Dark Eden : Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013

THE WINNER OF THE 2013 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST NOVEL CATEGORY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BRITISH FICTION ASSOCIATION BEST COVER DESIGN (SI SCOTT) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 BSFA AWARDS You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of Angela and Tommy. You shelter beneath the Forest's lantern trees. Beyond the forest lie mountains so forbidding that no one has ever crossed them. The Oldest recount legends of a time when men and women made boats that could travel between worlds. One day, they will come back for you. You live in Eden. You are a member of the Family, one of 532 descendants of two marooned explorers. You huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world. You are John Redlantern. You will break the laws of Eden, shatter the Family and change history. You will be the first to kill another, the first to venture into the Dark and the first to discover the truth about Eden. Winner Of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013 A Marooned Outpost Of Humanity Struggles To Survive On A Startlingly Alien World: Science Fiction As It Ought To Be From British Science Fiction's Great White Hope. You Live In Eden. You Are A Member Of The Family, One Of 532 Descendants Of Angela And Tommy. You Shelter Beneath The Light And Warmth Of The Forest's Lantern Trees, Hunting Woollybuck And Harvesting Tree Candy. Beyond The Forest Lie The Treeless Mountains Of The Snowy Dark And A Cold So Bitter And A Night So Profound That No Man Has Ever Crossed It. The Oldest Among You Recount Legends Of A World Where Light Came From The Sky, Where Men And Women Made Boats That Could Cross Between Worlds. One Day, The Oldest Say, They Will Come Back For You. You Live In Eden. You Are A Member Of The Family, One Of 532 Descendants Of Two Marooned Explorers. You Huddle, Slowly Starving, Beneath The Light And Warmth Of Geothermal Trees, Confined To One Barely Habitable Valley Of A Startlingly Alien, Sunless World. After 163 Years And Six Generations Of Incestuous Inbreeding, The Family Is Riddled With Deformity And Feeblemindedness. Your Culture Is A Infantile Stew Of Half-remembered Fact And Devolved Ritual That Stifles Innovation And Punishes Independent Thought. You Are John Redlantern. You Will Break The Laws Of Eden, Shatter The Family And Change History. You Will Be The First To Abandon Hope, The First To Abandon The Old Ways, The First To Kill Another, The First To Venture In To The Dark, And The First To Discover The Truth About Eden. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Aware 2013. The story of the Family, 532 descendants of two abandoned explorers who huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world. A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world: science fiction as it ought to be from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013 Descendants of a marooned couple on an inhospitable planet with only one tiny ecological niche outgrow it and are forced to deal with the consequences