![]() ![]() : Review edited to suit the new information provided (the official blurb, full wraparound, etc.). ![]() ![]() Note that it will take me a while to find gifs that properly suit my emotions for each story, so this review is still a "work in progress". Occasionally he talks to real people, but only when he absolutely has to.Ģ6.7.14: Review edited to suit my thoughts after reading the novella. He is also far too modest to mention things like the first book being a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, but would like to extend an invitation to Oprah to pop around one day for tea, in thanks for selecting his book for the Oprah’s Book Club Kids Reading List.ĭerek plays too many video games, reads too many comics, and watches too many movies. He doesn’t like to brag about all the awards he’s won, such as the Irish Book of the Decade, or the Red House in the UK, or all the other awards that he humbly displays on his mantelpiece. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script. In addition to the bestselling children's/YA series of Skulduggery Pleasant books, a supernatural mystery series starring Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and Valkyrie Cain, a young female magician, he has written two screenplays that have been made into films: the IFTA award winning "Dead Bodies" and the IFTA nominated "Boy Eats Girl". Derek Landy is an Irish writer and screenwriter. ![]()
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Publications: Cradle of the Sun, 1969 The Blind Worm, 1970 The Days of Glory, 1971 In the Kingdom of the Beasts, 1971 Day of Wrath, 1971 To Challenge Chaos, 1972 The Halcyon Drift, 1972 Rhapsody in Black, 1973 Promised Land, 1974 The Paradise Game, 1974 The Fenris Device, 1974 Swan Song, 1975 The Face of Heaven, 1976 Man in a Cage, 1976 The Florians, 1976 The Mind Riders, 1976 Mysteries of Modern Science, 1977 Critical Threshold, 1977 The Realms of Tartarus, 1977 Wildeblood's Empire, 1977 The City of the Sun, 1978 The Last Days of the Edge of the World (juvenile), 1978 Balance of Power, 1979 The Walking Shadow, 1979 The Paradox of the Sets, 1979 Optiman, 1980, in U.K. Career: University of Reading, lecturer in sociology, 1977-88. Genres: Science fiction/Fantasy, Young adult fiction, Literary criticism and history, Translations. Also writes as Brian Craig, Francis Amery. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most famous pello players, known as The Bull, comes from the village where the main character, Esteya, lives, and the story begins when he returns for a visit and is challenged to a game. Every year the top players compete for the King’s Cup. It’s a brutal, aggressive game involving two players bouncing a ball against a wall, hard enough to do each other considerable damage. It gives it a mythical quality that makes the story resonate, it increases the sense of isolation and thus the intensity, and finally, it allows Collins to create a national sport, pello, which the characters are fanatical about. But the refusal to tie Love in Revolution to a particular time or place is a very successful decision. She’s written historical before ( The Broken Road, a story about the Children’s Crusade, based in medieval Germany) and a ghost story with a brilliantly realised partly historical setting ( Tyme’s End). ![]() ![]() There are televisions, but many of the people still live a peasant lifestyle, so it’s some time in the late twentieth century. I had this book in my ‘Young Adult Historical’ folder for a while but it was only when I was a few chapters in that I realised it wasn’t historical: Collins has set her story in an imagined country at a time that is never made clear. ![]() |