Brasyl (edit title)

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Brasyl Wednesday, November 25 2009.

• Edited category of an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Best science fiction or fantasy novel

Timothy Gray approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 3 books, including Brasyl, Wednesday, November 25 2009.

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Brasyl Wednesday, November 25 2009.

• Added an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association)
• Added category of an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Best science fiction novel
• Added year of an award: BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) 2008

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of Brasyl Wednesday, November 25 2009.

• Added an award: Nebula
• Added category of an award: Nebula Best science fiction or fantasy novel
• Added year of an award: Nebula 2008
• Checked finalist field of an award: Nebula

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 3 books, including Brasyl, Wednesday, November 25 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Brasyl Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. Three separate stories follow three main characters: Edson is a self-made talent impressario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked? Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul. Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point. Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Brasyl Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ian McDonald: (Primary Author)