Dark Eden: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013
Jan 2012 · Atlantic Books Ltd
4.2star
80 reviews
Ebook
416
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About this ebook
THE WINNER OF THE 2013 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI SCOTT)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BSFA AWARDS
You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the forest lie mountains so forbidding that no one has ever crossed them. The Oldest recount legends of a time when men and women made boats that could travel between worlds. One day, they will come back for you.
You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world.
You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first to kill another, the first to venture into the Dark and the first to discover the truth about Eden.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI SCOTT)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BSFA AWARDS
You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the forest lie mountains so forbidding that no one has ever crossed them. The Oldest recount legends of a time when men and women made boats that could travel between worlds. One day, they will come back for you.
You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world.
You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first to kill another, the first to venture into the Dark and the first to discover the truth about Eden.
Ratings and reviews
4.2
80 reviews
Joseph Rubin-Broad
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February 10, 2016
This was a rattling good read. As well as the clearly sketched characters, the nods towards stories of prehistory and early epic, what made Dark Eden especially powerful for me was the intense pace of the narrative and the different characters. While the difference in the narrator proved only useful for telling the story from different locations, this mattered not a jot. The world itself was alien/familiar. It was a strange mixture of the beautiful and weird; which made it a fascinating encounter with the genre of castaways.
faye walter
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January 7, 2014
Great book. Amazing book. It's blown my mind. Fantastic story of a dying society and the risk takers who try to change it and are hated for their courage and belief that there is more than the staid status quo. I'd follow John and I want to be Tina. As for Jeff.....
Andy Bell
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February 12, 2015
No idea about the plot, characters or style of writing as I couldn't get past the 2nd page. No quotation marks around any of the speech which totally disrupts the flow of reading. Really Google? Requested refund. Did all the other reviewers just plough through to give their ratings.....?
About the author
Chris Beckett is a university lecturer living in Cambridge. He has written over 20 short stories, many of them originally published in Interzone and Asimov' s. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Story competition, 2009, for The Turing Test, as well as the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013, for Dark Eden.
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