Chris Beckett (2) (1955–)
Auteur de Dark Eden
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Chris Beckett, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Chris Beckett is lecturer in Social Work at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge
Séries
Œuvres de Chris Beckett
Atomic Truth 6 exemplaires
La Macchina [short fiction] 6 exemplaires
Day 29 [short fiction] 4 exemplaires
Two Thieves (novelette) 4 exemplaires
The Welfare Man 4 exemplaires
The Famous Cave Paintings on Isolus 9 (short story) 4 exemplaires
Greenland 4 exemplaires
Marcher [short story] 4 exemplaires
Johnny's New Job 3 exemplaires
Poppyfields 3 exemplaires
Rat Island 3 exemplaires
The peacock cloak [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
The caramel forest [short fiction] 3 exemplaires
Our Land (short story) 2 exemplaires
The dessicated man [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
The circle of stones [short fiction] 2 exemplaires
Tammy Pendant 2 exemplaires
To Become a Warrior {short story} 2 exemplaires
The Perimeter 2 exemplaires
Valour 1 exemplaire
Study Guide for Child Protection: An Introduction: An Introduction by Beckett, Chris, ISBN 9781412920919 (2011) 1 exemplaire
Sons of Eden 1 exemplaire
The goblin hunter [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
When Will We Get There? 1 exemplaire
We could be sisters [short story] 1 exemplaire
The long journey of Frozen Heart [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
The Welfare Man Retires 1 exemplaire
The Turing Test [short story] 1 exemplaire
The warrior Half and Half 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006) — Contributeur — 528 exemplaires
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributeur — 524 exemplaires
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributeur — 492 exemplaires
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (2011) — Contributeur — 298 exemplaires
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Jali: The Short Story Collection: 6 Original Sci Fi Short Stories (2018) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Newcon Press Sampler — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1955
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Études
- University of Bristol (BSc) (psychology) (1977)
University of Wales (CQSW) (1981)
Goldsmith's College, University of London (Diploma in Advanced Social Work) (1977)
Anglia Ruskin University (MA) (English Studies) (2005) - Professions
- social worker
Senior Lecturer in Social Work - Organisations
- Anglia Ruskin University
University of East Anglia - Courte biographie
- Chris Beckett was born in Oxford, England in 1955, and now lives in Cambridge, England. He has published three novels: Dark Eden, The Holy Machine and Marcher. He has been publishing short stories in the UK and the US, since 1990, and his short story collection, The Turing Test, won the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award in 2009, the UK's only national prize for single-author short-story collections.
His new short story collection, The Peacock Cloak, will be appearing at Easter 2013.
Chris Beckett works part-time as a lecturer in social work and he also writes text books on social work, in which he tries to use his experience of story telling to make the writing readable and lively. [adapted 7/23/2013 from Amazon.com]
Membres
Critiques
Mother of Eden par Chris Beckett
I thought I really liked Dark Eden. And then I listened to Mother of Eden and liked it even more! John Redlantern was a fascinating character, but not terribly endearing. Starlight and Greenstone were both just so charming, in spite of their flaws. This world, the characters, and the story are all so fascinating and the narration is excellent. I am so sad I have to wait 2 monhts for Daughter of Eden! I can't wait!
The reviews for this here seem to be quite mixed, with some people loving it and some thinking it was overrated. I fall firmly into the former camp. This was a truly excellent sci fi novel, well conceived and constructed, beautifully imagined and full of great characters. Really first class
Hauntingly creepy and insightful. Flawed people floundering in a psychologically hostile territory. Everything is wrong, and nothing is solved. Form follows function.
It's hard to believe that this book is by the same author as Dark Eden or Beneath The World, A Sea. This is a political thriller potboiler with a little doom pasted on. The writing is really pedestrian compared to the prose in Dark Eden or Beneath The World, A Sea. If this was the first book I encountered by Chris Beckett, I would never read another of his books. I don't know if he's aiming for a different market, or this is supposed to be young adult, or what, but it's just not good writing, compared to those other books I mentioned. Both of them were haunting and will stay with me for years. This one is already mostly forgotten.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 54
- Aussi par
- 25
- Membres
- 1,823
- Popularité
- #14,112
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 146
- ISBN
- 112
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
