Hopeland

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a b Liptak, Andrew (29 December 2017). "The best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels of 2017". The Verge . Retrieved 2 January 2018. I also love some of the digs at some recent trendy technologies like crypto. It treats them with the suspicion that they deserve.

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This techy thriller opens with a desperate heart-pumping race through 20th century London, where the lives of Amon Brightbourne and Raisa Hopeland collide in the midst of anarchy. Wielding lightning, Raisa seizes the Tesla coil for her people, becomes the Arcmage of Spitalfields, and triggers cataclysmic events that will span decades. Mesmerized by her, Amon follows her into the bizarre world of the Hopelands. If every person is a star, the Hopelands are a constellation, a cultish people with a story. He’s drawn to their family because he was exiled from his own, due to the Grace, which grants him a charmed life to the detriment of those around him. There is a fair amount of gender fluidity also, especially with Raisa's child Alti, who starts out as a non-gendered 'kid' (as all Hopeland kids do), then becomes a boy, then becomes multiple, both a he and a hé. Just what a hé is, is a little undefined (although hé looks fabulous). Alti is one of the more intriguing characters, and possibly the foremost expression of what it means to be a member of the Hopeland family. A visionary literary SF novel about a vast family intimately linked - a new way for mankind to live. Tonight (May 30) at 6:30PM, I’m at the NOTTINGHAM Waterstones with my novel Red Team Blues, hosted by Christian Reilly (MMT Podcast). But it starts in more familiar disunity, with a frenzied but typically vibrant panorama of the 2011 London riots:

His phone . . .’ He thinks about the truth. Truth and Grace are not necessary lovers. ‘His phone died.’ always, the Clarke shortlist has generated excellent structural and substantive analysis. As in previous years (2017 and 2022), in… What a wonderful book. I've liked McDonald since his Luna series, and when I saw that he had a new book out, I had to give it a try.

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He sees the moment the life and hope run out of a man. He sees him go to his knees. He hears a thing he hoped never to hear again, a man howl as if his bones were wrenched through flesh. In the name of love, he has done the worst thing in his life.I've enjoyed Ian McDonald's fiction for a long time: Desolation Road is a favourite from my teenage years and I also remember Chaga very fondly. So when I discovered he'd written a long climate novel, I was excited to read it. Although climate change is very important to the narrative, I found Hopeland happier and more fantastical than I expected. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the title! I read the whole thing in one day, while feeling under the weather on the sofa. It lifted my mood overall, while also making me cry. This is unusual, as it seems to require sincere solidarity and hope amid disaster. Tragedy alone doesn't move me to tears. But at the core of Hopeland are community, love, and human persistence, which apparently do. And it isn't just me: Cory Doctorow cried over it too and at a livestreamed event Iain McDonald gleefully claimed that every reader cries at three points.

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He measures up the gap. Run in, launch, the landing, traction: all against him. For him: the Grace. He makes his run, throws himself over the street, lands hard, pitches forward, breaks his fall with his hands. A time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen beforeMcDonald published Luna: New Moon, the first volume of a proposed science fiction duology, in 2015. [9] [13] [14] It explores the dangerous intrigue that surrounds the five powerful families who control industry on the Moon. [9] McDonald said of the novel in August 2014, "I’m still writing about developing economies, it’s just that this one happens to be on the Moon." [9] Before critics called the novel " Game of Thrones in space", [13] [15] [16] McDonald himself dubbed it " Game of Domes" and " Dallas in space". [9] Luna was optioned for development as a television series before its release. [15] [17] The sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, was released in March 2017. [18] A third novel, Luna: Moon Rising, [19] was released in March 2019. [20] McDonald previously published the novelette "The Fifth Dragon", a prequel to Luna in the same setting, in the 2014 anthology Reach for Infinity. [9] [21] [22] Ian McDonald’s latest novel, Hopeland, is many things. It’s a fantasy novel with a strong science fictional core. Or it’s a science fiction novel with elements of fantasy. It’s an examination of new ways of making a family, and it’s an exploration of gender. It’s a great piece of climate fiction, and a novel about how we can cope, how we can do better, as the world gets more hostile. Music plays in important part. So does planning for the long term. And there are even elements of steampunk. All of this in a novel with a compelling cast of characters, told in a beautiful, literary style. It’s not a fast read — at least not for me, as I found myself slowing down at points to appreciate the prose — but it’s an enjoyable, fulfilling one. This will certainly be on my Hugo nominations ballot next year. She is a rooftop away already, crouching against the air-glow of Rich- mond Buildings like a superheroine. The higher lights of Soho Square hang like a sequin curtain behind her. A young electromancer, Raisa Hopeland, meets a young musician dressed in tweed, Amon Brightbourne on a night of rioting in London. It is love at first sight and they indeed fall in love. But their destinies lie in different directions. Raisa, carrying Amon's child, goes to Iceland, where she changes the world. Amon goes to the South Pacific, where he creates music and helps save a nation. Together, they save the planet for centuries to come.

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She turns on the ladder and throws a tablet of glow down to him. Her phone. As he holds it in his cupped hands like a sacrament, it drops into power-saving mode. Five percent. He switches it off. And that's where the real core of this novel comes to play: The world itself, from the early early days of the Hopeland people to where we really follow our MCs in the early 2010's, and how they grow older, change to the ecological disasters and upheavals deep into the 2030's and beyond. music of extreme duration and the climate crisis; the sort of thing that inspired the Music in Ian McDonald’s Hopeland, devices to help us project our imagination lifetimes into the future, some at an even grander […] I'll admit I hadn't read the blurb. It's Ian McDonald, and it's called Hopeland... why would I read the blurb? So part of my confusion is my own fault. But having now looked at the blurb it's actually of little to no use in explaining what on earth this is about, so I don't feel too bad. For all that I can see Hopeland as perhaps being Ian’s best work – and I am sure that there will be other readers who love it – I liked it, rather than loved it. Frankly, there were times where it became a slog, where I just wanted the plot to get on with it.a b "Ian McDonald – Be My Enemy ( Everness Book Two) cover art and synopsis reveal". 25 August 2012. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014 . Retrieved 3 October 2018– via Upcoming4.me.