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Have you ever read a novel that was so good you almost felt angry at it? I mean, maybe that’s just me, but there is one author who consistently triggers my literary pleasure centers so hard that I get spillover into all my other senses, and that’s Ian McDonald, who has a new novel out: Hopeland: Andreeva, Nellie (17 August 2015). "Shane Brennan To Adapt Ian McDonald's Sci-Fi Book Luna As TV Series". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 10 October 2015. This begins as a fast-paced urban fantasy, then progresses to become an ambitious cli-fi saga. The story is animated by a complicated love story involving (not exclusively) the electrifyingly spunky Raisa Hopeland and the cursedly fortunate Amon Brightbourne. McDonald's unique writing style is a real feature of the novel. His concise and spare sentences are routinely intermingled with carefully-wrought metaphors: like a cross between Ernest Hemmingway and James Joyce. There some really gripping descriptive passages too, including of a global warming-supercharged cyclone as it hits a South Pacific Island. Ian McDonald has written so many straight-up, sci-fi masterpieces that I'll always read anything he publishes. This is a good novel: it's fun and serious. Yet this long book at times felt unfocused and hard to get through. In particular, the tempestuous relationship between Raisa & Amon - so central to the plot - seemed underdeveloped.

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2004 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 3 May 2009. a b "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 March 2009. Beautifuly written, masterly delivered, and I just couldn't care less about the people and the (quite epic and eventful) plot. I'm pretty sure it's me. Throughout his career, Ian McDonald has demon strated a remarkable versatility of style and language - Locus Magazine And this is what I’m not sure about, because this blending of fantasy-romance with speculative science fiction is kinda like the thing those literary novelists end up doing when they try to write genre.McDonald 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] Raisa's family are the Hopelands - more than a family, really; not a nation, certainly not an ethnicity or religion although with aspects of the latter. It takes the notion of 'found family' to extraordinary and glorious places and challenged a lot of how I think about family, how it's constructed and what it's for. Amon is a Brightbourne, a very different family but with its own legacy to contribute (and his family is where I started wondering if this was a fantasy of some sort). We first follow Raisa, who wanders in a kind of distraught fugue across the globe until she ends up in Iceland. And there she will stay for the next twenty-two years, bearing Amon’s son and creating a new community and high-tech business that will come to have global reach and consequences. I remain intentionally vague, so as not to spoil your fun. Alexander, Niall (12 June 2014). "Step into the Stars: Reach for Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan". Tor.com . Retrieved 13 December 2015.

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It was a treat, a different type of treat even if it's a bit too obscure at time. The language is lyrical and complex, the storytelling hypnotic. 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. Hopeland family is found family – while some people are born into it, most of them are adopted into it by choice. It's a loose affiliation of people who share a kind of religion, but it's not cult-ish; there's no central figure that controls things, people are spread all over the world, and everybody is a star – at least, they have a star (like Vega or Altair) in their Hopeland name. Each of McDonald’s viewpoint characters is made human in fascinating and occasionally disturbing detail, and the solar system of the 22nd century is wonderfully delineated." — Publishers Weekly, starred review on Luna: Wolf MoonThe story starts in London, in 2011, where we meet the two main characters. Amon Brightbourne is a musician and composer, and, as we soon learn, someone who has been touched by a charm that makes things always work out well for him but not well for anything or anyone he hangs around with for too long. He meets Raisa Peri Antares Hopeland, who takes his phone, because hers is running out of power and she needs its mapping power to win the race to become a new arcmage, an Electromancer, someone who controls one of the great Tesla coils that protect the north. She is part of the Hopeland family, a vast extended family, that really redefines the whole concept of family. a b "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 3 May 2009.

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