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The Life Business by John Grant

The Life Business
The Life Business

With astonishing power, award-winning author John Grant portrays the human facility to falsify history, using as his backdrop the beginnings of the late-20th-century troubles in Northern Ireland, as an unwitting mainland schoolboy finds himself caught up in a violence he barely understands.

Published: 11 Nov 2011

(infinity plus singles, number 6)


John Grant

John Grant was the author of more than seventy books, including the critically acclaimed Discarded Science, Corrupted Science, and Bogus Science. In addition to his popular science writing, Grant was a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer. He won two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. He coedited with John Clute The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and wrote all three editions of The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Under his real name, Paul Barnett, he wrote several books and ran the world-famous fantasy-art-book imprint Paper Tiger, for this latter work winning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award.

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All the Little Gods We Are Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie? Warm Words & Otherwise: A Blizzard of Book Reviews infinities Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi Take No Prisoners

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Rites of Passage Faking It: accounts of the General Genetics Corporation Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi Little Sisters of the Apocalypse Lizard Lust The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories Head Shots Deep Future Fear of Widths Red Dot Irreal