The Unconquered Country (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Geoff Ryman
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: Undefined
- Setting: The Unconquered Country, primarily the city of Saprang Song
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Other worlds, Ghosts or apparitions, Death or dying, Birds, Mathematics or mathematicians, Arms or weapons, Organ donation
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
The Unconquered Country: A Life History was written in 1982 after Geoff Ryman’s trip to Thailand and his secondhand observation of the genocide perpetrated in Kampuchea (then Cambodia) by the Pol Pot regime. The setting of Ryman’s book is an analogue to Kampuchea, with distinctive fantastic elements such as villages composed of living, loyal stilt houses and figures on advertising billboards that detach themselves at night to sing jingles to passersby.
Third Child lives in a village of the Unconquered People. The Neighbors, helped by the weapons of...
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