- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (14 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575060980
- ISBN-13: 978-0575060982
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,683,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The sequel to "Lucky's Harvest", this book continues the story of Lucky Sariola, a spaceship-pilot who has settled on a planet that resembles her Finnish homeland. The act of casting out her daughter for mating with a shapechanger intitiates a series of events that brings havoc to the settlers.
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Ian Watson (1943 - ) Ian Watson was born in England in 1943 and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a first class Honours degree in English Literature. He lectured in English in Tanzania (1965-1967) and Tokyo (1967-1970) before beginning to publish SF with "Roof Garden Under Saturn" for the influential New Worlds magazine in 1969. He became a full-time writer in 1976, following the success of his debut novel The Embedding. His work has been frequently shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula Awards and he has won the BSFA Award twice. From 1990 to 1991 he worked full-time with Stanley Kubrick on story development for the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed after Kubrick's death by Steven Spielberg; for which he is acknowledged in the credits for Screen Story. Ian Watson lives in Northamptonshire, England.
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'Lucky's Harvest' was an impressive but slightly distant novel, a tortuous collection of interweaving plots and a massive cast combining to produce an intruiging but rambling book. All that build-up proves to have been worth it however, as sequel 'The Fallen Moon' repays the reader's investment by being a very satistying conclusion to the story. The cat's-cradle of interweaving plots are still very much in evidence, but a central storyline concerning the quest for a newly born Ukko - an alien object that feeds off of the power of stories - helps pull the strands into a cohesive whole.
Packed with colourful characters (two of my favourites being Minkie Kennan - a gloriously lustful cad who considers himself a heroic figure when in reality he brings misery wherever he goes, and the conflicted Roger Wex - a schizophrenic human who shares his head with sentient software and falls in love with a woman he can never touch), rich thematic mirroring of intertwinging story-strands, and a wild explanation of the Ukko's SF rational at the end, 'The Fallen Moon' is a very rich and rewarding science fiction novel.
Packed with colourful characters (two of my favourites being Minkie Kennan - a gloriously lustful cad who considers himself a heroic figure when in reality he brings misery wherever he goes, and the conflicted Roger Wex - a schizophrenic human who shares his head with sentient software and falls in love with a woman he can never touch), rich thematic mirroring of intertwinging story-strands, and a wild explanation of the Ukko's SF rational at the end, 'The Fallen Moon' is a very rich and rewarding science fiction novel.
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