Although Milena has created the fairies for her own ends, some of the Folk, as fey and dangerous as any in legend, have other ideas about her destiny. Milena isn't sure if she's mad or if she's the only sane person left in the world she only knows that she wants to escape to her own private Fairyland and live forever. My Thoughts: There’s plenty to unpack in the novel Fairyland, from the bleak, complex future setting, the mix of cyberpunk and fantasy tone, and even the structure of the narrative. Read more helps Milena quicken intelligence in a Doll, turning it into the first of the fairies. This is the first book I’ve read by Paul McAuley, and one that I started in 2013 and finished in 2014, making it ineligible for my 2014 Challenges.

At the cost of three hours of his life, he finds an unlikely ally in a scary, super-smart little girl called Milena, but his troubles really start when he. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically en. In London, Alex Sharkey is trying to make his mark as a designer of psychoactive viruses, whilst staying one step ahead of the police and the Triad gangs. With FAIRYLAND his most compelling, vividly imagined work to date he firmly establishes himself as one of today's major talents in the world of speculative fiction. McAULEY has taken science fiction in dazzling new directions.

Alex Sharkey is a drug engineer whose latest concoction is about to be made illegal. The author of Eternal Light, Red Dust, and Pasquale's Angel, PAUL J. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic upheaval. rating: 3.5: worth reading review: 10 December 2006.

When gene hacker Alex Sharkey helps a super-smart girl turn a genetically-engineered doll into a new species he accidentally gives history a dangerous shove.

Fairyland paul mcauley