The Commons

Author:   Matthew Hughes
Publisher:   Red Deer College Press,Canada
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9780889953895


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 October 2007
Format:   Hardback
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"Includes the story The Helper and His Hero, nominated for a Nebula Award - Best Novella, 2007 For years now, 40,000 readers of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction have been reveling in the adventures of Matt Hughes's Guth Bandar, the hero of this novel. Hughes is one of the top voices in modern SF, and this book has a huge audience waiting for it. For 100,000 years, Old Earth's Institute for Historical Inquiry has mapped the collective unconscious of the human race. They have encountered all the archetypal figures - the Wise Man and the Fool, the Destroyer and the Redeemer - the ""usual suspects"" that populate the myths and legends at the back of the human mind. And now young Guth Bandar suspects the collective unconscious has become aware of itself. Worse, it has an agenda. And worst of all, it can force Bandar to go deep into the darkest forests of the mind, where the only escape from madness is death."

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Author:   Matthew Hughes
Publisher:   Red Deer College Press,Canada
Imprint:   Red Deer College Press,Canada
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.40cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780889953895


ISBN 10:   0889953899
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 October 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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The frantic pace and episodic structure make reading The Commons feel a bit like watching someone play a video game, with Bandar having to complete increasingly difficult levels as he gains experience points on his way to the final showdown. But it all makes for a rollicking fun ride. <br>-- Quill and Quire <p> Intriguing world with mind-expanding ideas; cool science-fantasy setting; deals heavily with archetypes yet avoids clichA(c). <br>-- SF Signal


The frantic pace and episodic structure make reading The Commons feel a bit like watching someone play a video game, with Bandar having to complete increasingly difficult levels as he gains experience points on his way to the final showdown. But it all makes for a rollicking fun ride. -- Quill and Quire Intriguing world with mind-expanding ideas; cool science-fantasy setting; deals heavily with archetypes yet avoids clichA(c). -- SF Signal


Author Information

Matthew Hughes's work has appeared frequently in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and numerous Year's Best anthologies. His previous novels include Fool's Errant and Black Brillion. He lives in British Columbia.

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