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This title in other formats:Brasylby Ian McDonald
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. Three separate stories follow three main characters:
Review:"British author McDonald's outstanding SF novel channels the vitality of South America's largest country into an edgy, post-cyberpunk free-for-all. McDonald sets up three separate characters in different eras — a cynical contemporary reality-TV producer, a near-future bisexual entrepreneur and a tormented 18th-century Jesuit agent. He then slams them together with the revelation that their worlds are strands of an immense quantum multiverse, and each of them is threatened by the Order, a vast conspiracy devoted to maintaining the status quo until the end of time. As McDonald weaves together the separate narrative threads, each character must choose between isolation or cooperation, and also between accepting things as they are or taking desperate action to make changes possible. River of Gods (2004), set in near-future India, established McDonald as a leading writer of intelligent, multicultural SF, and here he captures Latin America's mingled despair and hope. Chaotic, heartbreaking and joyous, this must-read teeters on the edge of melodrama, but somehow keeps its precarious balance." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"McDonald takes on frenetic, vast, fascinating Brasil in this epic interweaving three time-strands....McDonald's Brasyl is a magnificent place, and the motivations and possible results of the battle over the multitude of quantum universes it posits are chilling and wonderful." Booklist (starred review) Review:"McDonald has outdone his prodigious self. A novel that makes magic from technology, alien worlds from the everyday. A novel of swordfights and quantum physics, of sly reality-TV humor and sheer poetry. I loved these people, I rooted for them. McDonald has so many writer tricks that I could read this book a hundred times and learn something new every time." Cory Doctorow, co-editor, boingboing.net, and author of Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present Review:"[McDonald's] characters are utterly believable, grounded in their unique pasts and presents" Sci Fi Weekly Review:"[A] grand novel spanning centuries and realities....McDonald imagines a history of Brazil that challenges all preconceptions, and he has a gift for wordsmithing, creating lyrical passages of superb storytelling that move with the times while remaining both current and timeless. Libraries of all sizes would benefit from adding this title to their sf collections." Library Journal Review:"[R]ichly textured in terms of evoking the notion of Brazil as a truly alien place...very enjoyable." Locus Review:"Brasyl is a fantastic, fast-moving thought experiment packaged as a novel, wrapped in a love story." BookPage Synopsis:Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part Sci-Fi, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. About the AuthorIan McDonald is the author of many science fiction novels, including River of Gods, Desolation Road, King of Morning, Queen of Day, Out on Blue Six, Chaga, and Kirinya. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award and the BSFA Award, been nominated for a Hugo Award, and has several nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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