Hopeland

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It’s true, and more than true. It is the defining truth in his twenty-four years. It is why the doors in Meard Mews hadn’t answered to Crumble. It is why the rioters on Oxford Circus sniffed, growled and moved on; to bring him here, to this rooftop. And she won’t turn him away. The Grace will always favour the Graced. Raisa, for various reasons, flees to Iceland and ends up developing a conglomerate that takes advantage of the abundant geothermal power there. Climate change is forcing people to look to the north, and the people who already live there (both in Iceland and Greenland) are now in a powerful geopolitical position. Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 March 2009.

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A long stream of swift syllables in a language he does not recognise ends in a dead intercom. To the final door. a b "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1994 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End . Retrieved 29 March 2009. He walks away from the scene of the phone-switch. On Finn’s stolen phone he can easily locate the Prize. This battered street door leads to a courtyard. There is a fire escape. Of course. Before he climbs the ladder in his inappropriate footwear to a flat roof he makes sure to switch off the purloined phone. Seal the crime. Across a few metres of abandoned barbe- cues and bottle-smash rises a stained-glass cupola, patterned with branches and leaves like a Tiffany lamp. At the four corners of the roof stand slender metal pillars, twice his height, each capped with a metal sphere the size of his head. Are those arcane markings etched into the roof lead beneath his feet, or the hieroglyphs of pigeon shit? When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne—tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace—in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the world.

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While it has a little romance and a little tragedy, I don't really see this as a genuine star-crossed lovers kind of romance. Not at all. Their lives are beautiful, whether they are together or apart. This is more of a FAMILY saga, one that keeps developing, adapting, growing stronger even while the world changes so much. And this is what I’m not sure about, because this blending of fantasy-romance with speculative science fiction is kinda like the thing those literary novelists end up doing when they try to write genre. And that's where the real core of this novel comes to play: The world itself, from the early early days of the Hopeland people to where we really follow our MCs in the early 2010's, and how they grow older, change to the ecological disasters and upheavals deep into the 2030's and beyond. Maybe just... fiction? But there were definitely some bits that were too weird to entirely count as mainstream, not-speculative, fiction. Also, it's Ian McDonald.

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a b c Alexander, Niall (21 September 2015). "The Long Run: Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald". Tor.com . Retrieved 12 December 2015.The parts that made me cry concerned the people of Ava' u surviving a catastrophic storm, only to discover that their aquifer has been breached by the sea so their home is no longer habitable. The entire nation become climate refugees and take an extraordinary journey north to settle in Greenland. Amon's connection to Raisa catalyses this and the epic voyage is seen through his eyes. This sequence of survival, solidarity, and adaptation is astonishingly moving, as it never veers into sentimental cliche or trivialises the plight of refugees. It also features a very striking scene when the ships from Ava' u encounter the ruins of an offshore libertarian community that has descended into chaos and death. This failed attempt to build a nation purely on contractual relationships makes a very effective contrast to the webs of connections both protagonists build.