Name: Waste Tide
Price: 20.00 EUR
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Author: Chen Qiufan
ISBN: 9780765389336

Type

Physical Book

Author

Chen Qiufan

Translated by

Ken Liu

Publisher

Tor Books

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9780765389336

Synopsis "Waste Tide "

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs -- are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end. Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island's economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity's past and its future. Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." - David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas

Chen Qiufan

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Chen Qiufan (alias Stanley Chan) is an award-winning science fiction writer. He grew up near Guiyu, China, home to the world's largest electronic waste recycling center, an area the UN described as an "environmental calamity". His experiences there inspired Waste Tide. He currently lives in Shanghai and Beijing and works as the founder of Thema Mundi Studio.

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Ken Liu

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Ken Liu is a science fiction and fantasy author born in Lanzhou, China, but has been living in the United States since the age of 11, a country whose nationality he holds

He has received significant awards for his stories. With his collection The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, he won the Locus and Ignotus awards for the best anthology of 2017, also being a finalist for the World Fantasy. Liu made his novel debut with The Grace of Kings, his first work published in Spanish

In addition to being a writer, he is a translator of works from Chinese to English and, in fact, is the translator of Cixin Liu, one of the most highly regarded Chinese science fiction authors.

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