James Lovegrove - Page 1
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Imagined Slights
A child who wishes for the one thing that sets him apart from everyone else: wings.
A man who may have discovered heaven in a London park there isn’t room for.
A woman who waits patiently for a very special man. For fifty-two years.
These are their imagined slights, their glimpse, of a world not quite like ours, their dreams and their hopes. Their fears and their desires.
James Lovegrove has created an entrancing vision of a world where the mundane is touched by magic.
'Exceptional brilliance' Interzone
‘Sharply observed . . . intelligent satire’ Times Literary Supplement
‘Excellent’ SFX
‘Stories of a thoughtful twilight hue . . . a superb and subtle eye for character detail’ Infinity Plus
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How The Other Half Lives: Binary 1
'Like Lovegrove's novels the Hope and Days, How The Other Half lives (and what a cunning title that turns out to be) describes a monstrous edifice founded on injustice. There is a stealth in its calm; there is a courage and anger in there that will make you blink and marvel.' Colin Greenland
'A highly enjoyable Faustian tale. Fast paced and with a surpassing plot twist. A fabulous cautionary tale about greed and ego, proving once again that James Lovegrove has got what a takes to hit the big time' Michael Rowley, Waterstones
'A neat modern fable, elegantly told' The Times
'The story is developed with his usual wit and attention to detail and some excellent dialogue'
Chris Gilmore, Interzone
'The best and brightest from Britain’s genre writers. A lavish feast . .. a gourmet treat' The Times
'Fiction that is blessed by the devil himself' Daily Express
'Superbly written’ Starburst
'A good example of what is best about the dark fantasy of century's end' Dreamwatch
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The Foreigners
The new novel from the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominated author of Days is an entrancing vision of a dangerously wonderful future.
It was a bizarre and beautiful invasion. Suddenly, from nowhere, the Foreigners were everywhere: walking the streets of 21st century earth as if they had been there all along; their inscrutable golden masks floating above the crowds on top of their seven foot robe-clad bodies. They brought with them the technological marvel of Crystech, at once a power source and a building material of unearthly beauty. They banished all our worries and heralded a new utopia. All they asked of us was that we sing to them. It was surely too good to be true. The only thing that could possibly go wrong was that one day they might leave, as suddenly and mysteriously as they had arrived, throwing us back into the dark ages.
And now, in a room in one of the hotels on the gleaming white streets of New Venice, one of the Foreigners has been found dead, its robes and mask lying empty on the plush carpet next to the body of the Siren it had paid to sing to it.
An accident? A bizarre cross species suicide pact? Murder?
Jack Parry, late of the Metropolitan police, now of the Foreign Policy Police is under pressure to find out what happened before news gets out to the public, or before it happens again and the Foreigners go, giving us back disharmony and, perhaps, freedom.
SFX Editor’s Choice for Best Novel of 2000
‘A masterpiece’ The Third Alternative
‘Well written, inventive. A grippingly told story of an ingeniously imagined future’ David Langford
‘The foreigners is different, it’s ambitious and proves once again that the UK leads the way in speculative fiction’ Michael Rowley, Waterstones Enigma Magazine
‘Witty, thought-provoking and thoroughly readable. A very Ballard-esque, allegorical feel. The minor and major themes skillfully harmonise into a finely tuned whole’ SFX (Four Star Review)
‘The gripping futuristic thriller is SF at its best’ Lineone.net
`A clever blend of detective novel and near future SF, with the unusual and captivating presence of The Foreigners adding a fresh theme for a genre that has seen its share of outings. Lovegrove takes his usual dark style and creates novel that is as unsettling as it is compulsive . . . he uses the themes of music and otherness to produce one of the most original SF novels of the past few years’ Michael Rowley, Enigma
`The blend of an interesting and original puzzle, a likeable and interesting protagonist, and a cleverly depicted near future society results in an exciting and intelligently written novel’ SF Chronicle
`Lovegrove conveys a powerful sense of the clean, hopeful future of which New Venice is the epitome . . . the enigma of the Foreigners, who communicate only with a limit repertoire of hand signals, is carefully sustained.' Interzone
`That the author draws such knowing parallels between our world and the world he has created is one of the virtues of The Foreigners.' Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Foundation
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The Guardians: Berserker
TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES
They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope.
The Guardians, a world-wide secret cabal. Outsiders, walking in the shadows, yet dedicated to the cause of stability. Dedicated to preserving science from the world and the world from science.
In a rotting decommissioned nuclear power station on the English south coast, a sinister experiment is taking place. Meanwhile, in Japan, a hacker genius called Emperor Dragon is threatening to tear down the cyber-empire of Kawai Kim, the Guardians' intelligence co-ordinator.
The Guardians are divided, scattered across the world. Pursuing their own agendas, their own loyalties, they little suspect the danger that is building within their number.
Is this the end for the Guardians? For us all?
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The Guardians: The Krilov Continuum
TO SAVE US FROM OURSELVES
They are the enemies of promise. They are our only hope.
The Guardians: a world-wide secret cabal, ghosts in the global machine. Carefully selected men and women, all outsiders, yet an dedicated to the cause of stability. Their task: to stop science from running wild, by any means necessary. Vowed to secrecy, they operate on the fringes, walking in the shadows.
Only they know what links a devastating explosion in Siberia in 1908 to a secret research facility in the Nevada desert in the final days of the second millennium.
Only they know the truth.
Only they know that... WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ALONE.
About The Author
James Lovegrove is the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominated author of Days, The Hope and, with Peter Crowther, Escardy Gap. He has also written one children’s novel, part of the Web series, Computopia. He is 34 and lives in Sussex.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Imagined Slights
(Gollancz Pbk,
2002)
How The Other Half Lives: Binary 1
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
2000)
The Foreigners
(Gollancz,
2000)
Gollancz Millenium Pbk Aug 01
The Guardians: Berserker
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
1999)
The Guardians: The Krilov Continuum
(Gollancz Millenium Pbk,
1998)
Days
(Phoenix,
1997)
Phoenix Pbk 1997
The Hope
(
1990)
Gollancz Pbk Jun 02
Imagined Slights
by James Lovegrove
