Air, Or, Have Not Have
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Baker & Taylor
The link between the inhabitants of the isolated farming village of Kisuldah, Karzistan, and the culture of the world beyond, Chung Mae finds her life turned upside down when a test of Air, a new wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, … More »
The link between the inhabitants of the isolated farming village of Kisuldah, Karzistan, and the culture of the world beyond, Chung Mae finds her life turned upside down when a test of Air, a new wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, … More »
Baker & Taylor
The link between the inhabitants of the isolated farming village of Kisuldah, Karzistan, and the culture of the world beyond, Chung Mae finds her life turned upside down when a test of Air, a new wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, backfires, killing many with the shock. Original. 25,000 first printing.
McMillan Palgrave
Holtzbrinck
Blackwell North Amer
Chung Mae is the only connection her neigbors have to the culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
Baker
& Taylor
When Air, the latest communication technology, finally comes to the remote village of Kizuldah, Karzistan, with disastrous results, Chung Mae struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past.
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The link between the inhabitants of the isolated farming village of Kisuldah, Karzistan, and the culture of the world beyond, Chung Mae finds her life turned upside down when a test of Air, a new wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, backfires, killing many with the shock. Original. 25,000 first printing.
McMillan Palgrave
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
What happens when the whole world goes online . . . through the air? A brilliant literary SF novel by the author of 253.
Holtzbrinck
What happens when the whole world goes online . . . through the air? A brilliant literary SF novel by the author of 253.
Blackwell North Amer
Chung Mae is the only connection her neigbors have to the culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
Baker
& Taylor
When Air, the latest communication technology, finally comes to the remote village of Kizuldah, Karzistan, with disastrous results, Chung Mae struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past.
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Authors:
Ryman, Geoff
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Geoff Ryman
Title:
Air, or, Have not have
Publisher:
New York :, St. Martin's Griffin,, 2004
Edition:
1st ed
Characteristics:
390 p. ;,map ;,21 cm.
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Add a CommentNot as trippy as some of Ryman's other writing: more of a metaphor for how people deal with change.
Wow. If someone had described this book to me I would never have guessed I would have liked it so much. It was one of those books that flows, and you don't notice the passage of time while you read it. Such an engaging story. I highly recommend.