Secret Harmonies [Import] [Hardcover]

Paul McAuley (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz; First Edition edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575045809
• ISBN-13: 978-0575045804
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,573,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul McAuley's first novel won the Philip K. Dick Award, and he has gone on to win almost all of the major awards in the field. For many years a research biologist, he now writes full-time. McAuley's novel The Quiet War made several "best of the year" lists, including SF Site's Reader's Choice Top 10 SF and Fantasy Books of 2009. He lives in London. Visit him online at unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com .

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3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, April 2, 2006

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Semioticghost "Semioticghost" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Harmonies (Paperback)

On Elysium, a colony of settlers is slowly expanding through the annual arrival of a colony boat from Earth. Conflict between the city of Port of Plenty and the outlying settlements begins to build when things do not proceed as planned on one Landing Day; a split-perspective narrative supplies observations from both within and outside the main civilisation as the established way of life begins to fall apart. Elysium's aboriginees form the mysterious counterpoint to the human and AI politics responsible for the civil war.
"Secret Harmonies" won the Phillip K. Dick Award, but, while it's perfectly enjoyable, I don't feel it stands out sufficiently to justify such honours.