The Book of Phoenix
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Beschreibung
Prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death.
*** ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FINALIST***
They call her many things - a research project, a test-subject, a specimen. An abomination.
But she calls herself Phoenix, an 'accelerated woman' - a genetic experiment grown and raised in Manhattan's famous Tower 7, the only home she has ever known. Although she's only two years old, Phoenix has the body and mind of an adult - and powers beyond imagining. Phoenix is an innocent, happy to live quietly in Tower 7, reading voraciously and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human.
Until the night that Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated, Phoenix begins to search for answers - only to discover that everything that she has ever known is a lie.
Tower 7 isn't a haven. It's a prison.
And it's time for Phoenix to spread her wings and rise.
Spanning continents and centuries, The Book of Phoenix is an epic, incendiary work of magical realism featuring Nnedi Okorafor's most incredible, unforgettable heroine yet.
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Zukunft. Über Amerika hinweg sind Einrichtungen verstreut, in denen Menschen mit besonderen Gaben bzw. Fähigkeiten leben. Phoenix wächst in Tower 7 auf. Sie ist erst 2 Jahre alt, sieht aber aus wie eine erwachsene Frau und kann schnell Bücher lesen und aufnehmen. Eines Tages ändert sich jedoch alles und sie bricht aus und zerstört dabei Tower 7. Damit beginnt ihre Odyssee. Ich will nicht zu viel verraten, die Hintergründe sind mir nicht klar geworden und auch das Ende wirft eher Fragen auf.
It started out interesting, with a futuristic world then linking it to a world we can understand based in America. I only read the free sample, so I didn’t get that far. A woman who seems genetically modified is telling the story of her time with one of the other residents at the modification center. The resident died, and she is having an emotional reaction to it. I don’t find myself wanting to know what she feels. That is just a regular story of people and their loss of love. It’s not futuristic or interesting. I don’t hate the book and have a small amount of wonder about what the rest of the book is like, but I am going to going to stop reading here.
Beschreibung
Prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death.
*** ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FINALIST***
They call her many things - a research project, a test-subject, a specimen. An abomination.
But she calls herself Phoenix, an 'accelerated woman' - a genetic experiment grown and raised in Manhattan's famous Tower 7, the only home she has ever known. Although she's only two years old, Phoenix has the body and mind of an adult - and powers beyond imagining. Phoenix is an innocent, happy to live quietly in Tower 7, reading voraciously and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human.
Until the night that Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated, Phoenix begins to search for answers - only to discover that everything that she has ever known is a lie.
Tower 7 isn't a haven. It's a prison.
And it's time for Phoenix to spread her wings and rise.
Spanning continents and centuries, The Book of Phoenix is an epic, incendiary work of magical realism featuring Nnedi Okorafor's most incredible, unforgettable heroine yet.
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Beiträge
Zukunft. Über Amerika hinweg sind Einrichtungen verstreut, in denen Menschen mit besonderen Gaben bzw. Fähigkeiten leben. Phoenix wächst in Tower 7 auf. Sie ist erst 2 Jahre alt, sieht aber aus wie eine erwachsene Frau und kann schnell Bücher lesen und aufnehmen. Eines Tages ändert sich jedoch alles und sie bricht aus und zerstört dabei Tower 7. Damit beginnt ihre Odyssee. Ich will nicht zu viel verraten, die Hintergründe sind mir nicht klar geworden und auch das Ende wirft eher Fragen auf.
It started out interesting, with a futuristic world then linking it to a world we can understand based in America. I only read the free sample, so I didn’t get that far. A woman who seems genetically modified is telling the story of her time with one of the other residents at the modification center. The resident died, and she is having an emotional reaction to it. I don’t find myself wanting to know what she feels. That is just a regular story of people and their loss of love. It’s not futuristic or interesting. I don’t hate the book and have a small amount of wonder about what the rest of the book is like, but I am going to going to stop reading here.