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Polystom (Gollancz S.F.)

Polystom (Gollancz S.F.)

by Adam Roberts (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2003

    $3.28

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $3.28
Synopsis

Adam Roberts' fourth novel is his most ambitious yet. In a feat of extraordinary world building he creates a universe where a breathable atmosphere extends out between the planets, where aristocrats cruise interstellar space in biplanes, and skywhals make mysterious distant orbits. Then, with bravura plotting he undermines our own notions of reality and leaves the reader unsure which universe to believe. Gaining a reputation as one of the UK's leading SF stylists and masters of the high-concept Roberts, shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award with his debut novel SALT, confirms his extraordinary potential with POLYSTOM.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 15 May 2003
ISBN 10: 0575071796
ISBN 13: 9780575071797
Book Overview: Award nominated, critically feted author Innovative and rewardingly different SF A massive canvas, extraordinary ideas Author is a regular columnist and reviewer

Media Reviews
EVENTS Adam will be appearing at the NFT Crime Scene 2003 with Richard Morgan on Saturday 12th July. Adam Roberts will be reading extracts from his novelat Borders, Oxford Street on 14th July. Adam will also be teaching a SF course at the Cheltenham Festival in October. REVIEWS 'Adam Roberts continues to intrigue, invent and tantalise.'DREAMWATCH 'As ever with Roberts, the writingis sharp and the characters suitably nasty.'THE GUARDIAN 'Roberts is able toinclude the big sf stuff and let it entrance us for a bit, but then he takesus back down to earth (or whatever) to deal with how and why it's there in the first place. His abolity to write on both scales in (to me) the mark of a good sf writer... It remains for me to categorically state that this is Roberts' best novel so far.'INFINITY PLUS 'Many will read this with great affection and praise.'SFCROWSNEST 'Polystom is a complex novel, and Roberts has created a richly fascinating world and complex characters to popuate it. He writeswith intensity about human emotions in a world strangely dissimilar from ourown.'THE ZONE 'This is a superb piece of work, full of little details which create an alien, moribund society as disorientating as the physical universe it inhabits (Roberts is a real master of this)'STARBURST
Author Bio
Adam Roberts is 36 and a Senior Reader in English at London University. His first novel, SALT, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th century poetry and SF.