Banks tells her story in a comfortable bedtime-story–ish third-person narrative voice that’s entirely appropriate to the situation. Her words lift off the page and form a magical thread that carries Tuesday and her dog, Baxterr, to the land where stories are written. Deciding to start with a beginning, Tuesday begins typing a story. Tiptoeing to the studio, Tuesday discovers a silver box containing a gossamer thread that spells “The End.” Intrigued, Tuesday places the thread on the last page of her mother’s manuscript, thinking that if the story ends, then her mother will return, but the words won’t stick. Denis seems unperturbed, assuring Tuesday that her mother will be home by breakfast, but Tuesday can’t sleep. They find Serendipity gone and the window in front of her typewriter desk wide open. When Serendipity doesn’t emerge from her studio one evening, Tuesday and her father, Denis, investigate. The tale begins ordinarily enough: Young Tuesday McGillycuddy is waiting for her mother, famous author Serendipity Smith, to finish the latest book in her wildly popular Vivienne Small series so they can have a family vacation. A middle-grade fantasy about the magic in writing stories.
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Reynolds' RS narratives are considered part of the wave of "New Space Opera" works, by mostly British science fiction authors, which began roughly in the late 1990s and continued throughout the early decades of the 21st century. The Revelation Space fictional universe depicts a fictional future history of humanity, within the trappings of a space opera milieu that has a generally hard science fiction focus. The Revelation Space universe (RSU) is the moniker traditionally given to the setting of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series. Waddilove, James, Gumsford St, Blackfriars, London, upholder (1786). in July 1830 and from 1835 at 21 Greek St, Soho. Wachers (or Wackers), Thomas, Soho, London, u and cm (1830–39). He is also recorded working at Chatsworth in the 1770s. In this period a large sideboard 12 ft in length and with tambour cylinder and folding doors was charged at £20, a library table with ten drawers, 6 ft long at £17 14s and a circular commode at £12 12s. Much of the work charged was obviously of a high quality and in 1783–84 much of it was specified as in purple wood. At Carlton House where he worked between 1783–89 he appears to have been under the supervision of Daguerre. This might suggest a specialist craftsman working in association with established furniture makers. It is also surprising that his name is absent from London trade directories. This low insurance cover does not altogether accord with the prestigious commissions that he undertook for the Prince of Wales and the nobility. Can possibly be identified with the John Wacker who took out insurance cover of £200 on his utensils and stock at Wells St in 1778. Wacher (or Wacker), John, London, cm (1778–89). |