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Candy is a young girl with a high I.Q., a natural talent for martial arts and the |
Candy is a young girl with a high I.Q., a natural talent for martial arts and the ability to perform quick bursts of near superhuman activity. One day, her father is called to Washington to deal with a mysterious problem. While he is gone, a disease wipes out most of humanity. Candy lives at her house for a while, as she has many emergency supplies. She soon realizes that she must venture outside. She decides to go exploring for supplies and to figure out what happened. Her original companion is a loyal parrot but later she meets other survivors. |
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 First Edition cover of Emergence | |
| Author | David R. Palmer |
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| Cover artist | Jim Burns |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
Publication date | November 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-25519-3 (first edition, paperback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
Emergence is a science fiction book written by David R. Palmer and first published by Bantam Spectra in November 1984. It had three printings through July 1985, and was republished in 1990 as a "Signature Special Edition" with a few minor edits and a new afterword by the author.
Emergence was Palmer's first published novel. It was developed from a pair of Hugo[1] and Nebula award nominated novellas originally published in somewhat different form in Analog magazine. The novel itself was nominated for a Hugo Award, a pair of Locus awards (for first novel and science fiction novel), was a finalist for a Philip K. Dick Award, and won the Compton Crook Award.[1]
Plot
Candy is a young girl with a high I.Q., a natural talent for martial arts and the ability to perform quick bursts of near superhuman activity. One day, her father is called to Washington to deal with a mysterious problem. While he is gone, a disease wipes out most of humanity. Candy lives at her house for a while, as she has many emergency supplies. She soon realizes that she must venture outside. She decides to go exploring for supplies and to figure out what happened. Her original companion is a loyal parrot but later she meets other survivors.
Style
The writing style of Emergence is especially unusual, as it is written in sentences almost entirely without subjects, intended to simulate shorthand.
Much of it resembles Candy's journal; later other characters point of view are highlighted.
In April 2008 David R. Palmer announced that a movie option for Emergence has been sold, and a screenplay written.[2]
Tracking, the sequel to Emergence, is being serialized in three parts by Analog SF magazine, commencing with the July/August double issue in 2008.
Novellas
- Emergence -- published in an Analog anthology titled Children of the Future on January 5, 1981.[3] It was nominated for a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a Locus Award, and won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award.[1] Palmer was nominated for the 1983 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction[1] on the strength of this novella. A somewhat different form became the first volume of the novel.
- Seeking -- published in the February 1983 Analog magazine.[4] It was nominated for a Hugo, a Locus, and won an Analog Analytical Laboratory Award.[1] A somewhat different form became the second volume of the novel.
References
External links
- Review written by Russ Allbery in the style of the book
- Review by Susan Stepney
- Review by David Dyer-Bennet
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