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Cover art: Philip Pascuzzo
2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
Blurb: “A deeply moving and sometimes terrifying novel about holding on to the past while embracing the future
Air is coming...
hung Mae is the only connection her neighbors have to the culture of a wider world
nology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere, without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped, Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for its arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
"Reading the first sentence of Geoff Ryman's brilliant new novel is like passing through a Tipping Point. The instant he touches you with his story, you're caught, and the world changes as suddenly as Paul Revere changed America: because it brings the news. Air is a message from the future beyond broadband. More than a message, it's a tip. Listen to Geoff Ryman and you're already on the inside track" —JOHN CLUTE, author of The Book of Endtimes
"Say that we are all already living in Air, and need with all our heart to know better what it means and how it works. That would be one way of describing the continuous pleasure of reading this great novel - the thrill of recognition. It is like a magic mirror —we are in Chung Mae and she is in us, and her world is utterly alive. What more can fiction do?" —KIM STANLEY ROBINSON, author of the Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt
"Brilliant, inventive, surprising, humane. Ryman is one of the most important and exciting writers in science fiction today." - MICHAEL SWANWICK, author of Bones of the Earth
"Geoff Ryman's new novel is swift, smart, and convincing. Air is a wonderful and frightening examination of old and new, and survival on the interface between." -GREG BEAR, author of Darwin's Children
GEOFF RYMAN is the author of Lust, 253, Was, The Child Garden, and The Uncon-quered Country. He has won the World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John
W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. He lives in London, England.”