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Protestants, Catholics, aliens, just another division in Belfast. When the alien Shian come to Earth, they offer technology in exchange for a home. Belfast, Northern Ireland, is where eighty thousand of them settle. From that point on, the already-divided city takes on yet another partition. The Shi...
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| Language: | German |
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München :
Wilhelm Heyne Verlag,
[1998]
©1998. |
| Edition: | Deutsche Erstausgabe. |
| Series: | Heyne science fiction & fantasy ;
Bd. 5981. |
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| Summary: | Protestants, Catholics, aliens, just another division in Belfast. When the alien Shian come to Earth, they offer technology in exchange for a home. Belfast, Northern Ireland, is where eighty thousand of them settle. From that point on, the already-divided city takes on yet another partition. The Shian integrate themselves into the citys culture, becoming one more set of faces in the crowd. Now, a series of ghastly murders has stunned the city and affected both the Shian and the humans. Andy Gillespie, a Loyalist and former criminal, is immediately named the main suspect in the killings. To clear his name, he must find the true perpetrators, and in order to do so, he must get help from any source possible--be it Protestant, Catholic, or extraterrestrial. Shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, Sacrifice of Fools depicts a city at once familiar and peculiar. Belfast resident Ian McDonalds interpretation of his hometown is one in which the people live their lives to the best of their abilities; one in which they have to deal with the basics of life with extraterrestrials, from language barriers to surprising new fetishes. Here, Belfastians discover how little things truly change. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Sacrifice of fools; originally published by Gollancz in 1996. |
| Physical Description: | 444 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783453148673 3453148673 |