logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Brasyl - Ian McDonald
Brasyl
by: (author)
3.56 45
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 colour, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely... show more
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 colour, 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 Sao 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.
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781591025436 (1591025435)
ASIN: 1591025435
Publisher: Pyr
Pages no: 355
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies"
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies" rated it
2.0 Brasyl by Ian McDonald
My younger son gave me this book to read. It irritated me with lazy grammatical faults and sloppy writing - repeated words in sentences and short-hand sentence construction that often had me reading a sentence several times to make sense of it. Written in alternating sections dates 2006, 2032 and 17...
davidofterra
davidofterra rated it
I would have given this 4 stars except for the abrupt ending.
The Deckled Edge
The Deckled Edge rated it
4.0
This was my first book by Ian McDonald. I had heard a lot of good things and I picked it up the year it came out. For the most part, the author is worthy of the praise. The setting of Brasil is fairly unique in the English-speaking world and the book follows not one but three stories in three sep...
Other editions (11)
Books by Ian McDonald
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?