The Salt Oracle: We Are All Ghosts in the Forest
Autor Lorraine Wilsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 noi 2025
Notăm cu interes cum Lorraine Wilson explorează în „The Salt Oracle” miza supraviețuirii într-o lume unde progresul tehnologic s-a transformat în bântuire. În centrul narativ se află Auli, o cercetătoare a cărei loialitate față de institutul Bellwether este zdruncinată de o dilemă morală profundă: poate proteja o ființă umană folosită drept resursă fără a condamna întreaga comunitate plutitoare la naufragiu? Descoperim aici o lume post-apocaliptică fascinantă, unde oceanul nu este doar un decor, ci un spațiu al mutațiilor și al incertitudinii.
Suntem de părere că elementul cu adevărat distinctiv al acestui volum este sistemul său magico-tehnologic. Într-o eră fără internet, „Oracolul” — o fată care canalizează fantome digitale periculoase — devine singura sursă de date pentru navigație. Această simbioză între misticism și rigoare științifică oferă cărții un ton unic, de o „frumusețe nesăbuită”, așa cum notează critica de specialitate. Ritmul investigației pornite de Auli după moartea mentorului său transformă lectura într-o explorare a corupției academice și a limitelor etice ale științei.
Romanul amintește de Infinite Detail de Tim Maughan prin atmosfera apăsătoare a unei lumi deconectate brusc de la rețea, dar se diferențiază prin prezența elementului supranatural și a „fantomelor” care devin o amenințare fizică, nu doar o pierdere nostalgică. Poziționând „The Salt Oracle” în contextul operei autoarei, observăm o evoluție de la temele intime ale pierderii din The Way The Light Bends către o construcție de lume mult mai vastă și ambițioasă, începută în We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, unde ecologia și tehnologia se întrepătrund într-un mod tulburător.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1837865744
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 141 x 220 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: REBELLION
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor de science-fiction care caută o lume construită cu minuțiozitate și o dezbatere etică solidă. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care vor să exploreze modul în care umanitatea s-ar putea adapta după un colaps tehnologic total, folosind resturile digitale într-un mod aproape mistic. Câștigați o poveste despre curaj intelectual și compasiune, într-un decor maritim spectaculos și bântuit.
Despre autor
Lorraine Wilson este o autoare versatilă, stabilită în Melbourne, Australia, unde activează și ca consultant în educație. Experiența sa în dezvoltarea de strategii educaționale și atenția pentru nevoile individuale se reflectă în profunzimea psihologică a personajelor sale. Deși a debutat cu lucrări de non-ficțiune precum „Reading to Live”, Wilson s-a remarcat rapid în literatura de speculație prin capacitatea de a îmbina teme precum doliul și speranța cu elemente supranaturale. Prin seria „We Are All Ghosts in the Forest”, ea explorează vulnerabilitatea societății moderne în fața dependenței tehnologice.
Descriere scurtă
It's been seventeen years since the internet crashed and left the world broken...
On the Bellwether, a huge floating college safe from the politics and war of the mainland, Auli is part of a research team studying the Oracle - a strange, uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts. The scientists notate everything she says, using her to piece together maps, weather forecasts, and anything else that might make the region’s hazardous waters a little safer for shipping cartels and local fishermen alike.
Auli is horrified when her beloved mentor, Boudain, reveals his scheme to create more human Oracles, seeking to leverage the power of this unique girl into security for the Bellwether and perhaps even a return to a new, warped digital age. The very next day, she finds him dead.
Reluctantly promoted to lead her team, Auli begins an investigation into Boudain's death. Her scrutiny reveals the corrupt heart of the institute she has dedicated herself to, and as the ghosts and even the very seas around them start to mutate, she is forced to wrestle with a life-changing decision: save the Oracle or save the Bellwether - and all the lives that depend on it.
Notă biografică
A conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine Wilson lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She has a PhD from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of This Is Our Undoing, The Way The Light Bends, Mother Sea, We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, and the novella The Last To Drown. Winner of a BFA for her short fiction, her books have been longlisted for the BSFA, finalists for the BFA, Kavya and Saltire Awards, and twice winners of the SCKAwards. Lorraine has been stalked by wolves, caught the bubonic plague, and befriended pythons, but she now sticks to herding cats.
