Rynosseros

by Terry Dowling

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1875346015
• ISBN13: 9781875346011
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Guild America Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.1" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Australian SF Reader

If I have to grab a few books to save, to take with me somewhere, I take my Dowling SF with me, no doubt about it. Dowling and Arthur Conan Doyle would be the first two that come to mind, for fiction. Lyrical, beautiful. The Rynosseros and related stories can make you want to cry, make you angry, make you gasp. Rynosseros : Colouring the Captains - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : The Only Bird in Her Name - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : What We Did to the Tyger - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : Spinners - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : So Much for the Burning Queen - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : Mirage Diver - Terry Dowling Rynosseros : Time of the Star - Terry Dowling Tom Tyson, out of the Madhouse, wins a ship and finds out he will become a player between the artificial intelligences and the Ab'O. A sentient belltree names him a Coloured Captain, a Hero, and he must find out why. 5 out of 5 Tom, as an honorary Bird Club member, is in Twilight Beach to try and help the Forgetty survive the last legal hunt, if he can. 4.5 out of 5 Tom tries to talk an artisan out of his experiments with illegal sentient robots to monitor life. 4 out of 5 Tom takes passage on one of the largest charvolants, the combination of a doomed captain, a flawed dreamlock and a separatist failed Clever Man is very bad. 4 out of 5 A theatre manager takes Tom to see a clockmaker creating his own belltrees, haunted by the ghosts of the past. Tom does what he can to mitigate the situation. 4.5 out of 5 Tom and crew come to the Gaza hotel to watch the match between the two living fire-chess ex-lover Grand Masters. The stakes are very high. 4 out of 5 Tom is asked to investigate the state of a famous painter. 3.5 out of 5 Tom assists an Ab'O prince with the preservation of his tribe in a great battle on Lake Eyre. 5 out of 5

Tom Tyson Cycle Displays Rare Insights

Terry Dowling's Tom Tyson cycle of books (RYNOSSEROS is number one, followed by two more published collections - BLUE TYSON and TWILIGHT BEACH) are modern fantastic classics with resonances of JG Ballard, Jack Vance and others - but Dowling makes his future Australia, where great powered sandships roam the outback highways, and where tribal satellites spy on the Nationals (white race), a place of wonder and mystery. Importantly, there is now a NEW EDITION of RYNOSSEROS, which has become a modern classic in Australian sf: published by Mirrordanse Books in Sydney Australia, its ISBN is 095865834X. RYNOSSEROS (the book is named for Tom Tyson's sandship) is a work of profound intelligence which also makes gripping reading; as well, it displays rare insights into the nature of human interaction and the possibilities for reinvigoration of our sense of being human. The stories here are exotic, intriguing and brimming with strangeness that will lead you to read them more than just once!