America City (eBook)

From the Arthur C. Clarke winner and bestselling author of the Eden Trilogy

Chris Beckett (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
416 Seiten
Corvus (Verlag)
978-1-78649-153-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning Author 'An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow will be turbulent indeed.' - Guardian America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together - or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?

Chris Beckett is a former social worker and now university lecturer who lives in Cambridge. In 2009 he won the Edge Hill Short Story competition for his collection of stories, The Turing Test.

Autor

Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker living in Cambridge. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Adrian Tchaikovsky • America • arrival • arthur c clarke • arthur c clarke award • Athur C Clarke • award winning sci fi • award winning SF • Becky Chambers • children of time • Cixin Liu • climate change • Dark Eden • Disease • Droughts • dystopian • Dystopian Fiction • Eden • eden trilogy • Environment • Flooding • global warming • Houston Texas floods • Ian M. Banks • M. John Harrison • mother of eden • natural disaster • North • Science Fiction • science fiction and fantasy • science fiction books • Sci Fi • sci fi trilogies • sea-levels rising • SF trilogy • short story writer • South • the holy machine • Trump
• ISBN-10: 1-78649-153-2 / 1786491532
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-153-4 / 9781786491534