Ares Express
Author(s): Ian McDonald (University of Brighton, UK Newcastle University, UK)
Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
A Mars of the imagination, like no other, in a colorful, witty SF novel; Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, Ares Express is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Prometheus Books
- : Prometheus Books
- : 0.408
- : 15 June 2011
- : 227mm X 153mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 389
- : Paperback / softback
- : Ian McDonald (University of Brighton, UK Newcastle University, UK)