Air (novel)

Air, or Have Not Have is the full title of this novel, and of the short story which preceded it and forms the first chapter of the novel. Along with the Tiptree Award, Air won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the Sunburst Award (a Canadian award).

The novel tells the story of Chung Mae, who lives in an obscure village in Karzistan, an imaginary country loosely based on Kazakhstan. As the country goes online, and is brought into a worldwide direct-to-brain net called "air," Mae moves from being a local dressmaker to a business owner with an international clientele.

List of Reviews

• http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-0312261217-1
• http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-312-26121-7.html
• http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com/2006/05/geoff-ryman-air.html
• http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/blog/2006/05/19/book-review-air-by-geoff-ryman/
• http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intgr.htm Geoff Ryman Interview by Kit Reed
• http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/clarkes2006.htm