Dec 26, 2009

The Unconquered Country | The Unconquered Country

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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The Unconquered Country | The Unconquered Country

At a glance:

The Plot

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