Grazing The Long Acre by Gwyneth Jones
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Overview: In this collection of dense and challenging short stories, many tied to her novels but all easily read alone, BSFA Award winner Jones (Life, Bold as Love) demonstrates that traditions and beliefs dictate the course of the future more than advances in technology or science. Whether cloning the perfect offspring ("La Cenerentola"), subtly undermining a princely succession ("The Eastern Succession") or assassinating a reactionary alien to allow a progressive to ascend ("Saving Tiamaat"), her characters find their fond hopes (or their fears, as in "Grazing the Long Acre" and "The Voyage Out") diminished by the persistence of the past.
The settings range from a lyrical, Zelazny-influenced far-future South East Asia, to black comedy sci-fi in the New Space Opera style. There are ghosts and miracles, magical science and scientific magic; characters from novels, investigations of sexual difference, speculations on a future in which physics and neuroscience move into convergence, interrogations of our fascination with the other.
Gwyneth Jones’ capacity to move and astonish the reader is undimmed, when distilled into the shorter form.
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