The Invisible Country: Stories
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In these nine extraordinary tales, acclaimed author Paul J. McAuley illuminates the unseen and the unimaginable with brilliant prose and incandescent conceptual daring. These stories explore the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0380792990
ISBN13:9780380792993
Release Date:December 1998
Publisher:Eos
Length:310 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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A coherent world changed by nanotech
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book of short stories was my first experience with McAuley -- which meant that I experienced severe cognitive dissonance. McAuley is one of those writers (like C.J. Cherryh, in her decades-old "Faded Sun" series) who creates a world so different from the one we presently live in that it's sometimes hard to understand what's going on. But after a few stories, one becomes accustomed to the terminology and the ideas, and the plots and philosophies start to become clear. Indeed, the work shortly becomes compelling.I'm not sure that this was the best introduction to McAuley, but I'm glad I read it. I must confess, however, that I particularly enjoyed the stories that were not in the "dolls and fairies" milieu, such as the story about Dr. Pretorius (which I found eerily fascinating, and very reminiscent in tone, if not in content, to Tim Powers's work). I am now very much looking forward to reading "Children of the Confluence" and McAuley's other novels.
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