White Queen

Name: White Queen
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.4 (9 reviews)
Author: Gwyneth Jones
ISBN: 9781473235113

Author: Gwyneth Jones

Series: S.F. MASTERWORKS #190

Narrator: Laurence Bouvard

Unabridged: 14 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 09/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has changed.

Then the aliens arrive.

With no clear understanding of the visitors' intent, factions form, including the anti-alien group White Queen, working to turn humans against these extra-terrestrial tourists. Caught in the middle is Johnny Guglio, an American exile whose only fault was living near the landing site, and Braemar Wilson, a cutthroat reporter who will do whatever she needs to get ahead of the story. And for better or for worse, it seems being caught in the middle is the best place for them to uncover the truth.

Winner of the 1991 James Tiptree Jr. Award, WHITE QUEEN is the first in Gwyneth Jones' critically acclaimed Aleutian Trilogy.

About Gwyneth Jones

Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. She is the previous winner of the James Tiptree Memorial Award and two World Fantasy Awards; four of her previous books have been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.She has also won the Pilgrim Award, for lifetime achievement in SF scholarship; the BSFA Short Fiction Award, for 'La Cenerentola'; and, as Ann Halam, the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society, for The Fear Man.

Reviews

Goodreads review by tish

As a first contact story, I liked the book. The Aleutians are fascinating, if kinda gross--there are a lot of references to waste management and underwear before you ever get an explanation--and by the end I really wanted to know more about them. The alien/human politics leading up to the climax wer......more

Goodreads review by Liviu

After the extraordinary Spirit, I went back to the original Aleutinian trilogy starting with this book and I have to say that despite that it is set in a somewhat dated future - we can interpret it as an alternate Earth without the Internet essentially and with violent revolutions, split in the lat......more

Goodreads review by Salimbol

As intelligent and uncompromising as any of Gwyneth Jones' other works, this boasts the creation of a* truly* alien society, and examines the tragic misunderstandings that ensue when humanity and aliens make first contact while labouring under some fundamentally flawed assumptions. It has her usual......more