Paul J. McAuley
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Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was: A Tor.Com Original (2016) 17 Exemplare
Recording Angel {novelette} 10 Exemplare
Crimes and Glory 8 Exemplare
Gene Wars [short fiction] 8 Exemplare
Dead Men Walking 8 Exemplare
The Two Dicks 7 Exemplare
Incomers 6 Exemplare
The Thought War 6 Exemplare
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2023] — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
The Temporary King [short fiction] 5 Exemplare
Karl and the Ogre 5 Exemplare
Sea Change with Monsters 5 Exemplare
The Passenger 4 Exemplare
17 4 Exemplare
Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden (Short story) (2012) 4 Exemplare
Little Lost Robot 4 Exemplare
The Temptation of Dr. Stein [short fiction] 4 Exemplare
All Tomorrow's Parties 3 Exemplare
Naming The Dead 3 Exemplare
Prison Dreams (novelette) 3 Exemplare
Rats of the System 3 Exemplare
Cross Roads Blues 3 Exemplare
The King Of The Hill [short fiction] 3 Exemplare
Little Ilya and Spider and Box (novelette) 3 Exemplare
Exiles [short fiction] 3 Exemplare
Shadow Life (short story) 2 Exemplare
Bone Orchards 2 Exemplare
A Brief Guide To Other Histories 2 Exemplare
The Man (Short story) 2 Exemplare
The Madness Of Crowds 2 Exemplare
Meat (short story) 2 Exemplare
The True History Of Doctor Pretorius 2 Exemplare
Inheritance 2 Exemplare
Wild Honey {short story} 2 Exemplare
Interstitial 2 Exemplare
The Airs of Earth [Short story] 2 Exemplare
Residuals 2 Exemplare
Assassination Of Faustino Malarte 2 Exemplare
Elves of Antarctica {short story} 2 Exemplare
A Very British History - Additional Stories 2 Exemplare
Războiul liniștit 2 Exemplare
Rocket Boy (novelette) 2 Exemplare
Transcendence [Short story] 2 Exemplare
The Heirs of Earth [Short story] 2 Exemplare
The Gardens of Saturn 1 Exemplar
Blade And Bone 1 Exemplar
Back Door Man 1 Exemplar
Novacon 28 Special: Alien TV 1 Exemplar
Maryon's Gift 1 Exemplar
Rats Dream Of The Future 1 Exemplar
Danger: Hard Hack Area 1 Exemplar
Penance 1 Exemplar
Planet of Fear (novelette) 1 Exemplar
The Proxy 1 Exemplar
I Spy 1 Exemplar
The Rift 1 Exemplar
Alien Tv 1 Exemplar
Before The Flood 1 Exemplar
Antarctica Starts Here 1 Exemplar
Life As We Know It 1 Exemplar
Space Fever 1 Exemplar
Barbara Allen and Sweet Billie 1 Exemplar
Crossroads [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
Transitional Forms (short story) 1 Exemplar
Take me to the river 1 Exemplar
Adventure 1 Exemplar
Dr Luther's assistant [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
Prometheus Warps the F-Ring 1 Exemplar
Karyl's War 1 Exemplar
A dragon for Seymour Chan [short fiction] 1 Exemplar
Edna Sharrow 1 Exemplar
Straight to Hell 1 Exemplar
Child of the Stones 1 Exemplar
The Secret Of My Success 1 Exemplar
Heaven Is A Place 1 Exemplar
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Mitwirkender — 510 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007) — Mitwirkender — 433 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Mitwirkender — 391 Exemplare
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Mitwirkender — 367 Exemplare
Zima Blue and Other Stories [Night Shade Books] (2006) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 336 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Mitwirkender — 333 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Mitwirkender — 283 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Mitwirkender — 249 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Mitwirkender — 241 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Mitwirkender — 239 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014) — Mitwirkender — 168 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Mitwirkender — 156 Exemplare
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 138 Exemplare
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Mitwirkender — 132 Exemplare
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Mitwirkender — 130 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017) — Mitwirkender — 124 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback (Mammoth Books) (2012) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Mitwirkender — 53 Exemplare
More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots, and Manufactured Humanity (2017) — Mitwirkender — 50 Exemplare
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
Twelve Tomorrows - Visionary stories of the near future inspired by today's technologies (2013) — Mitwirkender — 35 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 13 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1992, Vol. 82, No. 4 (1992) — Autor — 13 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1999, Vol. 96, No. 3 (1999) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Autor — 10 Exemplare
Subterranean Magazine Spring 2009 — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- McAuley, Paul J.
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- McAuley, Paul James
- Andere Namen
- McAuley, Paul
- Geburtstag
- 1955-04-23
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Engeland
- Geburtsort
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, Engeland
- Wohnorte
- Londen, Engeland
St. Andrews, Schotland - Berufe
- Botanicus
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- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1992)
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The story moves at a great pace and the London setting is convincing. The graffiti art, obviously inspired by Banksy, also convinces. Alfie Flowers and the other characters are all well-drawn, to the extent that when some of them die, there is something of a sense of shock. The plot is, in equal parts, a mix of le Carré, Indiana Jones and The Long Good Friday; written in 2005, it is set contemporaneously and so the technology hasn't dated.
My one concern is that the device of the glyphs inevitably recalls David Langford's Basilisk stories about mind-altering graphics, especially BLIT and the 2001 Hugo-winner Different Kinds of Darkness. It is highly unlikely that McAuley was unaware of these stories - the British science fiction community is a pretty small one - but Dave Langford himself is too nice a person to mention this.
And when did the CIA stop referring to itself internally as "the Company"? Some operatives, both serving and former, make an appearance, and keep talking about "the Agency". Is this officially a thing now?
That apart, this is a compulsive page-turner with an unusual premise and appealing characters.… (mehr)