Group reading of Elizabeth Bear's NEW AMSTERDAM
May 29th 2009 1:01amDead Air sez, "At the Science Fiction Message Board we're preparing for another of our semi-regular "Group Book Reads", which is due to start in just a few days now. For a little bit of fun, we're deviating from the harder SF this time for a bit of alternate history. We've decided to choose the 2008 Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear - and the book of hers we'll be perusing together is New Amsterdam, a series of linked stories: six novelettes and novellas about Detective Crown InvestigatorSebastien de Ulloa is the oldest creature he has ever knownHe was no longer young at the Christian millenniumand that was nine hundred years agoHe has forgotten his birth-namehis birth-placeand even the year in which he was bornif he ever knew itBut he still remembers the woman who made him immortalHe has everythingbut a reason to live. In a world where the sun never set on the British Empirewhere Holland finally ceded New Amsterdam to the English only during the Napoleonic warsand where the expansion of the American colonies was halted by the war magic of the Iroquoisthey are exiles in the new world--and its only hope for justice. Summer 2009 Group Book ReadNew Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear (ThanksDead Air!) posted in Book , Happy Mutants , History Favorite This (4) boing_boing:http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/28/group-reading-of-eli.html var diggurl escape(location.href); document.write(''); Send this to a Friend Older Famous Swedish poet explains why he's voting for the Pirate Party Newer Michael Moorcock answers your questions! var federated_media_section ''; Discussion (function({ var library_path "http://www.boingboing.net/mt-static/plugins/Moderate/"; if((typeof Prototype ='undefined'|(typeof Element ='undefined'|(typeof Element.Methods ='undefined'){ /ok we need to include protoype.js document.write(''); }) (); successMsg ""; Report this comment #1 posted by Tom HaleMay 2820099:58 PM WowThis sounds like my kind of book.
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