Colin Greenland

Colin Greenland ( born May 17, 1954 in Dover, Kent ) is a British science fiction writer. Already with his first story, he won the second prize of Faber & Faber competition. His novel Take back Plenty ( 1990) was finally awarded the main British Science Fiction Awards: British Science Fiction Association Award and Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Greenlands first published book, The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock and the UK New Wave (1983 ) was a critical consideration of the so-called New Wave of British science fiction, based on his doctoral thesis. Then he published several fantasy novels such as Daybreak on a Different Mountain before moving to SF. The most successful works he published with the Plenty- series, which he began in 1990 with Take Back Plenty and continued with Seasons of Plenty ( 1995), The Plenty Principle (1997) and Mother of Plenty ( 1998).

Greenland also wrote books that are not attributed to the SF, as the mainstream novel, Finding Helen about the work of remembrance. However, In addition to fiction, the author is also the non-fiction area a writer and active member of the Science Fiction Foundation, also part of the editorial board of the magazine Interzone.

As a critic, he wrote and wrote reviews for the New Statesman, The Face, The Guardian, The Independent and the Sunday Times. As a guest speaker, he was invited to four Microcons (1988, 1989, 1993 and 1994).

Colin Greenland lives since 1996 along with the author Susanna Clarke ( Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ). His works have been translated into twelve languages.

Bibliography

Plenty cycle ( dt, Tabitha Jute )

Other novels

Non-fiction

As editor

Criticism

• Karsten Kruschel about encounters on the Möbius band or star thief: " Colin Greenlands novel is very colorful, just as funny and tragic, full of crazy ideas and not a side boring It works like an onion. Whenever the reader believes recognize the schema or Tabea. located near the Durchblick believes, comes a turning point layer by layer comes the poor pilot the secret of her odyssey closer ... Colin Greenland maintains the imaginary figures not like other authors who exploit carefully structured types such as the mascot Talo to the last: Off initially obscure reasons keep disappearing protagonists from the book. Talo is more shot to pieces by mistake, Marco is exposed without further ado on Venus, the spacecraft - I withdrew into a sort of sulk, and so on ... at the very end only know the reader and Tabea jute that it was a quest, a search for the identity and destiny of the hero. and that is not Tabea. Such surprises are typical of the novel, keep the interest awake and prevent full of atmosphere that you take it all to seriously. Because that would be fatal in some places enormous frequency of all kinds of violence. If TAKE BACK PLENTY should have a message - which I doubt - so she is the one that nothing is as it seems, and on the other that the fun of a gutgesponnenen yarn is still one of those pleasure one finds in a good SF book the purest and best. "