ConFuse 2004 har nu en hedersgäst: Justina Robson
Justina Robson har skrivit tre böcker: _Silver Screen_ (Clarke-nominerad), _Mappa Mundi_ (Clarke-nominerad) och förra året kom _Natural History_. Här är en rescenserar M John Harrison _natural History_:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,971853,00.html
Utdrag:
Justina Robson's first two novels took much of their energy from her interest in consciousness and artificial intelligence. To these elements she now adds molecular biology, visualising DNA as cut-and-pasteable. This allows her to approach themes of identity and choice - which make this novel reminiscent both of Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix and of the "Instrumentality" stories of Cordwainer Smith - and also to write science fiction as pacy and widescreen as that of Alastair Reynolds or Iain Banks. But if the new space opera navigates by science, its engine is down in the imagination. You bolt on the biggest one you can find, then point and press - a technique that suits Robson better than you might think.
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Silver Screen and Mappa Mundi showed intelligence, grace and a lively but humane imagination. Robson's considerable sense of humour lay in ambush, backed up by a postfeminist tendency to look the problem straight in the eye. Combined with a clean, powerful narrative drive and a cosmological sensibility, this clarity of vision now demonstrates itself as her major asset, making her one of the very best of the new British hard SF writers. But it proves her identity too, moving her on, like the Forged themselves, into a space of her own choosing.
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