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The Book of the River - Black Current Book 1

Name: The Book of the River
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Ian Watson
ISBN: 9780575114470

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Ian Watson

Gateway
Paru le : 28/09/2011

The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other,... > Lire la suite

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The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other, for the black current has the power to stop them crossing. Only women can travel repeatedly up and down the river, but when Yaleen joins the boating guild and becomes a riverwoman, she is singled out to follow an even more extraordinary path...

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Date de parution : 28/09/2011
Editeur : Gateway
Collection : Gateway Essentials
ISBN : 978-0-575-11447-0
EAN : 9780575114470
Format : ePub

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Biographie d'Ian Watson

Ian Watson (1943 - )Ian Watson was born in England in 1943 and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first class Honours degree in English Literature. He lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish SF with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for the influential New Worlds magazine in 1969. He became a full-time writer in 1976, following the success of his debut novel The Embedding.
His work has been frequently shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula Awards and he has won the BSFA Award twice. From 1990 to 1991 he worked full-time with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A. I. Artificial Intelligence, directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg; for which he is acknowledged in the credits for Screen Story. Ian Watson lives in Spain.