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Air: Or, Have Not Have

by Geoff Ryman

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ISBN13: 9780312261214
ISBN10: 0312261217
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"Air is wonderful...Ryman is a true, graceful writer and this is a novel you move into and inhabit for as long as you can make it last."
Kit Reed - author of Seven for the Apocalypse & @expectations

"Reading the first sentence of Geoff Ryman's brilliant new novel is like passing through a Tipping Point. The instant he touches you with his story, you're caught, and the world changes as suddenly as Paul Revere changed America: because it brings the news. Air is a message from the future beyond broadband. More than a message, it's a tip. Listen to Geoff Ryman and you're already on the inside track."
- John Clute, author of The Book of Endtimes

"Say that we are all already living in Air, and need with all our heart to know better what it means and how it works. That would be one way of describing the continuous pleasure of reading this great novel--the thrill of recognition. It is like a magic mirror--we are in Chung Mae and she is in us, and her world is utterly alive. What more can fiction do."
- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy & The Years of Rice and Salt

Synopsis:

"Air is wonderful...Ryman is a true, graceful writer and this is a novel you move into and inhabit for as long as you can make it last."Kit Reed - author of Seven for the Apocalypse & @expectations"Reading the first sentence of Geoff Ryman's brilliant new novel is like passing through a Tipping Point. The instant he touches you with his story, you're caught, and the world changes as suddenly as Paul Revere changed America: because it brings the news. Air is a message from the future beyond broadband. More than a message, it's a tip. Listen to Geoff Ryman and you're already on the inside track."- John Clute, author of The Book of Endtimes"Say that we are all already living in Air, and need with all our heart to know better what it means and how it works. That would be one way of describing the continuous pleasure of reading this great novel--the thrill of recognition. It is like a magic mirror--we are in Chung Mae and she is in us, and her world is utterly alive. What more can fiction do."- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy & The Years of Rice and Salt

About the Author

Geoff Ryman is the author of 253, Was, The Child Garden, and The Unconquered Country. He has won the World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and The British Science Fiction Association Award. He lives in London, England

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Richard Alsen, March 25, 2007 (view all comments by Richard Alsen)
Geoff Ryman's Air won the Arthur C Clarke Award last year and so my sf book club recently chose it. The story centres around the impending arrival of Air, a system about to go live that will give everyone, everywhere access to the web directly through their thoughts. (Sound familiar? I know kung-fu). But what sets this book apart from that popular trope is that Ryman sets the scene in a remote Asian village that has never had access to the web before. That contrast, between the last place on earth to go online and the new global culture about to overwhelm their thoughts, gives the story a vitality and a great new slant on a popular sf notion.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312261214
Subtitle:
Or, Have Not Have
Author:
Ryman, Geoff
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Location:
New York
Subject:
Communication
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Technological innovations
Subject:
Gay
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Older women
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
First
Series Volume:
TR-02-1
Publication Date:
October 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
8.26x5.46x1.03 in. .80 lbs.

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