Ian McDonald‘s critically-acclaimed science fiction novel BRASYL is now available in Brazil! Due to be published by Saída de Emergência next month, here is the synopsis…
Três personagens, três histórias, três Brasis. Ligados através do tempo, do espaço e da realidade.
Edson é um empresário de celebridades, tentando sair das favelas de São Paulo em um futuro não muito distante. Um encontro aleatório o fez cair no mundo perigoso da computação quântica, sem ter para onde fugir em um Brasil em que cada rosto e centavo é rastreado.
Marcelina é uma produtora de TV que sai pelas ruas do Rio em busca do sucesso que lhe trará fama. Quando uma ideia para um programa a faz rastrear os traços do mais infame goleiro do futebol brasileiro, se envolve em uma antiga conspiração que ameaça não só a sua vida, mas também a sua alma.
Padre Luís é um missionário jesuíta que vasculha as profundezas da Floresta Amazônica do século XVIII em busca do padre renegado que tenta estabelecer um império. Mas o que ele encontra aí põe em cheque a sua fé e a própria realidade.
BRASYL is published in the US by Pyr Books, and in the UK by Gollancz. Here is the English-language synopsis…
Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world’s greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.
Three separate stories follow three main characters:
Edson is a self-made talent impresario one step up from the slums in a near future São Paulo of astonishing riches and poverty. A chance encounter draws Edson into the dangerous world of illegal quantum computing, but where can you run in a total surveillance society where every move, face, and centavo is constantly tracked?
Marcelina is an ambitious Rio TV producer looking for that big reality TV hit to make her name. When her hot idea leads her on the track of a disgraced World Cup soccer goalkeeper, she becomes enmeshed in an ancient conspiracy that threatens not just her life, but her very soul.
Father Luis is a Jesuit missionary sent into the maelstrom of 18th-century Brazil to locate and punish a rogue priest who has strayed beyond the articles of his faith and set up a vast empire in the hinterland. In the company of a French geographer and spy, what he finds in the backwaters of the Amazon tries both his faith and the nature of reality itself to the breaking point.
Three characters, three stories, three Brazils, all linked together across time, space, and reality in a hugely ambitious story that will challenge the way you think about everything.
BRASYL has also been published widely in translation — more details can be found on Ian’s author page.
Gollancz are due to publish Ian’s next novel in the UK, LUNA: NEW MOON, in September 2015. The book will be published in the US by Tor Books, also in September.