Recenzii
“Wilson’s The Salt Oracle is an intricate and compelling tale: a dystopian dark academia murder mystery. In a world filled with a fog of infectious ghosts, there is only the salt oracle to divine the way forward – whether she wants to or not. Heart-wrenching and hopeful The Salt Oracle interrogates our humanity, our compassion and our right to remain.” — Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
“The Salt Oracle blends sci fi, the gothic, and folklore with such skill that I lost myself in its damaged yet hopeful world until the very end. It's a book that isn’t afraid of nuance, a story that imagines a world full of ghosts and monsters and confronts how the things that terrify us are made... and asks the question, how can such monsters be unmade? The Salt Oracle is rich and slippery and claustrophobic. It is a book for people who want to see the world differently, who want to lose themselves in the meanings between the lines, and go someplace that feels as strange and dangerous as our world but threaded through with hope.” — Angie Spoto, author of The Bone Diver
“An intensely heartfelt and poetic tale, The Salt Oracle wraps a crackling mystery in layers of fog and shadow. With echoes of Omelas, Wilson channels Le Guin through the lens of her own deeply-grounded characters and intriguing worldbuilding to ask: in an age of loss, does hope lie in sacrifice or in finding another way to tell stories of the past and future?” — MK Hardy, author of The Needfire
“In The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson tips the reader effortlessly into a beautiful and complex story of ghosts and science. There is nobody else writing like this, nobody creating such rich and thoroughly innovative worlds that still feel so eerily credible. It is a thrill to read and lingers long after the final chapter, though unlike the ghosts in its pages this is a haunting I never want to be rid of.” — Sam K. Horton, author of Gorse and Ragwort
“The Salt Oracle is dark academia done right! Lorraine Wilson’s prose is beautiful, her characters complex and flawed. By turns haunting and horrifying, this tale is ultimately humane and hopeful. This is a book that deserves your attention.” — Gareth Brown, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Book of Doors
“The Salt Oracle is evocative, elegiac, and beautifully stylish. A gorgeous read.” — Aliya Whiteley, BSFA Award-Winning author of Three Eight One
“The Salt Oracle defies genre boundaries: murder mystery, post-apocalyptic, or dark academia in equal measures, but all of it a gothic tale of the cost of humanity's survival. The story unfolds in fleeting glimpses like the ghosts each character carries with them. Haunting and atmospheric, the questions it poses linger long after the final pages.” — Eliza Chan, #1 Sunday Times Bestselling Fantasy Author of Fathomfolk and Tideborn
“Gripping, thought-provoking, and gorgeously written, The Salt Oracle is a brilliant portrayal of academia at the edge of a changed and dangerous world. The Bellwether and its inhabitants, and the choices they have to make about what survival means, will stay with me for a long time. It is a novel as haunting as the flickering ghosts within its pages.” — Sarah Brooks, author of The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands
“In her newest, Wilson blends murder mystery and electric tension with a beautifully realised world and rich, evocative prose. This book is an absolute treat.” — Nick Binge, bestselling author of Ascension
“Twisty and haunting and hopeful and sad, a beautiful novel dripping ghosts and brine. In the salt and fog the borders we draw between genres are utterly superfluous. A lovely strange wee thing. The prose is delicious and evocative and the elements of dark academia and brooding otherworldly horror are masterfully balanced.”—Ian Green, Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author of Extremophile
“Exquisite.” —The FT
“Weird, rich and ultimately rewarding.” —The Guardian
Descriere
It's been seventeen years since the internet crashed and left the world broken...
On the Bellwether, a huge floating college safe from the politics and war of the mainland, Auli looks after the Salt Oracle, a strange, uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts to sift information.
When her mentor is found dead, Auli is promoted to his former position and investigates what she believes is murder - an investigation that causes her to question the people around her, the Oracle, and the changing nature of the ghosts that threaten them.