The Fortunate Fall
$45.44
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2025
Summary
A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton.
Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.
On its first publication in 1996, The Fortunate Fall was hailed as an SF novel of a wired future on par with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250326690 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1250326699 |
| Author: | Raphael Carter |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 139mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“Heartbreakingly beautiful…prose as rich and textured as the characters and society it describes. [Cameron Reed] combines William Gibson’s dazzling talent for technological extrapolation with Theodore Sturgeon’s unerring knowledge of the human heart.” –Susan Palwick
“The voice of The Fortunate Fall is by turns ironic and vulnerable, clear and strong.” –Maureen McHugh, author of China Mountain Zhang
“Vibrant, sweet, and tragic, The Fortunate Fall is a tailored virus that rewrote some of my code….Attempts impossible things and succeeds brilliantly.”–Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun, with Occasional Music
“The best novel about wired culture since the SF debut of Neal Stephenson.”–Lisa Goldstein
“Confrontations reminiscent to me of nothing so much as the ‘Grand Inquisitor’ sections of The Brothers Karamazov… it isn’t often that we find a book which tackles dead-on the central conflicts between personal and political life, not to mention the question of the nature of the soul. Complex, strong and ambitious.”–Suzy McKee Charnas, author of The Furies
“If there’s a better first novel published this year, I’ll eat my hard drive.”–Emma Bull
“As good as books get.” –Jo Walton
“A stunningly imagined and developed backdrop … an assured, noteworthy, auspicious debut.” –Kirkus
“This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years.” –Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
”‘Warm and human even as it’s post human, ’ as Jo Walton observes in her introduction, Reed’s remarkable debut skillfully blends mind-bending speculation with riveting intrigue, alluring romance and harrowing drama, set in a prescient de-souled future.“–Library Journal, Starred Review
“One of the most brilliant sf debuts in years” –Booklist
Raphael Carter
Cameron Reed is a science fiction writer and the winner of the 1998 Otherwise Award. She is an avid dragonfly-watcher, a moderately skilled insect photographer, and a hopeless birder. After a long and complicated path through gender, she has come to rest as a nonbinary trans woman and uses the pronouns she or they. She lives with her found family in an old duplex full of books and cats.
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