![]() ![]() The result of Alex’s labours, as he seeks to play the various parties off each other, is the creation at Milena’s instigation of a new species, the fairy. ![]() But Alex falls under pressure from other quarters as well, particularly from Milena, a mysterious pre-teen girl prodigy who hopes to break the dolls’ biochemical controls for her own purposes. A gangland contact coerces Alex into developing a treatment which will allow dolls, a cloned race of neutered and rigidly-controlled slave labour, to become capable of sexual reproduction. His stock-in-trade is legal, for the moment, but that’s about to change. I’ve read several of McAuley’s books, including most of those that preceded Fairyland, but for one reason or another this one passed me by on its original release.Īlex Sharkey is a biochemical hacker, a designer of tailored psychoactive viruses in 21st-century London. It’s been reissued as one of Gollancz’s eight ‘Future Classics’. ![]() (Review first published on the ASIM website, February 2008)įairyland, McAuley’s sixth SF novel, was first published in 1995. ![]()
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