
The Man (Short story) 2 eksemplarer
The Madness Of Crowds 2 eksemplarer
Meat (short story) 2 eksemplarer
The True History Of Doctor Pretorius 2 eksemplarer
Inheritance 2 eksemplarer
Wild Honey {short story} 2 eksemplarer
Interstitial 2 eksemplarer
The Airs of Earth [Short story] 2 eksemplarer
Residuals 2 eksemplarer
Assassination Of Faustino Malarte 2 eksemplarer
Elves of Antarctica {short story} 2 eksemplarer
A Very British History - Additional Stories 2 eksemplarer
Războiul liniștit 2 eksemplarer
Rocket Boy (novelette) 2 eksemplarer
Transcendence [Short story] 2 eksemplarer
The Heirs of Earth [Short story] 2 eksemplarer
The Gardens of Saturn 1 eksemplar
Blade And Bone 1 eksemplar
Gravesend, Or, Everyday Life In The Anthropocene 1 eksemplar
Back Door Man 1 eksemplar
Novacon 28 Special: Alien TV 1 eksemplar
Maryon's Gift 1 eksemplar
Rats Dream Of The Future 1 eksemplar
Searching For Van Gogh At The End Of The World 1 eksemplar
Danger: Hard Hack Area 1 eksemplar
Penance 1 eksemplar
Planet of Fear (novelette) 1 eksemplar
The Proxy 1 eksemplar
I Spy 1 eksemplar
The Rift 1 eksemplar
Alien Tv 1 eksemplar
Before The Flood 1 eksemplar
Antarctica Starts Here 1 eksemplar
Life As We Know It 1 eksemplar
Space Fever 1 eksemplar
Barbara Allen and Sweet Billie 1 eksemplar
Crossroads [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Transitional Forms (short story) 1 eksemplar
Take me to the river 1 eksemplar
Adventure 1 eksemplar
Dr Luther's assistant [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Prometheus Warps the F-Ring 1 eksemplar
Karyl's War 1 eksemplar
A dragon for Seymour Chan [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Edna Sharrow 1 eksemplar
Straight to Hell 1 eksemplar
Child of the Stones 1 eksemplar
The Secret Of My Success 1 eksemplar
Heaven Is A Place 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragyder — 509 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007) — Bidragyder — 434 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Bidragyder — 389 eksemplarer
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Bidragyder — 367 eksemplarer
Zima Blue and Other Stories [Night Shade Books] (2006) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 337 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragyder — 333 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Bidragyder — 284 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Bidragyder — 250 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Bidragyder — 242 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Bidragyder — 239 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014) — Bidragyder — 168 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Bidragyder — 156 eksemplarer
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 137 eksemplarer
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Bidragyder — 132 eksemplarer
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Bidragyder — 129 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017) — Bidragyder — 123 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Bidragyder — 56 eksemplarer
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Bidragyder — 53 eksemplarer
More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017) — Bidragyder — 50 eksemplarer
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 13 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1992, Vol. 82, No. 4 (1992) — Forfatter — 13 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1999, Vol. 96, No. 3 (1999) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Forfatter — 10 eksemplarer
Subterranean Magazine Spring 2009 — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- McAuley, Paul J.
- Juridisk navn
- McAuley, Paul James
- Andre navne
- McAuley, Paul
- Fødselsdato
- 1955-04-23
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Engeland
- Fødested
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, Engeland
- Bopæl
- Londen, Engeland
St. Andrews, Schotland - Erhverv
- Botanicus
SF auteur - Organisationer
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1992)
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- Værker
- 134
- Also by
- 148
- Medlemmer
- 6,019
- Popularitet
- #4,091
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 174
- ISBN
- 210
- Sprog
- 10
- Udvalgt
- 6
The story moves at a great pace and the London setting is convincing. The graffiti art, obviously inspired by Banksy, also convinces. Alfie Flowers and the other characters are all well-drawn, to the extent that when some of them die, there is something of a sense of shock. The plot is, in equal parts, a mix of le Carré, Indiana Jones and The Long Good Friday; written in 2005, it is set contemporaneously and so the technology hasn't dated.
My one concern is that the device of the glyphs inevitably recalls David Langford's Basilisk stories about mind-altering graphics, especially BLIT and the 2001 Hugo-winner Different Kinds of Darkness. It is highly unlikely that McAuley was unaware of these stories - the British science fiction community is a pretty small one - but Dave Langford himself is too nice a person to mention this.
And when did the CIA stop referring to itself internally as "the Company"? Some operatives, both serving and former, make an appearance, and keep talking about "the Agency". Is this officially a thing now?
That apart, this is a compulsive page-turner with an unusual premise and appealing characters.… (mere)