THE GREAT WHEEL

MacLeod, Ian R.

ISBN 10: 0151002932 / ISBN 13: 9780151002931

Published by Harcourt Brace., NY:, 1997

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HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 12560

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE GREAT WHEEL
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace., NY:
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151002932
• ISBN 13: 9780151002931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction / Fantasy

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Synopsis

Living on the Borderer town in what had once been northern Africa, Father John, a priest who has lost his faith but continues to help and befriend the people he encounters, investigates a cluster of myeloid leukemia deaths, falls in love, and struggles to make peace with the pain of loss. A first novel.

About the Author

an R. MacLeod (born 1956) is a British science fiction and fantasy writer. He was born in Solihull near Birmingham. He studied law and worked as a civil servant before going freelance in early 1990es soon after he started publishing stories, attracting critical praise and awards nominations. He is the author of the novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms, which are set in an alternate universe nineteenth century England, where aether, a substance that can be controlled by the mind, has ossified English society into guilds and has retarded technological progress. MacLeod's debut novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997, and won the Locus Award for Best First novel. MacLeod's novella The Summer Isles (Asimov's Science Fiction Oct/Nov 1998) won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for and the World Fantasy Award. It is an alternate history where Britain, having been defeated in the World War I, develops its own form of fascism in 1930s. The narrator is a closeted homosexual Oxford historian who had known the leader in youth. It was written as a novel, which however could not sell; MacLeod published the cut version, with the full-length version only being published in a limited edition in 2005. This novel version also won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, thus becoming the only story to win the same award twice in two differing formats, novel and novella. MacLeod won the World Fantasy Award again in for his 2000 novelette The Chop Girl. His shorter fiction has been collected in Voyages by Starlight, Breathmoss and Other Exhalations and Past Magic.