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Ian Tregillis
Sun, 04/25/2010 - 2:00pm
The Bookcase is pleased to welcome Ian Tregillis on Sunday, April 25 at 2:00 in the afternoon.
Mr. Tregillis will be here to read from, discuss, and sign copies of his debut novel, Bitter Seeds.
It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between
Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.
When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.
This book is Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different.
Ian Tregillis lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratory. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective, directed by George R. R. Martin. Bitter Seeds is his first novel.
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607 East Lake Street
Wayzata, Minnesota 55391
Bitter Seeds (Hardcover)
$25.99
ISBN-13: 9780765321503Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Tor Books, 04/01/2010
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George R. R. Martin "Mad
George R. R. Martin
"Mad English warlocks 642-456battling twisted Nazi psychics? Yes please, thank you. Tregillis's debut has a white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters-- an unstoppable Vickers of a novel."
—Cory Doctorow
"Tregillis 642-515delivers a dynamite first novel in Bitter Seeds."
—SFRevu.com
"A striking first novel."
—Locus
"...'Bitter Seeds'642-524 is hands down the best debut of 2010 so far."
—Fantasy Book Critic
"...Tregillis begins a saga in his first novel, one that may rival Naomi Novik's Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy."
—Booklist
"This fantasy debut... brings together the supernatural lore of World War II and642-812 wartime intrigue in this fantasy thriller that blends alternate history with period horror... [Bitter Seeds] should appeal to fans of World War II fiction, superheroes, and alternate history."
—Library Journal
"[Tregillis] has created a unique, unsettling, and deeply atmospheric setting; populated it with a diversity of grimly fascinating characters; and turned up the heat with the sort of plot that requires those characters to keep shoveling frantically if they are ever to stay in advance of the needs of the firebox."