Colin Greenland
Auteur de Le pays de Cocagne
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Crédit image: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Séries
Œuvres de Colin Greenland
Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983) 41 exemplaires
Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future (1987) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
Temptations of Iron 4 exemplaires
The Well Wishers 3 exemplaires
Masquerade and High Water 3 exemplaires
Nothing Special 3 exemplaires
Going To The Black Bear 2 exemplaires
In the Garden 2 exemplaires
Candy Comes Back 2 exemplaires
Fiery Spirits 2 exemplaires
Den ¤ny Alice 2 exemplaires
The Girl Who Changed Everything 1 exemplaire
The Foreign Post 1 exemplaire
Timothy [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
The Way to Norwich {short story} 1 exemplaire
Best Friends 1 exemplaire
Rconquistar Plenty 1 exemplaire
Wings {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Travelling Companion 1 exemplaire
Kings 1 exemplaire
A Bunch Of Wild Roses 1 exemplaire
Station Of The Cross 1 exemplaire
Them That's Got 1 exemplaire
Talking Through The Wind 1 exemplaire
The Suffer The Children Man 1 exemplaire
Miss Otis Regrets 1 exemplaire
The Station With No Name 1 exemplaire
The Traveller 1 exemplaire
A Passion For Lord Pierrot 1 exemplaire
Grandma 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Greenland, Colin
- Date de naissance
- 1954-05-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Dover, Kent, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- England, UK
- Professions
- science fiction writer
- Relations
- Clarke, Susanna (partner)
Gaiman, Neil (friend) - Prix et distinctions
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1996)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 43
- Aussi par
- 28
- Membres
- 1,351
- Popularité
- #19,036
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 17
- ISBN
- 53
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 1
In most space operas, human beings find some way to travel to the stars and either create or join a galactic civilization. In Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland turns these memes upside down. The aliens have come to us, filling the solar system with extraterrestrial visitors of several species. They have also told us to stay home in the Sol system. Thus, there is interstellar trade and culture, but human colonies are outclassed by large-scale alien habitats. Our heroine, Tabitha Jute, is the owner of a small freighter who makes a marginal living as a trader. The freighter has a damaged AI, called Alice Liddell, after the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland. To keep it sane, Tabitha tells it stories, some fictional and some from her own past. The main plot begins when Tabitha contracts with a fast-talking, seductive impresario to take him to an alien space habitat called Plenty to pick up his cabaret troupe. Adventure ensues. Tabitha has a well-developed personality with more depth to her character than we usually adventure heroines. The conversations between Tabitha and Alice are charming. The alien menagerie is complex and well-detailed. I don’t know what the competition was, but I am not surprised that Take Back Plenty won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. I plan to read the other two volumes of the trilogy. 4 stars.… (plus d'informations)