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The world of fourteen year-old Tendeléo Bi is small, safe, stable:
school, farm, her father's church, the village of Gichichi. Then one
night, the Chaga comes, and everything is different. Advancing across
the plains of East Africa at ten metres every day, this alien
infestation transforms terrestrial life into something strange,
perilous, wonderful, and nothing can stop it.
Her village destroyed, Tendeléo becomes a refugee, with one need
that drives her on: a place she can call home. Trapped between the
relentless march of the Chaga, the UN and Nairobi street gangs, her
story moves across a southern hemisphere being terraformed into
someone else's terra and beyond: to a love that transcends continents,
worlds and a humanity on the edge of a staggering evolutionary leap,
and that, like the Chaga, will transfigure everything it touches.
Cover blurb of PS Publishing edition
Tendeléo's Story is an 80-page novella set in the same
milieu as Chaga and Kirinya.
The book comes with an introduction by Robert
Silverberg which speculates that the story in due course might
join with further stories in another Chaga volume (this might be Ananda).
Tendeléo's Story received the Theodore Sturgeon
Award in 2001.
Editions
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PS Publishing
(hardcover)
- 2000
- 80 pages. £25. Cover by David A. Hardy.
This edition of 300 copies is numbered and signed by both Ian
McDonald and Robert Silverberg.
ISBN 1-902880-13-7.
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PS Publishing
(paperback)
- 2000
- 80 pages. £8. Cover by David A. Hardy.
This edition of 500 copies is numbered and signed by Ian
McDonald.
ISBN 1-902880-12-9.
- Gollancz
- 2001
- Gollancz has published an omnibus edition of Tendeléo's
Story, together with novellas by Paul J. McAuley, Stephen Baxter
and Peter F. Hamilton under the title Futures. Edited by Peter
Crowther.
- Gollancz
- 2002
- Under the title Binary 3, Gollancz has published
Tendeléo's Story and Watching Trees Grow by Peter
Hamilton as a back-to-back double.
ISBN 0-575-07305-5.
- Warner Aspect
- 2001
- This is an American edition of the Gollancz edition of
Futures above.
ISBN 0446610623.
- St. Martin's
- 2001
- In The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual
Collection edited by Gardner Dozois. 617 pages. Hardcover,
0-312-26275-2 $29.95; trade paperback, 0-312-24617-8 $18.95.
Cover by David Hardy.
- Robinson
- 2001
- In The Mammoth Book of Best New SF: 14th Annual Collection
edited by Gardner Dozois.
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