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Fairyland paul mcauley5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Milena has created the fairies for her own ends, some of the Folk, as fey and dangerous as any in legend, have other ideas about her destiny. Milena isn't sure if she's mad or if she's the only sane person left in the world she only knows that she wants to escape to her own private Fairyland and live forever. At the cost of three hours of his life, he finds an unlikely ally in a scary, super-smart little girl called Milena, but his troubles really start when he helps Milena quicken intelligence in a Doll, turning it into the first of the fairies. In London, Alex Sharkey is trying to make his mark as a designer of psychoactive viruses, whilst staying one step ahead of the police and the Triad gangs. Country (1996) and in the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel Fairyland (1995). Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic upheaval. Hard Science, Radical Imagination: an interview with Paul J McAuley. ![]()
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