Geoff Ryman, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-31211-4
"Reality's got a hole in it." That's what runs through Michael Blasco's head when he discovers that he has the uncanny ability to bring his fantasies to life in this wacky, inspired third novel by Ryman (Was). The 38-year-old gay
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Geoff Ryman, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-26121-4
On the heels of his whimsical fantasy, Lust
(2003), British author Ryman makes a triumphant return to science fiction in this superbly crafted tale. Life in Kizuldah, a village in Karzistan, has changed little over the centuries, though most homes...
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Geoff Ryman, Author . Small Beer $16 (432p) ISBN 978-1-931520-56-0
After thriving in science fiction (the Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning Air
), Ryman takes on the political history of Cambodia in this unsettling if overlong novel. In 2004, U.N. archeologist Luc Andrade discovers a 12th-century memoir written...
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Geoff Ryman, Author Orb Books $13.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-89023-0
A future city afflicted with a viral epidemic is the setting of Ryman's acclaimed novel; winner of the John W. Cambell and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. (May)
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Geoff Ryman, Author Alfred A. Knopf $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40429-3
In a darkly imaginative, almost surreal improvisation on L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Dorothy Gael, an orphan churning with rage and self-hatred, is repeatedly sexually abused by her Uncle Henry on their Kansas farm. Sadistic, sanctimonious Aunty Em,...
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Geoff Ryman, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-312-05002-3
Ryman's ( The Unconquered Country ) novel belongs to that class of SF stories in which the liberties with science go too far and destroy our suspension of disbelief, but whose rich symbolism and brightly drawn characters keep us nonetheless involved
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Geoff Ryman, Author Penguin Books $15 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-017872-2
Ryman's darkly imaginative, almost surreal improvisation on L. Frank Baum's Oz books combines a stunning portrayal of child abuse, Wizard of Oz film lore and a polyphonic meditation on the psychological burden of the past. (May) *CHILDREN'S...
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Geoff Ryman, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-312-09929-9
Ryman ( Was ) works on a scale as vast as the universe and as intimate as the soul--even when the format is short as it is in the four novellas that make up this collection. His themes beautifully interweave transcendence, death and the dignity of...
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Geoff Ryman, Small Beer (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-931520-64-5
Often contemplative and subtly ironic, the 16 stories in this outstanding collection work imaginative riffs on a variety of fantasy and SF themes. "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter," a Cambodian ghost story, and "The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero...
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Geoff Ryman. ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-927469-38-5
A fantasy revenge quest develops into a mythic exploration of life and death in Ryman’s vivid debut, originally published in 1985. Cal Cara Kerig was five-years-old when her mother was brutally killed for unlawfully prophesying horrors to come....
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Geoff Ryman, Author, Geoff Rymam, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-18295-3
Since a fully occupied London subway car would have 253 seated passengers (including the driver), Ryman's diverting experimental fiction contains 253 character sketches of 253 words each. Taking place on a Bakerloo-line train heading south toward...
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Geoff Ryman. Angry Robot, $17.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-915202-67-3
Ryman (The Warrior Who Carried Life) does a remarkable job of telling anew the story of Jesus of Nazareth. The tale starts familiarly enough with Maryam announcing that she is with child “in an unusual way.” She’s married off to Yosef and the pair...
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