- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: BenBella Books; First Edition edition (Mar 11 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1932100245
- ISBN-13: 978-1932100242
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,378,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...If you doubt that a male novelist can create a convincing feminist utopia, if you think that all utopias are necessarily dull... read this tale of Yaleen the river-woman and be pleasantly surprised..." Chr(45) New York Times Book Review. "One of the most satisfyingly accessible of all Mr Watson's novels..." Chr(45) The Times. "A joy to read, full of incident, humanity, and humour..." Chr(45) Vector Magazine.
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“One of the most satisfyingly accessible of all Mr. Watson’s novels.”
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FROM time immemorial no boat had crossed the river on account of the black current. Read the first page
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Garrison Keiller is an Ian Watson fan and so am I!,
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This review is from: Yaleen: The Book of the River, The Book of the Stars, The Book of Being (Paperback)
Here's what Keiller had to say about Watson on April 20, 2004: "It's the birthday of science fiction writer Ian Watson, born in St. Albans, England (1943). He grew up in England in the 1950s, at a time when realistic fiction about working-class British was becoming all the rage. Watson read novels by writers like Kingsley Amis, Alan Sillitoe, and Colin Wilson, but he grew tired of reading about depressed people living in His novel God's World (1979) is about a group of astronauts who set out to find heaven in a distant solar system. In The Jonah Kit (1975), the universe is discovered to be just a few microseconds old, and a whale is given the soul of a human. Watson's most popular books are those that comprise the Black River/Yaleen trilogy: The Book of the River (1984), The You can find this at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/04_04_19.htm and scroll down to April 20th, and get the audio. I'll add my two cents: Yaleen is a brilliant work that shouldn't be possible because it succeeds on so many levels at once - it's deeply thoughtful while being filled with action, it's profoundly feminist while deeply honest and fair, it's a true classic while being enormously fun to read.
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Garrison Keiller is an Ian Watson fan and so am I!,
By Glenn Yeffeth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Yaleen: The Book of the River, The Book of the Stars, The Book of Being (Paperback)
Here's what Keiller had to say about Watson on April 20, 2004: "It's the birthday of science fiction writer Ian Watson, born in St. Albans, England (1943). He grew up in England in the 1950s, at a time when realistic fiction about working-class British was becoming all the rage. Watson read novels by writers like Kingsley Amis, Alan Sillitoe, and Colin Wilson, but he grew tired of reading about depressed people living in His novel God's World (1979) is about a group of astronauts who set out to find heaven in a distant solar system. In The Jonah Kit (1975), the universe is discovered to be just a few microseconds old, and a whale is given the soul of a human. Watson's most popular books are those that comprise the Black River/Yaleen trilogy: The Book of the River (1984), The You can find this at http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/04_04_19.htm and scroll down to April 20th, and get the audio. I'll add my two cents: Yaleen is a brilliant work that shouldn't be possible because it succeeds on so many levels at once - it's deeply thoughtful while being filled with action, it's profoundly feminist while deeply honest and fair, it's a true classic while being enormously fun to read. 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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first half pretty good, but then...,
By Jim Molnar - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Yaleen: The Book of the River, The Book of the Stars, The Book of Being (Paperback)
This book really started out pretty good, nicely paced to our dawning understanding of an extraterrestrial colony and how their society developed, but then devolves into a shuddering mass of pseudo-cosmic poop at the end (actually, like the whole final third). It's very unsatisfying when an author schemes up a story that culminates in situations-that-cannot-be-described, and we the readers are left holding the bag of whatever-it-is. Fortunately Watson's "Mockymen" is much more even.
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