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Dave Hutchinson is one of today’s finest science fiction writers. His latest novel, Europe in Autumn (2014), which has garnered praise from critics and readers alike, has been shortlisted for both the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. Sleeps With Angels is his first collection in more than a decade, featuring the author’s choice of his best short fiction during that time, including “The Incredible Exploding Man”, selected by Gardner Dozois for his Year’s Best Science Fiction in 2012, and a brand new story “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”, original to this collection. “Hutchinson knows how to write dialogue, how to plot, how to pace, and best of all he writes characters – both main characters, and walk-on figures – that just lift off the page, alive, distinct, believable.” – Adam Roberts. Contents: 1.Introduction 2.The Fortunate Isles 3.Sugar Engines 4.Dalí’s Clocks 5.Sic Transit Gloria Mundi 6.All The News, All The Time, From Everywhere 7.The Incredible Exploding Man 8.About the Author
Author
UK writer who published four volumes of stories by the age of twenty-one – Thumbprints, which is mostly fantasy, Fools' Gold, Torn Air and The Paradise Equation, all as David Hutchinson – and then moved into journalism. The deftness and quiet humaneness of his work was better than precocious, though the deracinatedness of the worlds depicted in the later stories may have derived in part from the author's apparent isolation from normal publishing channels. After a decade of nonfiction, Hutchinson returned to the field as Dave Hutchinson, assembling later work in As the Crow Flies; tales like "The Pavement Artist" use sf devices to represent, far more fully than in his early work, a sense of the world as inherently and tragically not a platform for Transcendence. His first novel, The Villages, is Fantasy; The Push, an sf tale set in the Human Space sector of the home galaxy, describes the inception of Faster Than Light travel and some consequent complications when expanding humanity settles on a planet full of Alien life. Europe in Autumn (2014), an sf thriller involving espionage, takes place in a highly fragmented and still fragmenting Near-Future Europe, one of whose sovereign mini-nations is a transcontinental railway line; over the course of the central plot – which seems to reflect some aspects of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 – the protagonist becomes involved in the Paranoia-inducing Les Coureurs des Bois, a mysterious postal service which also delivers humans across innumerable borders.
- See more at: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hutc... Works * The Villages (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Cosmos Books, 2001) * Europe in Autumn (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2014) Collections and Stories * Thumbprints (London: Abelard, 1978) * Fools' Gold (London: Abelard, 1978) * Torn Air (London: Abelard, 1980) * The Paradise Equation (London: Abelard, 1981) * As the Crow Flies (Wigan, Lancashire: BeWrite Books, 2004) * The Push (Alconbury Weston, Cambridgeshire: NewCon Press, 2009)
