Books by Geoff Ryman
Air: Or, Have Not Have
by Geoff Ryman
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology is Air. An initial testing of Air goes disastrously wrong and people are killed from the shock. Not to be stopped Air is arriving with or without the blessing of Mae's village. Mae is the only one who knows how to harness Air and ready her people for it's arrival, but will they listen before it's too late?
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Lust: Four Letters. Infinite Possibilities.
by Geoff Ryman
What if you could have sex with anyone in the world?
The ultimate fantasy? Or a nightmare of self-discovery? Michael Blasco, a young scientist investigating what happens to the brain during the process of learning, suddenly finds himself on the other end of experimentation. On the way home from his lab one night he runs into Tony, a fitness instructor from his gym who he harbors a crush for, on the same platform waiting for the subway. When Michael imagines Tony naked, a pleasant fantasy to spice up a dull journey home, an extraordinary thing happens: Tony strips then and there on the platform and offers himself to Michael in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back at his apartment, Tony reappears, as if by magic. And disappears again, when Michael wishes him away. Being a scientist, Michael recognizes an experiment when he sees one, and sets out to test the parameters of his newfound gift. In quick succession he conjures up Billie Holliday, Johnny Weismuller, Daffy Duck, Picasso, Sophia Loren, even his younger self.
The world is seemingly there for the taking. But what does Michael really desire? Mad with lust and losing all scientific objectivity, he runs the gamut of his fantasies inventing new lovers and calling up old ones, until, sated and morally bankrupt, he's forced to confront himself. What happens to the heart when it gets everything it desires?
From the renowned author of Was and 253 comes a witty, disturbing and intensely erotic fable for the modern age.
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When It Changed: 'Real Science' Science Fiction
by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Geoff Ryman, Sara Maitland, Patricia Duncker
Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence. Through the use of diverse, credible, and contemporary research areas—from Planck length to plankton and virtual conversations between Wittgenstein and Turing to future civilizations torn asunder by differences over particle physics—these stories reinstate the furnace of scientific endeavor. Comprised of research from practicing scientists at Manchester University and the stories of established authors—including Frank Cottrell Boyce, Geoff Ryman, Patricia Dunscker, and Sara Maitland—this anthology attempts to take science fiction into new, scientifically realistic fields while explaining the theory and technology behind each story.
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eleven (11)
by Naomi Novik, Paolo Bacigalupi, N. K. Jemisin, Joe Abercrombie, Catherynne M. Valente, Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Geoff Ryman, Daryl Gregory, Genevieve Valentine, Ken Liu, Lavie Tidhar
Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre’s best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.
Featuring // Catherynne M. Valente // Paolo Bacigalupi // Aliette De Bodard // Joe Abercrombie // Rich Larson // Naomi Novik // Alyssa Wong // Daryl Gregory // Alex Irvine // Sam J. Miller // Alice Sola Kim // Seth Dickinson // Carolyn Ives Gilman // Genevieve Valentine // Caitlín R. Kiernan // Amal El-Mohtar // Theodora Goss // Ian R. Macleod // Delia Sherman // Geoff Ryman // Nina Allan // N.K. Jemisin // Lavie Tidhar // Yoon Ha Lee // Paul Mcauley // Charles Yu // E. Lily Yu // Ken Liu
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The Child Garden: A Low Comedy
by Geoff Ryman
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards.
"An exuberant celebration of excess set in a resource-poor but defiantly energetic twenty-first century."The New York Times
"A richly absorbing talewith a marvelous premise expertly carried out."Kirkus Reviews
"Excellent. . . . Dark and witty and full of love, closely observed, and sprinkled with astonishing ideas. Science fiction of a very high order."Greg Bear
"One of the most imaginative accounts of futuristic bioengineering since Greg Bear's Blood Music."Locus
In a future London, humans photosynthesize, organics have replaced electronics, viruses educate people, and very few live past forty. But Milena is resistant to the viruses. She's alone until she meets Rolfa, a huge, hirsute Genetically Engineered Polar Woman, and Milena realizes she might, just might, be able to find a place for herself after all.
Geoff Ryman is the author of the novels The King's Last Song, Air (a Clarke and Tiptree Award winner), and The Unconquered Country (a World Fantasy Award winner), and the collection Paradise Tales. Canadian by birth, he has lived in Cambodia and Brazil and now teaches creative writing at the University of Manchester in England.
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Was A Novel
by Geoff Ryman
"A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art."--The New York Times
Was is a haunting novel which explores the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz:the "real" Dorothy Gale; Judy Garland's unhappy fame; and Jonathan, adying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittinglyintersects with the Yellow Brick Road. Geoff Ryman is the author of The King's Last Song, Air, Him, 253, The Child Garden, The Unconquered Country, and Paradise Tales. He has lived in Cambodia and Brazil, and now teaches at the University of Manchester, England.
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LA Strong A Charity Comic for Victims of the Los Angeles Fires
by Rob Denbleyker, Geoff Ryman, Jim McCann, Daniel Kibblesmith, Paul Cornell, Brian Michael Bendis, Jimmy Palmiotti, Stephanie Phillips, Jody Houser, Neil Kleid, Sina Grace, Susan Bridges, Christos Gage, Frank Tieri, Steve Orlando, Marv Wolfman, Brian Hawkins, Mario Candelaria, Amy Chase, Tilly Bridges, Dan DiDio, Rich Douek, Joey Esposito, Joshua Hale Fialkov, Meghan Fitzmartin, Melissa Flores, Marc Guggenheim, Richard Ashley Hamilton, Matt Harding, Timmy Heague, Megan Huang, Deric Hughes, Barbara Randall Kesel, Nick Marino, Ron Marz, Gary Maloney, Omar Morales, Benjamin Raab, Mark Sable, Omar Spahi, Joanne Starer, Amit Tishler, Jennie Wood, Jan Yoder
The comic book industry pulls together to support fellow creators who lost homes to the tragic 2025 Los Angeles fires with this benefit anthology special.
Winner of the 2025 Clampett Humanitarian Award!
In January 2025, powerful wildfires devastated Los Angeles county, leaving loss and heartbreak in their path. In the aftermath, the team at Mad Cave Studios, like so many around the world, wanted to help the people of Southern California L.A. Strong was born of this desire, bringing together dozens of creators from around the world with the goal of making as much money as possible doing what we do best -- Making comic books! Filled with reflective stories from some of the best and brightest in the comics industry, L.A. Strong is a love letter to the City of Angels, a meditation on home, an invitation to empathy, and so much more. Together, as a community, we stand L.A. Strong!
Like any great Hollywood production, L.A. Strong features cameos from an all-star lineup, including Barbara Kessel, Brian Azzarello, Brian Michael Bendis, Christos Gage, Dan DiDio, Daniel Kibblesmith, Frank Tieri, Greg Pak, Jimmy Palmiotti, Jody Houser, Marv Wolfman, Paul Cornell, Rob DenBleyker, Sina Grace, Stephanie Phillips, Steve Orlando, Alex Cormack, Alison Sampson, Amanda Conner, Christian Ward, Geraldo Borges, Ian Churchill, Michael Avon Oeming, Nico Leon, Rian Gonzales, Salvador Larroca, Sami Kivelä, and many, many more. Don't miss special appearances from comic stars like The Pedestrian, Cyanide and Happiness, and Tectiv, as well as local SoCal comic shops like Golden Apple Comics, Collectors Paradise, and Revenge Of!
100% of the profits will be donated to relief efforts.
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