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Book Title: Marcher
The author of the book: Chris Beckett
Edition: Cosmos Books
Date of issue: January 1st 2009
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Reader ratings: 4.4
ISBN: 084396197X
ISBN 13: 9780843961973
Language: English
Format files: PDF
The size of the: 6.29 MB
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I really enjoyed this. The author seems to have a good understanding of the truth behind whatever socioeconomic spin is political to use, as well as the long-term issues for both welfare recipients and social workers. (Just checked: yep, he's a qualified social worker with actual experience in the field. It shows.)

We're not hit over the head or drowned with scientific information, nor is there an infodump about the alternate reality (or realities) involved. In short, it feels very much like we're experiencing the story through the eyes of a fairly normal man with a couple of issues of his own, a man who's trying to find his own path through some murky ethics and who recognises the boundaries.

After turning the last page I immediately handed it to someone else to read, and I expect it'll be finished (again) before I have to return it.

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Chris Beckett is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author.

Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1977), a CQSW from the University of Wales (1981), a Diploma in Advanced Social Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1977), and an MA in English Studies from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (2005).

He has been a senior lecturer in social work at APU since 2000. He was a social worker for eight years and the manager of a children and families social work team for ten years. Beckett has authored or co-authored several textbooks and scholarly articles on social work.

Beckett began writing SF short stories in 2005. His first SF novel, The Holy Machine, was published in 2007. He published his second novel in 2009, Marcher, based on a short story of the same name.

Paul Di Filippo reviewed The Holy Machine for Asimov's, calling it "One of the most accomplished novel debuts to attract my attention in some time..." Michael Levy of Strange Horizons called it "a beautifully written and deeply thoughtful tale about a would-be scientific utopia that has been bent sadly out of shape by both external and internal pressures." Tony Ballantyne wrote in Interzone: "Let’s waste no time: this book is incredible."

His latest novel, Dark Eden, was hailed by Stuart Kelly of The Guardian as "a superior piece of the theologically nuanced science fiction".

Dark Eden was shortlisted for the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel.

On 27 March 2013 it was announced that Julian Pavia at Broadway Books, part of the Crown Publishing Group, had acquired the US rights to Dark Eden and Gela's Ring from Michael Carlisle at Inkwell Management and Vanessa Kerr, Rights Director at Grove Atlantic in London, for a high five-figure sum (in US dollars).

Beckett comments on his official website: "Although I always wanted to be a writer, I did not deliberately set out to be a science fiction writer in particular. My stories are usually about my own life, things I see happening around me and things I struggle to make sense of. But, for some reason, they always end up being science fiction. I like the freedom it gives me to invent things and play with ideas. (If you going to make up the characters, why not make up the world as well?) It’s what works for me."