Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

Central Station by Lavie Tidhar

An NPR Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Featured Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Book A Guardian Best SF ; Fantasy Book of 2016 Longlist, British Science Fiction Award 2016, Best Novel 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee. A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris's ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation - a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness - are just the beginning of irrevocable change. At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve.

In addition to many other works and prizes, Lavie Tidhar is the author of Osama (2011), The Violent Century (2013), the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and the Campbell Award-winning Central Station (2016). He writes in a variety of genres, fusing mystery and thriller elements with poetry, science fiction, and historical and autobiographical content. This is his first foray into the world of children's literature. He resides in the United Kingdom.

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ISBN 13	9781616962142
ISBN 10	1616962143
Title	Central Station
Author	Lavie Tidhar
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tachyon Publications
Year published	2016-05-10
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of Neukom Literary Arts Award 2018 (United States), Winner of John W. Campbell Award 2017 (United States), Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017 (UK), Short-listed for Kurd Laßwitz Preis Shortlist 2019 (Germany), Long-listed for British Science Fiction Award 2016 (UK), Nominated for 2019 Premio Italia, Best International Novel 2019 (Italy), Nominated for Geffen Award, Best Translated Science Fiction Book 2017 (Israel)
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