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It begins with an explosion. Another day, another bus bomb. Everyone it seems is after a piece of Turkey. But the shockwaves from this random act of 21st century pandemic terrorism will ripple further and resonate louder than just Enginsoy Square.
Welcome to the world of The Dervish House; the great, ancient, paradoxical city of Istanbul, divided like a human brain, in the great, ancient, equally paradoxical nation of Turkey. The year is 2027 and Turkey is about to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its accession to the European Union; a Europe that now runs from the Arran Islands to Ararat. Population pushing one hundred million, Istanbul swollen to fifteen million; Turkey is the largest, most populous and most diverse nation in the EU, but also one of the poorest and most socially divided. It's a boom economy, the sweatshop of Europe, the bazaar of central Asia, the key to the immense gas wealth of Russia and Central Asia.
Gas is power. But it's power at a price, and that price is emissions permits. This is the age of carbon consciousness: every individual in the EU has a card stipulating individual carbon allowance that must be produced at every CO2 generating transaction. For those who can master the game, who can make the trades between gas price and carbon trading permits, who can play the power factions against each other, there are fortunes to be made. The old Byzantine politics are back. They never went away.
The ancient power struggled between Sunni and Shia threatens like a storm: Ankara has watched the Middle East emerge from twenty-five years of sectarian conflict. So far it has stayed aloof. A populist Prime Minister has called a referendum on EU membership. Tensions run high. The army watches, hand on holster. And a Galatasary Champions' League football game against Arsenal stokes passions even higher.
The Dervish House is seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one central common core--the eponymous dervish house, a character in itself--that pins all these players together in a weave of intrigue, conflict, drama and a ticking clock of a thriller.
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- Christopher East » Novel: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald has been working his way up my list of favorite SF writers over the past few years, and The Dervish House (2010) just brought him that much closer to the top. Both in the impressive Brasyl and the spectacular River of Gods, ... - Ian McDonald's DERVISH HOUSE, superb novel of the mystical nano ...
I've just finished Ian McDonald's new novel, The Dervish House. I know what to expect from Ian McDonald: broad vistas, intricately imagined futures, poetic language that transports and delights, a blend of mysticism and science that ... - Review: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald « Dreams and Speculation
It's almost impossible to explain, but there's a force to The Dervish House and it's absolutely compelling. Actually, I suppose I should admit that this is my first Ian McDonald novel. In the past, I've been told quite a few times that ... - PUNKADIDDLE: Ian McDonald, The Dervish House (2010)
Ian McDonald, The Dervish House (2010). Finishing McDonald's new novel was a mixed experience for me. On the one hand I read it with a bicameral delight (it's not a spoiler to say that, at the heart of this dense, rich, honeyed wonder ... - BOOK REVIEW The Dervish House – Ian McDonald
Having set books in Africa, India and Brazil, Ian McDonald's entire oeuvre is clearly nothing more than an excuse to pass off exotic holidays as research trips. Sure, travelling to Istanbul, the setting for The Dervish House, ... - Alternative Worlds » The Dervish House-Ian McDonald
The Dervish House Ian McDonald. PYR, Jul 27 2010, $26.00. ISBN: 9781616142049. In 2027 in Istanbul, Turkey Necdet rides the jammed tram to work, but though he is not a creep he cannot stop staring at the young woman with the red ... - Val's Random Comments: The Dervish House - Ian McDonald
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald is one of the most anticipated books of 2010 for me. In recent years McDonald has written an number of novels and short stories set in places most science fiction does not venture. ... - Neth Space: Review: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
In the year 2027, another anonymous suicide bomber on a tram in the middle of an early heat wave sets the stage for The Dervish House. The backdrop is a Turkey that is new to the European Union in a world heating up with climate change ... - The Dervish House book review | SciFiNow
Ian McDonald's The Dervish House. - The Wertzone: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald. Istanbul, the Queen of Cities, the bridge between east and west, in 2027 freshly-accepted into the European Union and now awash with new money and new technology. Nanotech is the future, tiny machines ...
