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Castigatorii World Fantasy Awards 2010

November 1st, 2010 1 comment
  • NOVEL: The City & The City, China Miéville (Macmillan UK/ Del Rey)
  • NOVELLA: Sea-Hearts – Margo Lanagan (X6 )
  • SHORT STORY: The Pelican Bar – Karen Joy Fowler (Eclipse Three)
  • ANTHOLOGY: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now editat de Peter Straub (Library of America)
  • COLLECTION (TIE):
    • There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales – Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Penguin)
    • The Very Best of Gene Wolfe/The Best of Gene Wolfe – Gene Wolfe (PS /Tor)
  • ARTIST: Charles Vess
  • SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL: Jonathan Strahan pentru editarea de antologii
  • SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL: Susan Marie Groppi – Strange Horizons
  • WORLD FANTASY LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett, and Peter Straub.

Premiile Locus 2010

June 27th, 2010 5 comments
  • BEST SF NOVEL: Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)
  • BEST FANTASY NOVEL: The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)
  • BEST FIRST NOVEL: The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade)!!!
  • BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK: Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
  • BEST NOVELLA: The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, Kage Baker (Subterranean)

  • BEST NOVELETTE: “By Moonlight”, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother)
  • BEST SHORT STORY: “An Invocation of Incuriosity”, Neil Gaiman (Songs of the Dying Earth)
  • BEST ANTHOLOGY: The New Space Opera 2, Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (Eos; HarperCollins Australia)
  • BEST COLLECTION: The Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe (Tor); as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (PS)
  • BEST NON-FICTION BOOK/ART BOOK: Cheek by Jowl, Ursula K. Le Guin (Aqueduct)
  • BEST ARTIST: Michael Whelan
  • BEST EDITOR: Ellen Datlow
  • BEST MAGAZINE: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction!!!
  • BEST BOOK PUBLISHER: Tor

The City & The City – China Mieville

June 4th, 2010 59 comments

thecityandthecitybychinamievilleCred ca toata lumea stie de acum cam pe despre ce e vorba in romanul lui China Mieville, The City & The City.

Actiunea se desfasoara de-a lungul a doua orase invecinate, din sud-estul Europei, Beszel si Ul Qoma. Pina acum nimic nou, insa particularitatea consta in faptul ca aceste orase sunt plasate fizic in acelasi loc, cetatenii fiecaruia ignorandu-i deliberat si semi-constient pe cei ai orasului rival. Nu v-am spus, dar intre cele doua orase relatiile nu sunt chiar asa de stranse, existand animozitati si sustinatori fanatici ai superioritatii orasului natal in fiecare tabara. In acest cadru fantastic inspectorul de politie din Beszel, Tyador Borlu, ancheteaza moartea unei tinere studente, o sustinatoare infocata a ideii cum ca un al treilea oras, Orciny, supravegheaza din umbra intreaga activitate a celor doi vecini.

Primele 40-50 de pagini din carte mi s-au parut istovitoare si daca nu era vorba de Mieville si de faptul ca majoritatea a fost entuziasmata de volum, nu prea aveam rabdare sa continui. Nu am vizualizat aproape deloc spatiile descrise de autor si nici nu am manifestat vreo tendinta spre a ma chinui prea tare. Fiecare pauza de dialog a fost ca o gura de aer rece si inviorator, silindu-ma sa savurez cu nesat fiecare cuvint in parte. Si asta nu din cauza ca Mieville e vreun maestru in arta vorbirii si a discutiilor orale, ci pentru ca eu m-am simtit dominat de aceasta stare de confuzie in ceea ce priveste harta celor doua orase si modul in care interactionau cetatenii acestora.

In plus, se aduc in discutie cam multe factiuni si organizatii secrete si altele care mai de care mai pseudo-paramilitare, ultranationaliste sau chiar naziste. Secretomania e la ordinea zilei. Read more…

China Mieville wins Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010 (Macmillan)

April 29th, 2010 No comments

Si chiar si asa nu am tragere de inima sa ma apuc de roman :D

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Si un mic filmulet…Multumesc rreugen!

A aparut The city&the city…

May 14th, 2009 19 comments

De ceva zile bune a aparut ultimul roman a lui China Mieville, The city & the city. Mai multe detalii in videoclipul de mai jos. L-am gasit si pe Suvudu, insa l-am preluat de pe youtube.

Si iata si coperta:

Varianta Europeana de la Macmillan

China Mie

Varianta US si Canada, Del Rey

The City & The City (US)

Si coperta alternativa de la Subterranean Press

The City and the City alt

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The body of a murdered woman is discovered in the remarkable, crumbling European city of Besźel. Such a crime is par for the course for Inspector Tyador Borlú, who is the premier talent of the Extreme Crime Squad – until his investigations uncover evidence that bizarre and terrifying forces are at work – and soon both he and those around him will be in considerable peril. He must undertake an odyssey, a journey across borders both physical and psychical, to the city which is both a complement and rival to his own, that of Ul Qoma.Like all of China Miéville’s work, The City and The City will not be to everyone’s taste – the very individuality of the prose and the surrealistic inventiveness will not attract those preferring more prosaic fare. But for readers who hanker after untrammelled imagination – and look for literary fare unlike anything they have read before (even, it has to be said, by Miéville himself), then this is a journey to be undertaken. But with caution, perhaps… –Barry Forshaw

A book that constitutes an SF event… Kafka-meets-noir mystery.”‘ –SFX Magazine