Garth Nix
Autore di Sabriel
Sull'Autore
Garth Nix was born in Melbourne, Australia on July 19, 1963. He graduated from the University of Canberra in 1986 and worked various jobs within the publishing industry until 1994. After a stint in public relations, he returned to books and took up writing as a career. He is the author of Blood mostra altro Ties, Clariel, Newt's Emerald, the Old Kingdom series, The Seventh Tower series, and The Keys to the Kingdom series. In 1999, he received a Golden Duck Award for Australian Contribution to Children's Science Fiction. To Hold the Bridge was named Best Collection by the 2015 Aurealis Awards. His novella, By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers, was named Best Science Fiction Novella by the 2015 Aurealis Awards. In 2018, he won the 2017 Aurealis Award for the Best science-fiction short story. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Garth Nix
The Sisters of Saint Nicola of the Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch (2022) 16 copie, 2 recensioni
2009 6 copie
Old Friends 6 copie
Holly and Iron [short fiction] 5 copie
Very clever baby's first reader : a simple reader for your child featuring Freddy the Fish and easy words (1997) 5 copie
Hope Chest 3 copie
Heart's Desire 3 copie
Under the Lake 3 copie
Read it in the Headlines! 3 copie
An Essay on Free Magic 3 copie
Endings 3 copie
Dog Soldier 2 copie
A Guide to the Necromancer Bells 2 copie
From the Lighthouse 2 copie
Punctuality 2 copie
The Highest Justice 2 copie
Peace in Our Time (short story) 2 copie
The Heart of the City 2 copie
Andělský mág 2 copie
aq sétima torre: a queda 1 copia
Seventh Tower: Aenir 1 copia
LORDE DOMINGO 1 copia
The heys to the Kingdom 1 copia
Seventh Tower: Above the Veil 1 copia
A Sidekick of Mars 1 copia
Showdown On Planetoid Pencrux 1 copia
Charlie Rabbit 1 copia
Lightning Bringer 1 copia
Hansel's Eyes 1 copia
The Hill 1 copia
The Keys to the Kingdom (1-5) 1 copia
Vampire Weather 1 copia
TroubleTwisters / The Monster / The Mystery of the Golden Card / Missing, Presumed Evil (2011) 1 copia
An Unwelcome Guest [Short Story] 1 copia
Stop! 1 copia
A Cargo of Ivories 1 copia
Conversations with an Armory 1 copia
O HORRIVEL TERCA-FEIRA 1 copia
Opere correlate
Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction (2003) — Collaboratore — 820 copie, 28 recensioni
Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007) — Collaboratore — 794 copie, 25 recensioni
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (2011) — Collaboratore — 700 copie, 26 recensioni
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1886) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 618 copie, 3 recensioni
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Collaboratore — 435 copie, 16 recensioni
The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2009) — Collaboratore — 403 copie, 13 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Collaboratore — 394 copie, 2 recensioni
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (2008) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 325 copie, 8 recensioni
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (2006) — Collaboratore — 238 copie, 9 recensioni
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Collaboratore — 208 copie, 6 recensioni
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Collaboratore — 168 copie, 5 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Three (2009) — Collaboratore — 143 copie, 2 recensioni
Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014) — Collaboratore — 118 copie, 6 recensioni
Three Sides of a Heart: Stories About Love Triangles (2017) — Collaboratore — 105 copie, 6 recensioni
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction (2008) — Collaboratore — 95 copie, 6 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy… (2005) — Collaboratore — 81 copie, 2 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Nine (2015) — Collaboratore — 62 copie, 3 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen (2019) — Collaboratore — 54 copie, 3 recensioni
Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (2020) — Collaboratore — 43 copie, 2 recensioni
The Road to Camelot: Tales of the Young Merlin, Arthur, Lancelot and More (2002) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 7 & 8 [July/August 2023] — Collaboratore — 6 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963-07-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Istruzione
- University of Canberra (BA - Professional Writing)
- Attività lavorative
- Writer
Army Reservist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Golden Duck Award (Australian Contribution to Children's Science Fiction, 1999)
- Agente
- Jill Grinberg
- Breve biografia
- Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing 'Hail the Conquering Hero Comes' or possibly 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a trunk full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter.
Despite a wheel literally falling off the Austin, Garth survived to return to Australia and study at the University of Canberra. After finishing his degree in 1986 he worked in a bookshop, then as a book publicist, a publisher's sales representative, and editor. Along the way he was also a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve, serving in an Assault Pioneer platoon for four years. Garth left publishing to work as a public relations and marketing consultant from 1994-1997, till he became a full-time writer in 1998. He did that for a year before becoming a part-time literary agent in 1999. In January 2002 Garth went back to writing full time again, despite his belief that full-time writing explains the strange behaviour of many authors.
Garth currently lives in a beach suburb of Sydney, with his wife Anna, a publisher.
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Discussioni
Found: Young Adult Fantasy trilogy from 2000's in Name that Book (Luglio 2021)
Fantasy/Fiction in Name that Book (Aprile 2016)
Troubletwisters by Garth Nix (reviewed by readafew) in Reviews reviewed (Mag 2011)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 127
- Opere correlate
- 85
- Utenti
- 64,506
- Popolarità
- #219
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 1,446
- ISBN
- 1,151
- Lingue
- 20
- Preferito da
- 278
Most of this book is set in the Old Kingdom, with medieval-type magic, but parts take place over the Wall in Ancelstierre, which seems to have WWII era technology (going by the types of cars, black & white films, tanks, guns and planes for example).
Sabriel, daughter of Abhorsen, is in the sixth form at Wyverly College, one of the few schools in Ancelstierre which also teaches Charter Magic. She is called back to the Old Kingdom when she suddenly receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of his trade. As she hikes back to Abhorsen's House, which she barely remembers, using the magic that her father has taught her, she realises that she is woefully unknowledgeable about the Old Kingdom and underprepared to find out what has happened to him. She also realises, after being attacked by one of the Dead, that something is using dark magic to break the Charter Stones thereby allowing the Dead to cross into Life and at the same time has trapped Abhorsen in Death to prevent him doing anything to stop them. Sabriel realises that, unprepared as she is, she has to rescue her father.
I really enjoyed this story with its unusual twist. As Sabriel travels further into the Old Kingdom she meets more magic as well as other characters who help her in her quest. At times this was gently paced as Sabriel rediscovered her former home but at others, as the action got more desperate, I found myself racing ahead with my reading to see if it all turned out well. Nicely written. I liked the contrast between the magic of the Old Kingdom and the World War II-era technology of Ancelstierre on the other side of the Wall, and the way technology failed as magic took over in the no man's land near the Wall.
I did feel that the interaction between Sabriel and her father was more told than shown and similarly the young-adult-level romance, while believable, lacked chemistry but those were small niggles as that wasn't the focus of the book.
I would gauge this as young adult or even children's in spite of the fact that Sabriel and her father are necromancers and there is a lot of death and dead beings coming back through the Nine Gates of Death into Life to inhabit bodies in various stages of decay. So, yes, zombies but I wouldn't call it horror.
4-4.5 stars… (altro)