- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo (1 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1934041939
- ISBN-13: 978-1934041932
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 867,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This Is Future Bristol, where A young engineer must try to avert a nightmare future • Activists and hackers take nanotech and recycling slightly too far • The city fights back against a tidal wave of crime • A new drug and riots spark an unexpected renewal • Present meets future as urban explorers encounter unforeseen hazards • Pirates and ruthless executives battle for supremacy above the sunken streets • Humanity's heirs cling onto survival in a world of toxic waste • The last living human must make an agonizing choice • A broken child may change the world. Nine short stories by leading (local) British authors including BSFA and Philip K. Dick Award-nominee Liz Williams, Interzone Poll-winner Gareth L Powell, Stephanie Burgis, Jim Mortimore, Joanne Hall, Nick Walters and Christina Lake.
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As you will, no doubt, guess from the title, Future Bristol is a themed anthology featuring short stories that all focus on the City of Bristol. Themed anthologies can be something of a doubled edged sword, on the one hand offering several takes on a particular theme, on the other hand limiting the scope for variety. The danger is that contributors will have felt hemmed in by the brief for the book and that this comes across in the writing. The challenge for the writers, and editor Colin Harvey in putting together Future Bristol, was to use the theme of Bristol in the future as a springboard for a range of entertaining and varied stories. Has Harvey achieved this?
There are nine stories in total, including good work by Liz Williams, Gareth L. Powell, Christina Lake and John Hawkes-Reed amongst others. Three stories in particular merit serious attention. Joanne Hall's `Pirates of the Cumberland Basin' vividly presents a future flooded Bristol replete with pirates, an unscrupulous Japanese business man, a revived slave trade and an under resourced police force trying to deal with it all. `Thermoclines' by Colin Harvey depicts a genuinely alien and remote future Bristol where humankind has largely disserted Earth and left behind a ragtag of radically genetically altered semi-humans. The harsh realities of living in this destroyed Earth are brilliantly conveyed. Finally, the closing story, `The Sun in the Bone House' by Jim Mortimore, alone is worth the price of entry. An incredibly ambitious piece, it tells the story of a young girl who becomes a seer of sorts and lives through millennia in the Bristol area, effecting change at pivotal moments in its history. It beautifully links past, present and future into an intrinsically interrelated loop and is at times almost poetic in its emotional impact.
Apart from the quality of the writing and the ideas presented in the standout stories, the fact that they are irrevocably connected with Bristol specifically is also why these stories work so well, given the brief for this anthology. Has Harvey succeeded? Yes, spectacularly.
There are nine stories in total, including good work by Liz Williams, Gareth L. Powell, Christina Lake and John Hawkes-Reed amongst others. Three stories in particular merit serious attention. Joanne Hall's `Pirates of the Cumberland Basin' vividly presents a future flooded Bristol replete with pirates, an unscrupulous Japanese business man, a revived slave trade and an under resourced police force trying to deal with it all. `Thermoclines' by Colin Harvey depicts a genuinely alien and remote future Bristol where humankind has largely disserted Earth and left behind a ragtag of radically genetically altered semi-humans. The harsh realities of living in this destroyed Earth are brilliantly conveyed. Finally, the closing story, `The Sun in the Bone House' by Jim Mortimore, alone is worth the price of entry. An incredibly ambitious piece, it tells the story of a young girl who becomes a seer of sorts and lives through millennia in the Bristol area, effecting change at pivotal moments in its history. It beautifully links past, present and future into an intrinsically interrelated loop and is at times almost poetic in its emotional impact.
Apart from the quality of the writing and the ideas presented in the standout stories, the fact that they are irrevocably connected with Bristol specifically is also why these stories work so well, given the brief for this anthology. Has Harvey succeeded? Yes, spectacularly.
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The Future of British SF is Bright
24 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback
Future Bristol, edited by Colin Harvey, is an anthology of short fiction by nine British writers connected to a city they love, respect, and want to see flourish. And rightly so, for Bristol, England, is a city worthy of both real and fictional exploration, and this volume is a perfect travel guide to get us started. Each story propels the reader into both the near and distant future of the United Kingdom's famous industrial city of Bristol.
While the significance and historical import of this port city in South West England is probably unfamiliar to many American readers, these speculative pieces immediately bring life and color to its past and present, while painting surprisingly vivid and imaginative scenarios of its future. In a sense, this volume represents not only a future look at what might be in store for Bristol, but a hopeful looking forward to what the city may become.
