Awards
John W Campbell Memorial Award
Arthur C. Clarke Award
British Fantasy Society (nominee)
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John W Campbell Memorial Award
Arthur C. Clarke Award
British Fantasy Society (nominee)
In 21st century Europe, ravaged by the changes of war and technology, gene hacker Alex Sharkey is a bare step ahead of the police and the Triads. When he helps a super-smart girl turn a genetically-engineered doll into a new species, he doesn't realize he's giving history a dangerous shove.Having already made the final shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award with his SF novels Eternal Light and Pasquale's Angel, Paul McAuley finally won this coveted prize with Fairyland. The title's hint of fey fantasy is blackly ironic: this is a streetwise cyberpunk future, replete with gene-hacking, instant designer drugs, and mind-warping viruses that function as "love bugs" or "loyalty plagues". One spinoff of genetic tailoring is a slave race of blue-fleshed "dolls", modified baboons made bright enough to do society's dirty jobs--until they're liberated by the unholy alliance of an idealistic child prodigy and a biologically savvy nerd, boosting them to thinking, evolving, breeding "fairies". And indeed the night becomes full of unwholesome magic and fanged terrors again, as this new race steps into the old mythological niche of the dark elves, attacking venomously from the trees and setting up their private fairyland in the decayed remains of a certain Magic Kingdom outside Paris... Though occasionally obscure and not quite plausible in all its plot details, Fairyland is a creepily effective nightmare of a world becoming increasingly chaotic under the stress of runaway biotechnologies, excessively deadly toys in the hands of people with no more common sense than children. Vivid and viscerally compelling. --David Langford
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
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Used availability for Paul J McAuley's Fairyland
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Hardback Editions
1995 : Hardback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul J. McAuley ISBN: 0380973448 / 9780380973446 (USA edition) Publisher: Avon Books (T) Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
August 1995 : Hardback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575060700 / 9780575060708 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA |
Paperback Editions
September 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575086580 / 9780575086586 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon UK Amazon |
August 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland (GOLLANCZ S.F.) Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575081104 / 9780575081109 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon UK Amazon Amazon CA |
November 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul J. McAuley ISBN: 1857989082 / 9781857989083 (UK edition) Publisher: Millennium Availability: Amazon CA Amazon UK |
September 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575600314 / 9780575600317 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon CA Amazon Amazon UK |
April 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575061545 / 9780575061545 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon Amazon UK |
August 1997 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul J. Mcauley ISBN: 0380794292 / 9780380794294 (USA edition) Publisher: Eos Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
1995 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul J. McAuley ISBN: 0380786753 / 9780380786756 (USA edition) Publisher: Avon Books (P) Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
August 1995 : Paperback
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: 0575060719 / 9780575060715 (UK edition) Publisher: Gollancz Availability: Amazon Amazon CA Amazon UK |
Kindle Editions
December 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Fairyland Author(s):: Paul McAuley ISBN: B004GHN2QW Publisher: Gateway Availability: Amazon UK |
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