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Tricia Sullivan

pbk 18 Jan 07

About the Author

Paperback - Orbit (2007)

Sound Mind
When Cassidy walker stumbles into the middle of the highway, bloodied and bruised, bard college in flames behind her, and manages to flag down a ride, she thinks the worst is over.
Arriving in the nearby town of red hook, Cassidy tries to call her parents but the phone lines are down. Later she will discover that no radio or television signals are being received. The town, it seems, is cut off from the rest of the world - no one can get in and no one can get out. But that’s not the strangest thing. Not by a long shot. Nobody in red hook has even heard of Bard College. Furthermore, they claim that Cassidy is not a music student, but a hand at the local stable. And she has lived in a house she can’t remember, with people she barely knows, for over a year.
The world is fracturing. Cassidy just knows it - just as she knows that she is responsible. As she undertakes the ultimate road trip, through bubbles of reality, Cassidy will find that everything she thinks she knows about herself is wrong. Is she losing her mind or is the world a far more complex place than she thought?
Cassidy walker is about to find the answers to all of her questions. And that’s when things really get crazy...
Praise for Maul and Double Vision
‘Intricate and beautifully written’ Guardian
'A terrific page-turner' Starburst
'Fiercely intelligent' SFX

First British Edition Orbit (2003)

Paperback - Orbit (2004)

Maul

The gun straps to the inside of my leg with Velcro. It’s not the absolute zenith of fashion to do this anymore, but girls who wear theirs with leather straps and buckles aren’t serious: with Velcro you can get at the thing when you need it. I have a pink ammo belt. It’s heavy, but who said fashion was easy?

In a mall like any other, two gangs of teenaged girls are about to embark on an orgy of shopping and designer violence. In the battleground of cool, they’ll fight for their lives to prove that Image Is Everything.
And in another place, in the far future, within a sealed room, a lone man fights an Equally desperate war against a new virus and the scientists who have developed it.
The outcome of these twin battles will determine the future of the human race.
Explosive action, cutting-edge science and sparkling prose combine in the new novel from Tricia Sullivan, one of the most exciting writers to have emerged in recent years.
Praise for Maul
‘Tricia Sullivan returns to science fiction not a second too soon ...All the elements of this novel work very hard all the time, carrying not only a complex plot and fascinating ideas about microbiology, but a heavy satirical charge aimed at contemporary culture and also at SF itself. That it manages so well and is so entertaining is testament to Sullivan’s skill and intelligence. I haven’t enjoyed a book so much in a long time’ Justina Robson, The Guardian
‘MAUL is spontaneous, exhilarating, thought-provoking and just possibly quite, quite brilliant’ Vector
‘MAUL confirms an increasingly badly kept secret - Sullivan is one of the best and most ambitious SF writers around’ Dream Watch
‘Fiercely intelligent ... It’s impossible not to be carried away by the invention and conceptual gameplay’ SFX
‘MAUI is a needle-sharp, attention-grabbing work’ SFRevu
‘The mayhem is vastly entertaining’ Locus
‘One of the best near-future SF novels of the year. Tricia Sullivan is back and this time I think she’s here to stay’ Enigma
Praise for Tricia Sullivan
`Intelligent, sensitive and engrossing ... You’ll be thinking about it long after you’ve finished reading’ SFX
‘Sullivan is on her way to becoming one of the field’s major talents’ Locus
'Tricia Sullivan's writing is so good it simply invites hyperbole' SFX
'Tricia Sullivan's new novel pulls no punches and takes no prisoners - taut, powerful, unforgettable' Pat Cadigan
'A challenging, disturbing often compulsive read. Sullivan's sharp inventiveness points to a bright future' Time Out
'Painfully gripping throughout - read it if you dare' The Times

Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

First British Edition Orion (1998)

Dreaming in Smoke
Winner of the Arthur C.Clarke Award
Kalypso Deed is a shotgun. She rides the interface between the Al Ganesh and human scientists who use cyber-assisted Dreams to reach the height of their creative powers. She's overly playful and has an authority problem. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless statistician, middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with micro-organisms. Yet he Dreams.
The story would end here if they lived on earth. But this is T'Nane, a planet so environmentally hostile that the humans depend utterly on Ganesh for survival. Due to Kalypso's negligence, Marcsson's Dream has just crashed Ganesh, spilling the colonists into T'Nane's treacherous Wild. To save her home Kalypso must bring Marcsson back; but Marcsson is intent on using Kalypso's flesh to create a new world.
Tricia Sullivan is a young American sf writer now living in London. Her first two novels Lethe and Someone To Watch Over Me were published to great acclaim internationally.

About The Author
Tricia Sullivan was born in New jersey in 1968 and studied in the pioneering `Music Program Zero’ program at Bard College. She later received a Master’s in Education from Columbia University and taught in Manhattan and New jersey before moving to the UK in 1995. Her novel Dreaming in Smoke won the Arthur C Clarke award in 1998.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Sound Mind (Orbit, 2006) Orbit Pbk Jan 07

Maul (Orbit, 2003) Orbit Pbk Jun 04

Dreaming in Smoke (Orion, 1998) Gollancz Millenium Pbk Aug 99

Lethe

Someone To Watch Over Me