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Tricia Sullivan

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Tricia Sullivan (1968-) Tricia Sullivan is an American author who grew up in New Jersey. She holds multiple degrees - from a BA in music to a Masters in Astrophysics - and is currently a postgraduate student at the Astrophysics Research Institute in Liverpool. Her novel Dreaming in Smoke won the toon meer Arthur C. Clarke Award and her work has also been shortlisted for the Tiptree, the John W. Campbell, the BSFA $$$ Awards. She lives $$$ hills with her family and cat. toon minder
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Werken van Tricia Sullivan

Maul (2003) 238 exemplaren
Dreaming in Smoke (1998) 193 exemplaren
Lethe (1995) 184 exemplaren
The Company of Glass (1999) 160 exemplaren
Occupy Me (2016) 136 exemplaren
Double Vision (2005) 134 exemplaren
Someone to Watch Over Me (1997) 107 exemplaren
Lightborn (2010) 89 exemplaren
The Riddled Night (2000) 86 exemplaren
The Way of the Rose (2001) 57 exemplaren
Sound Mind (2006) 56 exemplaren
Sweet Dreams (2019) 51 exemplaren
Shadowboxer (2014) 45 exemplaren
Fumos de sonho - 1 3 exemplaren

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Wow. There's thinking outside the box and there's 'What's a box and why would I need one?' Tricia Sullivan's imagination is delightfully unbridled. If you can jump in and not worry about falling and just trust that everything will work out, you're in for a great time with 'Occupy Me'

You know those science fiction books that are about inter-planetary wars with human colonies spread out through space, travelling through the endless void in thin vulnerable metal boxes that they still insist on using to try to kill one another? Well, this isn't one of those books. 'Occupy Me' makes those books seem like they're a lazy translation of late seventeenth century pirates dressed in space suits and armed with mythical 'energy weapons', taking no account of how big the universe is or how it really works.

'Occupy Me' takes a different, more numbers-based view of life, the universe and the nature of causality. No, it's not one of those 'Look! Physics can be fun' nerdy books or one of those 'Let's science the shit out of this' uber-competent male scientist books. 'Occupy Me' does something unique, in my experience. It gets across the vastness of space and time, our limited, overly-linear view of causality and our inability truly to think in geological timeframes while building a compelling action-packed thriller filled with relatable people.

What made the book work for me was that although the core of the plot involved concepts that stretched my imagination - chains of events that are aeons long, a view of reality as essentially malleable if you can only read the code it's written in, and the difficulty of sustaining a sense of purpose and identity in the face of entropy - it was made accessible and engaging by the nature of Pearl, the main protagonist in the story.

Pearl doesn't know who she is, what she is or why she's here. She does know that she has an instinct-deep need to fix broken things, including people, and that part of her, an important part, is not just missing but has been stolen from her. Pearl is a delight. Her curiosity-driven journey from ignorance to mind-blowing comprehension as she tries to get her component back and go home powers the book. Pearl works her way from squatting in a junkyard where she throws cars around to keep in shape, to working as an agent of the Resistance (although she's not clear what they are resisting) to falling in love with her Resistance handler, destroying a passenger jet in mid-flight while working as a flight attendant, to becoming a wanted terrorist engaged in a covert struggle with a ruthless billionaire and the equally ruthless oil company that he used to work for and which is now trying to track him down. Did I mention that she also has wings (although they're not always physically present), an affinity with Doberman guard dogs that makes them behave like puppies and the ability to alter people's thoughts and moods?

Yeah, well, this isn't an easy book to summarise. And I haven't even talked about the guy who stole the component that Pearl is searching for or why he stole it or how there seems to be more than one of him using the same body or that the component is in a briefcase that isn't a briefcase but some kind of portal which, amongst other things, occasionally releases a not very happy dinosaur upon his enemies.

I had a wonderful time with this book. I liked Pearl. The ideas, especially the scale of the ideas, were intoxicating. The story was exciting.

But - like anything really original - to get the most out of it, you have to put your assumptions and preconceptions to one side and give yourself up to the experience.

I think that's easier to do if you listen to the audiobook version of 'Occupy Me'. It has two narrators, one for Pearl and one for the man who stole from her. Penelope Rawlins gives an outstanding performance as Pearl who, for reasons I never really understood, has a strong Long Island accent. Dugald Bruce-Lockhart counterbalances Pearl's extravagance with a more sober performance for his character
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MikeFinnFiction | 6 andere besprekingen | Jul 5, 2022 |
I found the ending of this rather unsatisfying, but I seem to have enjoyed the journey more than most of the other reviewers to date. While a significant chunk of the story takes place in virtual reality, it felt more akin to Hal Clement than William Gibson to me. In fact, as I read the middle half of this book, I couldn't help imagining that the trangendered ghost of Hal Clement had been sentenced to eternity in the appropriate circle of Dante's Inferno, with their only hope of redemption being to produce a story that manages to be the perfect simulteneous pastiche of both Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and J.G. Ballard's The Day of Creation, and that this resulting book came close, but wasn't quite perfect enough to bring redemption.… (meer)
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clong | 4 andere besprekingen | Dec 18, 2021 |
Chaos theory and causality; time travel and Hilbert space. And a pterosaur. You really have to pay attention to this one!
 
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SChant | 6 andere besprekingen | Nov 4, 2021 |
Too dark and messy for me right now.
 
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1,559
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