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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798228527331
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ISBN: 9798228527324
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ISBN: 9798228527348
| Category: | Fiction/Science Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Third in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss challenged fans' minds for over fifty years with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction.
Ray and Ruby Tebbutt are a Norfolk couple struggling to pay off a loan they could not afford. Peter Petrik, a small-time Czech film director, is involved with an Irish arms smuggler. Dominic Mayor, a British millionaire with a cold past, made his fortune by manipulating the stock market. All four people's lives are taken by a terrorist bombing in a small British seaside hotel. In Remembrance Day, an American academic examines the details of the victims' lives and histories to find the relationship between them and their fate.
Author
Author Bio: Brian W. Aldiss
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) wrote acclaimed science fiction novels that won two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He also wrote bestselling popular fiction, including the three-volume Horatio Stubbs saga and the four-volume the Squire Quartet, experimental fiction such as Report on Probability A and Barefoot in the Head , and many other iconic and pioneering works, including the Helliconia Trilogy. He edited many successful anthologies and published groundbreaking nonfiction, including a magisterial history of science fiction. Among his many short stories, perhaps the most famous was "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long," which was adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick and produced and directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg as A. I. Artificial Intelligence.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Science Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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