Paul J. McAuley, Author . Tor $25.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0080-5
Having completed the Books of Confluence, his much-praised trilogy set in the distant future, Clarke and Dick awards winner McAuley (Shrine of Stars) here tries his hand at a near-future, hard-science thriller. The year is 2026, and the world is...
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Paul J. McAuley, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (424p) ISBN 978-0-688-12757-2
Ambitious but disappointing, this new work by the author of Four Hundred Billion Stars is set centuries in the future after humans have won a war with a race of vicious xenophobic aliens at a distant stellar outpost. Towards the end of these...
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Paul J. McAuley, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (392p) ISBN 978-0-688-13793-9
This is not so much a story of character as of place-specifically, the partially terraformed planet of Mars, nearly 600 years in the future. Through a kiss, Wei Lee, an ``itinerant agronomist technician,'' is infected with technoviruses that give...
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Paul J. McAuley, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (374p) ISBN 978-0-688-14154-7
Scotsman McAuley (Philip A. Dick Award-winning Four Hundred Billion Stars; Red Dust) has written an ambitious, often brilliant novel of alternate history. Renaissance Florence provides the richly portrayed historical backdrop. But, in McAuley's...
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Paul J. McAuley, Author Eos $16 (386p) ISBN 978-0-380-97516-7
In McAuley's followup to Child of the River, named a PW Best Book of 1998, Yama continues his quest for identity, still pursued by the implacable Prefect Corin of the Department of Indigenous Affairs, who would subvert Yama's burgeoning psychic...
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Paul McCauley. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $16.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-0-575-10075-6
McCauley demonstrates his talent for complex and imaginative storytelling in this superior space opera set in the 22nd century, the third in his Quiet War series (after 2009’s Gardens of the Sun). One of the main threads concerns an unnamed child...
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Paul McAuley. Gollancz (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $16.95 trade paper (376p) ISBN 978-0-575-10081-7
The fourth in McCauley’s Quiet War space opera series (after In the Mouth of the Whale) is a typically imaginative and complex vision of the far future. Nineteen-year-old Gajananvihari “Hari” Pilot is a member of a family of junk peddlers, who...
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