Colin Greenland
Autor/a de Take Back Plenty
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sèrie
Obres de Colin Greenland
Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (1983) 41 exemplars
Temptations of Iron 4 exemplars
The Well Wishers 3 exemplars
Masquerade and High Water 3 exemplars
Nothing Special 3 exemplars
Going To The Black Bear 2 exemplars
In the Garden 2 exemplars
Candy Comes Back 2 exemplars
Fiery Spirits 2 exemplars
Den ¤ny Alice 2 exemplars
The Girl Who Changed Everything 1 exemplars
The Foreign Post 1 exemplars
Timothy [short fiction] 1 exemplars
The Way to Norwich {short story} 1 exemplars
Best Friends 1 exemplars
Rconquistar Plenty 1 exemplars
Wings {short story} 1 exemplars
The Travelling Companion 1 exemplars
Kings 1 exemplars
A Bunch Of Wild Roses 1 exemplars
Station Of The Cross 1 exemplars
Them That's Got 1 exemplars
Talking Through The Wind 1 exemplars
The Suffer The Children Man 1 exemplars
Miss Otis Regrets 1 exemplars
The Station With No Name 1 exemplars
The Traveller 1 exemplars
A Passion For Lord Pierrot 1 exemplars
Grandma 1 exemplars
Obres associades
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Greenland, Colin
- Data de naixement
- 1954-05-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Dover, Kent, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- England, UK
- Professions
- science fiction writer
- Relacions
- Clarke, Susanna (partner)
Gaiman, Neil (friend) - Premis i honors
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1996)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 43
- També de
- 28
- Membres
- 1,351
- Popularitat
- #19,036
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 17
- ISBN
- 53
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)