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Blackfish City de Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City: Ecco Press

Autor Sam J. Miller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2024

Dincolo de structurile metalice masive ale orașului Qaanaaq, miza emoțională a romanului Blackfish City este ancorată în sentimentul de pierdere și în căutarea identității într-o lume care și-a uitat umanitatea. Remarcăm modul în care Sam J. Miller construiește o narațiune despre reconcilierea cu trecutul, purtându-ne prin labirintul unui oraș plutitor unde corupția și speranța coexistă sub gheața arctică. Subliniem unicitatea sistemului de legătură între om și animal — o formă de tehnologie biologică pierdută, care permite personajelor să experimenteze conștiința unor creaturi precum orca sau ursul polar, transformând supraviețuirea într-o comuniune spirituală profundă. Reținem că acest univers nu este doar un decor distopic, ci un organism viu, o minune de inginerie socială care începe să se destrame sub presiunea propriilor secrete. Forța narativă a lui Kim Stanley Robinson din New York 2140, combinată cu sensibilitatea explorărilor sociale din The City in the Middle of the Night de Charlie Jane Anders — dar cu un glas propriu, mai tăios și mai poetic — transformă această lucrare într-o experiență senzorială rară. În contextul operei sale, dacă în Boys, Beasts & Men autorul explora intimitatea și monștrii interiori prin proza scurtă, aici el extinde aceste teme ale rebeliunii și conexiunii umane la o scară epică, păstrând totodată focusul pe marginalized și pe cei care aleg să lupte împotriva sistemelor opresive, temă centrală și în Recognize Fascism.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062684875
ISBN-10: 0062684876
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 134 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Colecția Ecco Press
Seria Ecco Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Blackfish City cititorilor care caută un science-fiction vizionar, unde construcția lumii este la fel de complexă ca psihologia personajelor. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra viitorului ecologic și a modului în care tehnologia ne poate redefini legătura cu natura. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii distopiilor climatice care pun accent pe diversitate, compasiune și reziliență în fața colapsului social.

Despre autor

Sam J. Miller este un scriitor și organizator comunitar american, a cărui experiență în activism se reflectă profund în temele sociale ale operelor sale. Absolvent al prestigiosului atelier Clarion, Miller a devenit o voce de referință în literatura speculativă contemporană, fiind distins cu premiile Shirley Jackson și Andre Norton. Lucrările sale, publicate în reviste de renume precum The Rumpus sau Fiction International, explorează adesea intersecția dintre fantastic, identitate queer și lupte politice. Locuiește în New York, oraș care îi servește frecvent drept sursă de inspirație pentru viziunile sale urbane complexe.

Descriere scurtă

“One of the most intriguing future cities in years.” —Charlie Jane Anders
“Simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder.” —Ann Leckie
A Best Book of the Month in
Entertainment Weekly
The Washington Post
Tor.com
B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog
Amazon
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population.
When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves. 
Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection. 
 

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When a strange new visitor arrives in a floating city in the Arctic—humanity’s last hope after the ravages of climate change—the city is entranced. She’s riding an orca and has a polar bear at her beck and call. She’s called “the orcamancer,” and she very subtly unites four desperate people to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together, they will learn shocking truths about themselves—and save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay.

Recenzii

“Immersive sci-fi with a poetic edge. . . . The book thrills with its meticulous world-building while also providing great characters, inclusive representation, and hard-hitting themes.” — Entertainment Weekly, Best of 2018 So Far
“An urgent tale imploring us to look at the ties between technology, race, gender and class privilege. . . . Surprisingly heartwarming. . . . An action-packed science fiction thriller.” — Washington Post
“Miller’s poetic prose gives this dystopian story a taut, lyrical edge.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Impressive. . . . Fabulous. . . . We tend to label almost any future city as dystopian, but the term hardly does justice to Miller’s complex society.” — Chicago Tribune
“Delightful. . . . [A] gripping novel full of vivid descriptions, compelling characters, timely urgency, and thrilling action.  An immediate page-turner.” — The Advocate
“Vividly brought to life. . . . Miller excels at depicting a metropolis bursting at the seams and populated by both refugees and the elite. Blackfish City is a compelling dystopian thriller.” — The Guardian
“Blackfish City feels like a place I’ve never seen in a story before, but I came away feeling as though I’d lived there forever. One of the most intriguing future cities in years.” — Charlie Jane Anders
“This is the kind of swirling, original sci-fi we live for.” — B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog
“Bleak, gut-wrenching, yet beautifully written, Blackfish City ponders what makes a society thrive or die.” — Amazon Book Review
“A timeless story of rebellion against a corrupt master, giving it a kind of Hunger Games resonance that reaches beyond any genre boundaries. Miller is a graceful writer.” — Booklist
“An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble. . . . Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. . . . Rendered in poetic interludes.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A floating Arctic city; nano-bonded orcas and polar bears; an Earth violently reshaped by the mistakes we’re making right now… I haven’t been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. A gorgeous, queer, muscular novel.” — Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award-nominated author of Her Body and Other Parties
“A wildly inventive post-cyberpunk ride that also has real things to say about community and family. Sam Miller’s drowned future is vivid and fully real, even as he throws in the weird and the fantastic. Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast.”  — Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Spoonbenders
“Blackfish City is an exhilarating tour of a post-catastrophe future that’s both fantastical and eerily convincing. Imagine The Yiddish Policeman’s Union cross-bred with Snowcrash and you’ll get an inkling of the imaginative horsepower on display here.” — Adam Sternbergh, author of The Blinds
“Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future.  Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder.” — Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling and Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice

Notă biografică

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a best book of the year for Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, and more). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop, Sam's short stories have been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. A community organizer by day, he lives in New York City.

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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL***
***A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2018***
***A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018***
***A WASHINGTON POST BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF 2018***

'A remarkable work of dystopian imagination' - Starburst

'Incisive and beautifully written . . . Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder' - Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula and Clarke Award-winning author

*****

After the climate wars, a floating city was constructed in the Arctic Circle. Once a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering it is now rife with corruption and the population simmers with unrest.

Into this turmoil comes a strange new visitor - a woman accompanied by an orca and a chained polar bear. She disappears into the crowds looking for someone she lost thirty years ago, followed by whispers of a vanished people who could bond with animals. Her arrival draws together four people and sparks a chain of events that will change Blackfish City forever.

DISTURBING, POWERFUL AND FEARLESSLY IMAGINED, BLACKFISH CITY IS A MESMERISING NOVEL FROM A REMARKABLE NEW VOICE IN SCIENCE FICTION

*****

'A compelling dystopian thriller' Guardian

'Sam Miller is a fiercely strong writer, and this book is a blast' - Daryl Gregory, World Fantasy
Award-winning author

'I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials' - Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award-nominated author of Her Body and other Parties

'Damn near perfect' - The Book Smugglers

'An ambitious, imaginative and big-hearted dystopian ensemble story that's by turns elegiac and angry' - Publisher's Weekly

'This is the kind of swirling, original sci-fi we live for' - B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog