Yarn
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597802107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 309 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His first novel, Grey, was published in 2007 and was short-listed for the Philip K Dick Award. Jon Armstrong is a speculative fiction writer. That same year, Jon was also nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer.
"Armed with just his yarn pulls, scissors, Mini-Air-Juki handheld sewing machine , and his wits" according to Ove Jansson, Cybermage.se. Yarn is and isn't your ordinary cyberpunk story. Yarn is about Tane Cedar a master tailor and the story takes place in the world of fashion. My first thoughts were that this is outside my comfort reading zone but the stunning cover art and the blurb's talk about fashionpunk, saleswarriors and a love story reeled me in and I am very happy it did.Like in most good stories it involves a woman. In this case an ex-lover who is on the run from the author. Brilliant world-buildingbut yet? What I loved:It was the cover-art of this book that *really* grabbed me. I kept going back to where it was displayed at a FOGcon dealer table, and in the end decided to judge the book by its cover.The world-building was brilliant. I loved the Japanese cast to the whole thing, and using Fashion as the guiding principle of society was intriguing and unique. The descriptions were wonderfully evocative.But.There was some kind of mismatch between the pl. Style matters I knit and sew, and sometimes design clothing for myself, so I admit: I was prepared to condescend to Jon Armstong's book, Yarn. However, I speedily realized my error. Jon has been to design school and is miles ahead of me! I really thought I couldn't finish the book because it was so far over my head.However, I got a grip on myself, finished reading the story, and enjoyed the amazing storytelling. I will say I personally spent the most time marvel
While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.. When an ex-lover, on the run from the authorities, asks him to create a garment from the dangerous and illegal Xi yarn--a psychedelic opiate--to ease her final hours, Tane's world is torn apart.Armed with just his yarn pulls, scissors, Mini-Air-Juki handheld sewing machine, and his wits, Tane journeys through the shadowy underworld where he must untangle the deadlymysteries and machinations of decades of deceit.Following up on his highly acclaimed and Philip K. From the neo-feudalistic slubs, the corn-filled world of Tane's youth, to his apprenticeship among the deadly saleswarriors of Seattlehama--the sex-and-shopping capital of the world--to the horrors of a polluted Antarctica, Yarn tells a stylish tale of lo
Cities like Seattlehama are towering bastions of "sex and shopping" where "saleswarriors" and "salessoldiers" battle for customers. . Armstrong's stand-alone prequel to his 2007 debut, Grey, is set in the same superficial, dystopic near-future ruled by fashion and consumerism. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. All rights reserved. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. Tane Cedar, one of the world's top fashion designers, is confounded when his former lover Vada, a fugitive revolutionary, inexplicably appears near death in his showroom and asks him to complete the impossible task of finding illegal yarn and making a coat of it in just one day. Most people live in the sprawling agricultural areas called slubs. Armstrong's stylized tale is a profoundly moving fusi