The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
A story of hope. A story of survival. A story of love. A story about finding the best of all possible worlds. Soulful and thought-provoking, The Best of All Possible Worlds 'confirms Lord as the natural heiress to Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin' - Financial Times.
Karen Lord's second novel carries deliberate echoes of Ray Bradbury's classic Mars colonisation storiesIt's refined, meditative and life-affirming, and its exploration of gender politics and ethnology confirms Lord as the natural heiress to Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin * Financial Times *
An engrossing picaresque quest, a love story, and a moving character study of two very different people coming to understand themselves . . . Lord is on a par with Ursula K Le Guin * Guardian *
An episodic quest with a Caribbean-flavoured mix of societies * Sunday Telegraph *
A rewarding, touching and often funny exploration of the forms and functions of human culture. Plus, it has flying monks - a universally improving ingredient! * SFX *
The author is clearly a class apart, and doubly so in terms of her prose . . . Utterly astonishing * Tor.com *
A real delight to read * Fantasy Book Critic *
A sweet and gentle and sorrowful novel, written with warmth and wit and wonder . . . sumptuous * Speculative Scotsman *
The kind of novel that truly illustrates what science fiction is capable of doing. Lush and yet not overwhelming, it is a love story firmly rooted in a story of humanity told with alien cultures * Best Fantasy Stories *
The imagination behind her galaxy and its variation of the human race cannot be faulted * Sci-Fi Now magazine *
An intelligent, slow-burning, love story with rewards along the way * Starburst *
An engrossing picaresque quest, a love story, and a moving character study of two very different people coming to understand themselves . . . Lord is on a par with Ursula K Le Guin * Guardian *
An episodic quest with a Caribbean-flavoured mix of societies * Sunday Telegraph *
A rewarding, touching and often funny exploration of the forms and functions of human culture. Plus, it has flying monks - a universally improving ingredient! * SFX *
The author is clearly a class apart, and doubly so in terms of her prose . . . Utterly astonishing * Tor.com *
A real delight to read * Fantasy Book Critic *
A sweet and gentle and sorrowful novel, written with warmth and wit and wonder . . . sumptuous * Speculative Scotsman *
The kind of novel that truly illustrates what science fiction is capable of doing. Lush and yet not overwhelming, it is a love story firmly rooted in a story of humanity told with alien cultures * Best Fantasy Stories *
The imagination behind her galaxy and its variation of the human race cannot be faulted * Sci-Fi Now magazine *
An intelligent, slow-burning, love story with rewards along the way * Starburst *
Karen Lord has been a physics teacher, a diplomat, a part-time soldier and an academic at various times and in various countries. She is now a writer and research consultant in Barbados. Her debut novel, Redemption in Indigo, won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award, the 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award for Best Debut Novel and the Mythopoeic Award, and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. Redemption in Indigo and The Best of All Possible Worlds, the prequel to The Galaxy Game, are published by Jo Fletcher Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780871660 |
| ISBN 10 | 178087166X |
| Title | The Best of All Possible Worlds |
| Author | Karen Lord |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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