Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, now turns her attention closer to the present in Slow River, the dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of /5(). Nicola Griffith: Book Format: ebook: Original Title: Slow River: Number Of Pages: pages: First Published in: July 4th Latest Edition: July 29th Language: English: Awards: Nebula Award for Best Novel (), Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction/Fantasy (), Seiun Award??? Nominee for Best Foreign Novel () Generes:Book Format: ebook. Slow River won both the Nebula Award and the Lambda Literary Award for author Nicola Griffith. The book's near-future setting and devices place it firmly on the science fiction shelves, and the characters' matter-of-fact sexuality further label it as lesbian SF/5().
Slow River comes from the intersection of two different experiences, both of which changed my perceptions of myself and my place in the world. The first experience was when I was eighteen, the second almost ten years later. I was born in Leeds which grew to its present size during the textile revolution. Nicola Griffith - Slow River (Ballantine, ) Lore has always felt trapped and used, like she was exchanging one bondage for another. In Ratnapida, she was the toy of her parents' ambitions, disputes, and worse. During the kidnapping, she was filmed naked, drugged and crying, exposed all over the news. And again with Spanner, who turns. [] Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, turns her attentions nearer to the present.
“Nicola Griffith made a brilliant debut two years ago with the planetary exploration novel Ammonite. Her second book is an equally brilliant but very different story of the near future and one woman’s search for an identity. Slow River extrapolates changes in biology, computers and drugs in the day-after-tomorrow fashion of Bruce Sterling. Nicola Griffith’s Nebula Award and Lambda Award-winning second novel Slow River is a very near-future SF lesbian story focusing on a young woman’s journey to self-discovery and establishing her own identity, told across three time-frames, spanning from her privileged childhood as the potential heiress of the van Oest family who controls waterworks that provide clean drinking water in an age where untreated water is no longer drinkable, to her abduction and her family’s unexplained. Slow River is a science fiction novel by British writer Nicola Griffith, first published in It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Lambda Literary Award in Plot introduction. Lore Van de Oest was born in one of the mightiest families on earth. However, she suddenly loses everything. References.
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