Arthur C. Clarke Award - Nominierte

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    WHERE NO ONE ELSE DARE VENTURE…


    Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty online 419 scam habit – and a talent for finding lost things. But when her latest client, a little old lady, turns up dead and the cops confiscate her lastpaycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job: missing persons


    An astonishing second novel from the author of the highly-acclaimed Moxyland.


    Über die Autorin
    Lauren Beukes (born on 5 June 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and TV scriptwriter. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and her daughter.

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    In the CHAGA novels Ian McDonald brought an Africa in the grip of a bizarre alien invasion to life, in RIVER OF GODS he painted a rich portrait of India in 2047, in BRASYL he looked at different Brazils, past present and future. Ian McDonald has found renown at the cutting edge of a movement to take SF away from its British and American white roots and out into the rich cultures of the world. THE DERVISH HOUSE continues that journey and centres on Istanbul in 2025. Turkey is part of Europe but sited on the edge, it is an Islamic country that looks to the West. THE DERVISH HOUSE is the story of the families that live in and around its titular house, it is at once a rich mosaic of Islamic life in the new century and a telling novel of future possibilities.


    Über den Autor
    Ian McDonald was born in Manchester in 1960. His family moved to Northern Ireland in 1965. He now lives in Belfast and works in TV production. The author of many previous novels including the groundbreaking Chaga books set in Africa, Ian McDonald has long been at the cutting edge of SF. RIVER OF GODS won the BSFA AWARD in 2005.

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    This is the electrifying finale to the multiple award-winning trilogy, "Chaos Walking". 'War', says the Mayor. 'At last'. Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge...The electrifying finale to the award-winning "Chaos Walking" trilogy, "Monsters of Men" is a heart-stopping novel about power, survival, and the devastating realities of war.



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    Patrick Ness is the author of The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer - books one and two in the Chaos Walking trilogy - for which he has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie medal. Patrick has written two other books for adults and is a literary critic for the Guardian. He lives in London.

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    Was wäre, wenn es ein Glücks-Gen gäbe? Diese Frage erforscht Richard Powers, einer der wichtigsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller der Gegenwart, in seinem neuen, brillanten Roman: Als der Lehrer Russel Stone die junge algerische Frau Thassa als Schülerin aufnimmt, ist er von ihrer leuchtenden Erscheinung bezaubert und verwirrt zugleich. Wie kann ein jemand, der vor dem Terror im eigenen Land floh, solch eine Glückseligkeit ausstrahlen? Bald wird Thassas außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit zum Forschungsobjekt des berühmten Genetikers Thomas Kurton, der die Entdeckung der genetischen Bedingtheit des Glücks verkünden will. Doch Thassas genetisches Geheimnis wird nicht nur Kurton und Stone verändern, sondern die gesamte Welt.


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    Richard Powers, geb. 1957, lebt in Urbana/Illinois. Er studierte Physik, arbeitete als Programmierer, bis er mit 32 seinen ersten Roman schrieb. Mittlerweile zählt er zu den ganz großen amerikanischen Erzählern der Gegenwart. Seine Bücher wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem National Book Award. Seine Beiträge erschienen in der New York Times, Esquire, Times und Harper's.

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    This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it's 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah's ark. James Theodora is the über-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There's plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of A Thousand and One Nights, which is Hale's guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and amonon plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There's a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.



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    Tim Powers, 1952 in Buffalo geboren, gilt als einer der vielseitigsten und kompromisslosesten Autoren der angloamerikanischen Phantastik. Der Durchbruch gelang ihm mit dem Roman "The Drawing of the Dark", in dem er die geheime Geschichte der Belagerung von Wien im 16. Jahrhundert schildert. Er wurde mit zahlreichen renommierten Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter zuletzt mit dem World Fantasy Award für den phantastischen Spionage-Thriller "Declare".

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    Lightborn, better known as 'shine', is a mind-altering technology that has revolutionised the modern world. It is the ultimate in education, self-improvement and entertainment - beamed directly into the brain of anyone who can meet the asking price. But in the city of Los Sombres, renegade shine has attacked the adult population, resulting in social chaos and widespread insanity in everyone past the age of puberty. The only solution has been to turn off the Field and isolate the city. Trapped within the quarantine perimeter, fourteen-year-old Xavier just wants to find the drug that can keep his own physical maturity at bay until the army shuts down the shine. That's how he meets Roksana, mysteriously impervious to shine and devoted to helping the stricken. As the military invades street by street, Xavier and Roksana discover that there could be hope for Los Sombres - but only if Xavier will allow a lightborn cure to enter his mind. What he doesn't know is that the shine in question has a mind of its own ...


    Über die Autorin:
    Tricia Sullivan was born in New Jersey in 1968 and received a music degree from Bard College and a Master's in Education from Columbia University. She taught in Manhattan and New Jersey before moving to the UK in 1995. DREAMING IN SMOKE won the 1999 Arthur C. Clarke award.