Paul J. McAuley
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Verk av Paul J. McAuley
Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was: A Tor.Com Original (2016) 17 exemplar
Recording Angel {novelette} 10 exemplar
Crimes and Glory 8 exemplar
Gene Wars [short fiction] 8 exemplar
Dead Men Walking 8 exemplar
The Two Dicks 7 exemplar
Incomers 6 exemplar
The Thought War 6 exemplar
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2023] — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
The Temporary King [short fiction] 5 exemplar
Karl and the Ogre 5 exemplar
Sea Change with Monsters 5 exemplar
The Passenger 4 exemplar
17 4 exemplar
Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden (Short story) (2012) 4 exemplar
Little Lost Robot 4 exemplar
The Temptation of Dr. Stein [short fiction] 4 exemplar
All Tomorrow's Parties 3 exemplar
Naming The Dead 3 exemplar
Prison Dreams (novelette) 3 exemplar
Rats of the System 3 exemplar
Cross Roads Blues 3 exemplar
The King Of The Hill [short fiction] 3 exemplar
Little Ilya and Spider and Box (novelette) 3 exemplar
Exiles [short fiction] 3 exemplar
Shadow Life (short story) 2 exemplar
Bone Orchards 2 exemplar
A Brief Guide To Other Histories 2 exemplar
The Man (Short story) 2 exemplar
The Madness Of Crowds 2 exemplar
Meat (short story) 2 exemplar
The True History Of Doctor Pretorius 2 exemplar
Inheritance 2 exemplar
Wild Honey {short story} 2 exemplar
Interstitial 2 exemplar
The Airs of Earth [Short story] 2 exemplar
Residuals 2 exemplar
Assassination Of Faustino Malarte 2 exemplar
Elves of Antarctica {short story} 2 exemplar
A Very British History - Additional Stories 2 exemplar
Războiul liniștit 2 exemplar
Rocket Boy (novelette) 2 exemplar
Transcendence [Short story] 2 exemplar
The Heirs of Earth [Short story] 2 exemplar
The Gardens of Saturn 1 exemplar
Blade And Bone 1 exemplar
Back Door Man 1 exemplar
Novacon 28 Special: Alien TV 1 exemplar
Maryon's Gift 1 exemplar
Rats Dream Of The Future 1 exemplar
Danger: Hard Hack Area 1 exemplar
Penance 1 exemplar
Planet of Fear (novelette) 1 exemplar
The Proxy 1 exemplar
I Spy 1 exemplar
The Rift 1 exemplar
Alien Tv 1 exemplar
Before The Flood 1 exemplar
Antarctica Starts Here 1 exemplar
Life As We Know It 1 exemplar
Space Fever 1 exemplar
Barbara Allen and Sweet Billie 1 exemplar
Crossroads [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Transitional Forms (short story) 1 exemplar
Take me to the river 1 exemplar
Adventure 1 exemplar
Dr Luther's assistant [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Prometheus Warps the F-Ring 1 exemplar
Karyl's War 1 exemplar
A dragon for Seymour Chan [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Edna Sharrow 1 exemplar
Straight to Hell 1 exemplar
Child of the Stones 1 exemplar
The Secret Of My Success 1 exemplar
Heaven Is A Place 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 510 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 433 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 391 exemplar
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 367 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 333 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 283 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 249 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 241 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 239 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 156 exemplar
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 138 exemplar
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 130 exemplar
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 50 exemplar
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1992, Vol. 82, No. 4 (1992) — Författare — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1999, Vol. 96, No. 3 (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Författare — 10 exemplar
Subterranean Magazine Spring 2009 — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- McAuley, Paul J.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- McAuley, Paul James
- Andra namn
- McAuley, Paul
- Födelsedag
- 1955-04-23
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Engeland
- Födelseort
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, Engeland
- Bostadsorter
- Londen, Engeland
St. Andrews, Schotland - Yrken
- Botanicus
SF auteur - Organisationer
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1992)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
io9 Book Club (1)
SF Masterworks (2)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 134
- Även av
- 148
- Medlemmar
- 6,032
- Popularitet
- #4,080
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 174
- ISBN
- 210
- Språk
- 10
- Favoritmärkt
- 6
The story moves at a great pace and the London setting is convincing. The graffiti art, obviously inspired by Banksy, also convinces. Alfie Flowers and the other characters are all well-drawn, to the extent that when some of them die, there is something of a sense of shock. The plot is, in equal parts, a mix of le Carré, Indiana Jones and The Long Good Friday; written in 2005, it is set contemporaneously and so the technology hasn't dated.
My one concern is that the device of the glyphs inevitably recalls David Langford's Basilisk stories about mind-altering graphics, especially BLIT and the 2001 Hugo-winner Different Kinds of Darkness. It is highly unlikely that McAuley was unaware of these stories - the British science fiction community is a pretty small one - but Dave Langford himself is too nice a person to mention this.
And when did the CIA stop referring to itself internally as "the Company"? Some operatives, both serving and former, make an appearance, and keep talking about "the Agency". Is this officially a thing now?
That apart, this is a compulsive page-turner with an unusual premise and appealing characters.… (mer)