In case you missed it, there’s a new Italian edition of Lavie Tidhar‘s multi-award-winning CENTRAL STATION! Published by Urania as STAZIONE CENTRALE, it was translated by Francesca Noto. Here’s the synopsis…
Tel Aviv si è trasformata: nel cuore della città ora sorge un avveniristico spazioporto, un crocevia fra la Terra e le stelle. Qui, nel viavai di androidi e macchine, si intrecciano le esistenze di chi è rimasto indietro. Boris Chong è di ritorno da Marte per ricucire il rapporto con il padre e affrontare il mistero che grava sulla sua famiglia; Mama Jones aspetta ogni venerdì con un bambino “speciale”, capace di incantare l’acqua. Carmel, una vampira che divora dati, si muove nell’ombra; il Signore delle Cose Abbandonate raccoglie frammenti del mondo dimenticato. A Tel Aviv le connessioni umane sfidano i confini fra tecnologia, fede e genetica.
CENTRAL STATION is published in the UK and North America by Tachyon Publications — who also publish the sequel, NEOM. Here’s the English-language synopsis…
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper.
When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik — a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return.
Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation — a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness — are just the beginning of irrevocable change.
At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive… and even evolve.
Here are just some of the awards and commendations the novel has won so far…
- John W. Campbell Award Winner
- Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award Winner
- Xingyun Award Winner
- Arthur C. Clarke Award, Shortlist
- British Science Fiction Award, Longlist
- Geffen Award nominee, Best Translated Science Fiction Book
- Premio Italia, Best International Novel, Finalist
- Kurd Laßwitz Preis Shortlist
- NPR Best Books
- Amazon Featured Monthly Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
- Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List
Lavie’s latest novel is the acclaimed GOLGOTHA, published by Apollo/Head of Zeus.
