Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History Lawrence-his writing is unfailingly elegant.”-Locus “One of the finest prose stylists around, and-borrowing as he does much of the melodrama of Victorian literature, along with the revisionist modernism of later authors like D. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic, or tragic … But it’s on the character front that MacLeod truly expends his best efforts and achieves the most.”-SF Signal

“An outstanding smoke-and-sorcery saga to rival Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy and China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station.”-Michael Moorcock

“Stands beside the achievements of China Miéville. “MacLeod brings a Dickensian life to the pounding factories of London in a style he calls ‘realistic fantasy.’ It’s a complete world brought to life with compassionate characters and lyrical writing.”-The Denver Post This is a limited collector's edition of 500, signed and numbered by the author.“A meditative portrayal of an exotic society, fascinating in its unhealthy languor and seemingly imperturbable stasis … so powerfully recalls Dickens’s that this affinity animates the entire work.”-The Washington Post Book World This annual conference is an awards ceremony in an 'Academy Awards' format, recognizing the best works of the publishing community in sixteen American states. Note: We were very pleased in July to announce that our book design for The Summer Isles and its production has been entered into the 2005 Chicago Book Clinic Book and Media Show. The novella went on to become a finalist for the 1999 Hugo Award and took home both the 1999 World Fantasy Award and the 1999 Sidewise Award for Alternate History, but has never been published in its original form. First published in Asimov's Science Fiction, the novella explored what might happen had England become the equivalent of Nazi Germany.

MacLeod's novella The Summer Isles took readers by storm in 1998. What would life in England look like in 1940 had the British lost World War I, replacing Germany 's role in history?Ī powerfully gripping story of a closeted homosexual trying to survive in an alternate history England, Hugo finalist Ian R.

The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod