5/30/2023 0 Comments The Summer Isles by Ian R. MacLeod![]() “ The Summer Isles combines the profound melancholy of Orwell with the precise observance of Graham Green.” -Lucius Shepard ![]() “ The Summer Isles is one of the most powerful, compelling and compassionate novels ever written in any genre.” -Gardner Dozois But what can he do now, in a country that seems to be on the brink of cataclysm? ![]() It all goes back to a boy he remembers from his youth, who has now become the country's charismatic leader. Which, if it was discovered, would probably see him sent to a labour camp-or worse still, to the Summer Isles. That, and, in a country where intolerance and bigotry has become a national rallying cry, there's the issue of his supposedly deviant sexuality. Not only did he not go to the right schools, or attend university, but he cannot even understand Latin. Geoffrey Brook, seemingly a successful and respected history don at a venerable Oxford college, feels his whole life is a fraud. What would have happened if Britain and its allies had lost the Great War? From this premise, and through the compelling story of an outsider forever struggling to make sense of, or even change, the world, The Summer Isles takes a journey into the darker side of British nationalism. ![]() Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. ![]()
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