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Emily St. John Mandel

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Emily St. John Mandel was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is a staff writer for The Millions. She has written several novels including Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, The Lola Quartet, and Station Eleven. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including The Best American näytä lisää Mystery Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. In 2015, her novel, Station Eleven, was on the New York Times bestseller list and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2015. In the same year she won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science-fiction writing for her novel Statio Eleven. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Kevin Mandel

Tekijän teokset

Asema 11 (2014) 11,568 kappaletta
Sea of Tranquility (2022) 3,132 kappaletta
The Glass Hotel (2020) 2,980 kappaletta
Last Night in Montreal (2009) 841 kappaletta
The Lola Quartet (2012) 560 kappaletta
The Singer's Gun (2010) 474 kappaletta
Mr. Thursday 7 kappaletta
Drifter (2014) 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 (2013) — Avustaja — 97 kappaletta
The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books (2011) — Avustaja — 64 kappaletta
Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) — Avustaja — 58 kappaletta
Venice Noir (2012) — Avustaja — 57 kappaletta
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology (2021) — Avustaja — 40 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1979
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Canada (dual citizenship)
USA (dual citizenship)
Syntymäpaikka
British Columbia, Canada
Asuinpaikat
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Koulutus
School of Toronto Dance Theatre
Ammatit
author
Agentti
Katherine Fausset (Curtis Brown) [books]
Britton Rizzio (Writ Large) [screewriting]
Noah Rosen (Writ Large) [screewriting]
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Born on the coast of British Columbia, Canada in 1979. She studied dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York. She lives in Brooklyn.

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August 2023: Emily St. John Mandel, Monthly Author Reads (elokuu 2023)
Found: SciFi/Fan pandemic , Name that Book (syyskuu 2021)

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This is a VERY short, unusual piece of work. It is set in four different time frames, early 20th century British Columbia, roughly present-day New York City, 23rd century moon colony and 25th century Time Institute.

The different threads are pulled together through the presence of a time traveler from the 25th century named Gaspary. Gaspary is recruited to work at the Time Institute to investigate what is essentially a “glitch in the Matrix”. As you might imagine, time travel is very strictly regulated in order to prevent corruption of the time line, which any reader of time travel genre can appreciate. Unfortunately, or not, Gaspary is not as meticulous in this regard as his overseers would like.

As stated, this is a very short work, easily consumable in a single sitting (3-4 hours), which is probably wise, given the complexity of the subject matter. The payoff is pretty decent and makes the effort worthwhile,
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santhony | 159 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 22, 2024 |
I am forever changed
 
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rocketshackgirl | 159 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 13, 2024 |
Loved, loved, loved this book!!! Such a fantastic world that this author has created and such a gorgeous story. A favorite.
 
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Teokset
8
Also by
6
Jäseniä
19,563
Suosituimmuussija
#1,116
Arvio (tähdet)
4.0
Kirja-arvosteluja
1,277
ISBN:t
206
Kielet
17
Kuinka monen suosikki
28

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