Colin Greenland
Autore di Take Back Plenty
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Serie
Opere di Colin Greenland
Temptations of Iron 4 copie
The Well Wishers 3 copie
Masquerade and High Water 3 copie
Nothing Special 3 copie
Going To The Black Bear 2 copie
In the Garden 2 copie
Candy Comes Back 2 copie
Fiery Spirits 2 copie
Den ¤ny Alice 2 copie
The Girl Who Changed Everything 1 copia
The Foreign Post 1 copia
Timothy [short fiction] 1 copia
The Way to Norwich {short story} 1 copia
Best Friends 1 copia
Rconquistar Plenty 1 copia
Wings {short story} 1 copia
The Travelling Companion 1 copia
Kings 1 copia
A Bunch Of Wild Roses 1 copia
Station Of The Cross 1 copia
Them That's Got 1 copia
Talking Through The Wind 1 copia
The Suffer The Children Man 1 copia
Miss Otis Regrets 1 copia
The Station With No Name 1 copia
The Traveller 1 copia
A Passion For Lord Pierrot 1 copia
Grandma 1 copia
Opere correlate
2001: An Odyssey in Words: Celebrating the Centenary of Arthur C. Clarke's Birth (2018) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Greenland, Colin
- Data di nascita
- 1954-05-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Dover, Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- science fiction writer
- Relazioni
- Clarke, Susanna (partner)
Gaiman, Neil (friend) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1996)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 43
- Opere correlate
- 28
- Utenti
- 1,351
- Popolarità
- #19,036
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 53
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
In most space operas, human beings find some way to travel to the stars and either create or join a galactic civilization. In Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland turns these memes upside down. The aliens have come to us, filling the solar system with extraterrestrial visitors of several species. They have also told us to stay home in the Sol system. Thus, there is interstellar trade and culture, but human colonies are outclassed by large-scale alien habitats. Our heroine, Tabitha Jute, is the owner of a small freighter who makes a marginal living as a trader. The freighter has a damaged AI, called Alice Liddell, after the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland. To keep it sane, Tabitha tells it stories, some fictional and some from her own past. The main plot begins when Tabitha contracts with a fast-talking, seductive impresario to take him to an alien space habitat called Plenty to pick up his cabaret troupe. Adventure ensues. Tabitha has a well-developed personality with more depth to her character than we usually adventure heroines. The conversations between Tabitha and Alice are charming. The alien menagerie is complex and well-detailed. I don’t know what the competition was, but I am not surprised that Take Back Plenty won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. I plan to read the other two volumes of the trilogy. 4 stars.… (altro)