Geoff Ryman
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Fonte dell'immagine: Geoff in his beautiful silk shirt. Photo by Johan Anglemark.
Opere di Geoff Ryman
Everywhere 7 copie
Have Not Have [short story] 6 copie
Birth Days (short story) 4 copie
You [short story] 3 copie
Those Shadows Laugh 3 copie
The Coming of Enkidu 2 copie
O Happy Day! 2 copie
Omnisexual [short story] 1 copia
Care {short story} 1 copia
The many different kinds of love — Autore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004) — Collaboratore — 538 copie, 6 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Collaboratore — 527 copie, 5 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) — Collaboratore — 517 copie, 2 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003) — Collaboratore — 496 copie, 1 recensione
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Collaboratore — 422 copie, 4 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009) — Collaboratore — 394 copie, 2 recensioni
Millemondi Inverno 2009: Il meglio della SF /II - L'Olimpo dei classici moderni (2005) — Collaboratore — 375 copie, 19 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995) — Autore — 361 copie, 1 recensione
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) — Collaboratore — 284 copie, 6 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012) — Collaboratore — 241 copie, 5 recensioni
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2006) — Collaboratore — 239 copie, 4 recensioni
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (2007) — Collaboratore — 212 copie, 3 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One (2007) — Collaboratore — 201 copie, 6 recensioni
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) — Collaboratore — 175 copie, 5 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014) — Collaboratore — 172 copie, 2 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016) — Collaboratore — 159 copie, 2 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Collaboratore — 140 copie, 4 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four (2010) — Collaboratore — 128 copie, 2 recensioni
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (2017) — Collaboratore — 127 copie, 3 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight (2014) — Collaboratore — 104 copie, 5 recensioni
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 61 • June 2015 (Queers Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2015) — Collaboratore — 104 copie, 2 recensioni
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (2007) — Collaboratore — 95 copie, 2 recensioni
Northern Suns : The New Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction (1999) — Collaboratore — 63 copie, 1 recensione
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 Edition (2016) — Collaboratore — 59 copie, 4 recensioni
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten (2016) — Collaboratore — 50 copie, 3 recensioni
Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) — Collaboratore — 35 copie, 1 recensione
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2013, Vol. 125, Nos. 3 & 4 (2013) — Collaboratore — 18 copie, 4 recensioni
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2016, Vol. 131, Nos. 3 & 4 (2016) — Collaboratore — 14 copie, 1 recensione
Vital Signals: Virtual Futures, Near-Future Fictions (2022) — Collaboratore — 14 copie, 8 recensioni
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2011, Vol. 121, Nos. 3 & 4 (2011) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Evolution @ Intersection — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ryman, Geoffrey Charles
- Data di nascita
- 1951-05-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- USA
England, UK
Canada (birth) - Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (English | History)
- Attività lavorative
- Lecturer (Creative Writing, University of Manchester)
novelist
science fiction writer - Relazioni
- Hawkins, John David (partner)
- Organizzazioni
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
African Speculative Fiction Society - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1992)
Utenti
Discussioni
THE DEEP ONES: "The Film-Makers of Mars" by Geoff Ryman in The Weird Tradition (Luglio 2015)
Recensioni
Liste
SF Masterworks (1)
All Things Oz (1)
Parallel Novels (1)
Future Visions (1)
Women's Stories (1)
Sense of place (1)
Strange Towns (1)
Five star books (4)
Magic Realism (3)
Favourite Books (2)
Null (1)
Asia (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 47
- Opere correlate
- 65
- Utenti
- 4,392
- Popolarità
- #5,711
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 137
- ISBN
- 86
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 28
Since then, I’ve read just about everything Ryman has written, and have always been deeply affected.
Ryman’s latest novel, Him, surpasses anything he has written thus far. In my opinion, the skill and scope of the novel firmly places him in the same league as Rushdie and Atwood. And like those luminaries’ works, Him is destined to not only become a classic in literature which transcends genre, but join that cannon of books which are banned and burned.
Him is a reimagining of the mythology of Jesus, and what Ryman creates is believable, sensitive, devastating. As always, his writing is precise, his characters clearly defined, his pacing and plot fraught with tension.
Ryman’s exploration reveals a pregnant woman married off to a man who is essentially the village idiot. She cannot account for her pregnancy, thus the virgin birth. He has been exiled for preaching questionable views of the Torah. The marriage is difficult in that neither wishes any sexual congress, and yet they do somehow manage children. The eldest child, born female and named Avigayil, becomes a transgender individual, and after serving an apprenticeship as a stonemason, goes on walk-about preaching a new interpretation of the Hebrew texts. As expected, their following grows. The essential points of the Jesus story are followed.
But what Ryman does with the characters and events is startling, provoking, and utterly memorable. Maryam’s shock, fear, and disgust of her daughter’s actions is made abundantly clear, to the point she refers to her daughter, now identifying as male and Yeshu, as It, or the Cub.
Yosef barLevi, the hapless husband and father, stumbles his way through existence, incapable of providing for his family, of demonstrating any act of connection.
And Avigayil-become-Yeshu, rockets through phases of recklessness, demand, and grief, until embracing their course of action as a teacher, a prophet, and in the end a god.
Ryman examines profound discovery and self-realization, ripping away any sentimentality and doctrine, and in the end exposes the core of what it means to be human, and to love.
I will not reveal the last passage of Him. Suffice it to say I read it at 3:00 a.m., weeping because of the beauty of what Ryman had written, and the emotional impact of what he had to say.
If Him doesn’t make the shortlist for the Booker, the Giller, and the GG, there is something truly wrong with our understanding of stunning literature. And you should go out right now, obtain a copy, read it, weep, and then give Him a permanent place in your library.… (altro)