Quipu
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Caroline is about to go psychotic—and given her family, it's no surprise. Joseph cannot talk to women even if he is a certified high-IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in‑laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile, Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu world. Quipus? They are the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before blogs were invented. Hikes? High-IQ clever dicks, of course. In
, Australian writer Damien Broderick reimagines his prize‑winning 1984 novel
as the surprising saga of a "family" of genius‑level, one‑of‑a‑kind individuals.
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About Damien Broderick
Damien Broderick is Australia’s dean of science fiction, with a body of extraordinary work reaching back to the early 1960s.
won two Year’s Best awards. His stories and novels, like those of his younger peer Greg Egan, are drenched with bleeding-edge ideas. Distinctively, he blends ideas and poetry like nobody since Roger Zelazny, and a wild, silly humor is always ready to bubble out, as in the cosmic comedy
. His award-winning novel
is featured in
, and was chosen as year’s best by Kingsley Amis. It was revised and updated as
. In 1982 Broderick’s early cyberpunk novel
coined the term
. His recent novels include the diptych
and
,
(with his wife, Barbara Lamar), and several collaborations with Rory Barnes:
, and
. Like one of his heroes, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Broderick is a master of writing about radical new technologies, and
and
have been Australian popular-science bestsellers. His long novella, “Quicken,” is the second half of the novel
, cowritten with Grand Master Robert Silverberg (an expansion of Silverberg’s “Born with the Dead”), and is the closing story in Gardner Dozois’s
. In 2005 Broderick received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
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