Through a wonderfully accessible selection of stories and genres -- from steampunk to biotech suspense to superhero fiction -- this anthology is entertaining, compelling, and thought-provoking. As for the writing itself, the craftsmanship of each story is superb. Editor Colin Harvey did a fine job of compiling a diverse yet complimentary collection of short fiction that celebrates, in his words, "the city that we moan about but also love. A city that, like British SF, believes in itself again." Well, if the authors of Future Bristol continue to write at this high a level, then the future of British speculative fiction -- and Bristol itself -- is secure. This volume is a delight for science fiction fans of all stripes.
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While the significance and historical import of this port city in South West England is probably unfamiliar to many American readers, these speculative pieces immediately bring life and color to its past and present, while painting surprisingly vivid and imaginative scenarios of its future. In a sense, this volume represents not only a future look at what might be in store for Bristol, but a hopeful looking forward to what the city may become.
Through a wonderfully accessible selection of stories and genres -- from steampunk to biotech suspense to superhero fiction -- this anthology is entertaining, compelling, and thought-provoking. As for the writing itself, the craftsmanship of each story is superb. Editor Colin Harvey did a fine job of compiling a diverse yet complimentary collection of short fiction that celebrates, in his words, "the city that we moan about but also love. A city that, like British SF, believes in itself again." Well, if the authors of Future Bristol continue to write at this high a level, then the future of British speculative fiction -- and Bristol itself -- is secure. This volume is a delight for science fiction fans of all stripes.
[...].
From John Kenny (Editor, Albedo One)
6 April 2009
Format:Paperback
As you will, no doubt, guess from the title, Future Bristol is a themed anthology featuring short stories that all focus on the City of Bristol. Themed anthologies can be something of a doubled edged sword, on the one hand offering several takes on a particular theme, on the other hand limiting the scope for variety. The danger is that contributors will have felt hemmed in by the brief for the book and that this comes across in the writing. The challenge for the writers, and editor Colin Harvey in putting together Future Bristol, was to use the theme of Bristol in the future as a springboard for a range of entertaining and varied stories. Has Harvey achieved this?
There are nine stories in total, including good work by Liz Williams, Gareth L. Powell, Christina Lake and John Hawkes-Reed amongst others. Three stories in particular merit serious attention. Joanne Hall's `Pirates of the Cumberland Basin' vividly presents a future flooded Bristol replete with pirates, an unscrupulous Japanese business man, a revived slave trade and an under resourced police force trying to deal with it all. `Thermoclines' by Colin Harvey depicts a genuinely alien and remote future Bristol where humankind has largely disserted Earth and left behind a ragtag of radically genetically altered semi-humans. The harsh realities of living in this destroyed Earth are brilliantly conveyed. Finally, the closing story, `The Sun in the Bone House' by Jim Mortimore, alone is worth the price of entry. An incredibly ambitious piece, it tells the story of a young girl who becomes a seer of sorts and lives through millennia in the Bristol area, effecting change at pivotal moments in its history. It beautifully links past, present and future into an intrinsically interrelated loop and is at times almost poetic in its emotional impact.
Apart from the quality of the writing and the ideas presented in the standout stories, the fact that they are irrevocably connected with Bristol specifically is also why these stories work so well, given the brief for this anthology. Has Harvey succeeded? Yes, spectacularly.
There are nine stories in total, including good work by Liz Williams, Gareth L. Powell, Christina Lake and John Hawkes-Reed amongst others. Three stories in particular merit serious attention. Joanne Hall's `Pirates of the Cumberland Basin' vividly presents a future flooded Bristol replete with pirates, an unscrupulous Japanese business man, a revived slave trade and an under resourced police force trying to deal with it all. `Thermoclines' by Colin Harvey depicts a genuinely alien and remote future Bristol where humankind has largely disserted Earth and left behind a ragtag of radically genetically altered semi-humans. The harsh realities of living in this destroyed Earth are brilliantly conveyed. Finally, the closing story, `The Sun in the Bone House' by Jim Mortimore, alone is worth the price of entry. An incredibly ambitious piece, it tells the story of a young girl who becomes a seer of sorts and lives through millennia in the Bristol area, effecting change at pivotal moments in its history. It beautifully links past, present and future into an intrinsically interrelated loop and is at times almost poetic in its emotional impact.
Apart from the quality of the writing and the ideas presented in the standout stories, the fact that they are irrevocably connected with Bristol specifically is also why these stories work so well, given the brief for this anthology. Has Harvey succeeded? Yes, spectacularly.
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