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Loading... Air (Gollancz)by Geoff Ryman
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. One of the authors more consistent efforts, hangs together well and nice use of a different voice but thin (  ) findantonia | Dec 18, 2009 |  Winner of the 2005 Tiptree Award, this novel sweeps the reader in to the life of its protagonist, which takes us on an ever-stranger ride to a life, and resolution, we could never have imagined. A story that will bowl you over and stay with you. One of the most impressive works I've read in a long time. (  ) lquilter | Sep 28, 2009 | Winner of the 2005 Tiptree Award, this novel sweeps the reader in to the life of its protagonist, which takes us on an ever-stranger ride to a life, and resolution, we could never have imagined. A story that will bowl you over and stay with you. One of the most impressive works I've read in a long time. ( ) lquilter | Sep 27, 2009 | The protagonist of this novel, Mae, is the "fashion expert" in a small, isolated, very poor mountain village in a fictional Central Asian country. She is illiterate, as are most of the villagers. Her life is small and ordinary. And then comes Air: the internet without wires or screens, information direct to the human brain by telepathy, and it's going to change everything. For the first 200 pages, this is a story of loss and change: Mae understands more than anyone that the old ways are going to be lost, but that the villagers must learn, must adapt or die, and she sets out to change them, hopefully for the better, but for the inevitable. She, herself, is changed by it as much as anyone, and the novel starts off depicting this beautifully, in a clear measured style that matches the content nicely. But after the halfway mark, the plot twists start to get ever-more twisty, ever-stranger, and not in a way that works - there was a specific point, regarding human biology (you'll know it when you see it) where my suspension of disbelief was just shot down. Both the macroscopic and microscopic plots suffer from this after a while - both Air, and Mae's personal life, get ever more involved and thus less engaging. So, after a point, while in principle the idea is very sound indeed, and it has flahses of beauty and insight, I'm not quite sure I like this, and what exactly I can take away. ( ) Raven | Jul 27, 2009 | excellent, a really good look at the internet and the third world (  ) Kaethe | May 22, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312261217, Paperback)Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late? (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:23 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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