Peter Dickinson (1) (1927–2015)
Autor(a) de Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
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About the Author
Peter Dickinson was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia on December 16, 1927. He served in the British Army before receiving a B.A. in English literature from King's College, Cambridge in 1951. He was an assistant editor and reviewer for Punch Magazine for seventeen years. His first mostrar mais book, The Weathermonger, was published in 1968. He has written over 50 books for adults and young adults. His works for adults include Death of a Unicorn, Skeleton-in-Waiting, Perfect Gallows, The Yellow Room Conspiracy, and Some Deaths Before Dying. His works for young adults include The Iron Lion, The Ropemaker, Angel Isle, and In the Palace of the Khans. He has won several awards including the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in 1989 for Eva, the Carnegie Medal in 1979 for Tulku and in 1980 for City of Gold, the Whitbread Children's Prize for Tulku, and the Crime Writer's Golden Dagger for Skin Deep in 1968 and A Pride of Heroes in 1969. In 2009, he was awarded the OBE for services to literature. He died after a brief illness on December 16, 2015 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Peter Dickinson
The James Pibble Mysteries Volume One: The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest, The Old English Peep Show, and The Sinful… (2017) 4 exemplares
Troll Blood [Short story] 2 exemplares
Ridiki [Short story] 1 exemplar
Wizand [Short story] 1 exemplar
Scops [Short story] 1 exemplar
The Fifth Element [Short story] 1 exemplar
Tales of Elemental Spirits 02 - Water 1 exemplar
Talaria [Short story] 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contribuidor — 235 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2012, Vol. 123, Nos. 3 & 4 (2012) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Dickinson, Peter Malcolm de Brissac
- Outros nomes
- DICKINSON, Peter Malcolm DE BRISSAC
DICKINSON, Peter - Data de nascimento
- 1927-12-16
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-12-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Livingstone, Zambia
- Local de falecimento
- Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Hampshire, England, UK
Livingstone, Zambia - Educação
- University of Cambridge (King's College)
Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK - Ocupações
- editor
author
poet - Relações
- McKinley, Robin (wife)
Dickinson, John (son) - Organizações
- Crime Writers' Association
British Army (1946-1948)
Punch magazine - Prémios e menções honrosas
- "Michael L. Printz (2002)", "Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award (2002)"
- Agente
- AP Watt
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Peter Dickinson was born and raised in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at King's College, Cambridge in 1951. He not only served in the British Army, but also as assistant editor and reviewer for Punch Magazine for seventeen years.
He has written several novels for adults, a television series for juveniles and many books for young people. Keeping track of the audience for whom he is writing is not a problem. He knows the voice in which he is writing and does not have to constantly remind himself. Many of his protagonists are female. He says, "...women are more observant. I think that girls are much more aware of social matters than boys, and therefore make much more interesting observers."
Over the years, Peter Dickinson has won many awards for his novels. In 1982 he was placed on the International Board of Books for Young People Honor List for Tulku and The Iron Lion was selected one of New York Times Notable Books. In 1989 he won the Boston Globe‚Horn Book Award for Eva.
Membros
Críticas
The publisher's overview: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people; in a modern segment, the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.
Dickinsen's dual timelines were very effective, a format that is often disruptive to the story flow. Reader engagement stays high and the tensions in both the prehistoric backstory and the modern era when the fossil hunters find hominid remains builds successfully.
The main characters are well-drawn: Li, in prehistoric times and Vinny, in the modern era. Li's story was an imaginary excursion into an early evolutionary period in hominids transiting life built around an aquatic environment to a terrestrial existence. While much of this aspect is purely fantasy, it was a marvellous underpinning for the African paleontology expedition where Vinny's father was working.
Technically, a very questionable standard of behaviour for excavating fossils by Dr. Hamiska (the leader of this investigation) was part of the story. He was a glory hog (not an uncommon problem in scientific group research). Hamiska destroyed more finds than were gained by his greedy, careless digging, counteracting the meticulous work of others. This aspect detracted my enjoyment of the archaeological work, making the personalities dominate the story and setting up strife between genuinely good experts and Hamiska's ham-handed nastiness. When good scientific practice by the lead investigator was so negligible, the narrative lost its focus in tying the fossil finds to the intriguing prehistoric story.
However, Hamiska's malice leads to a hugely satisfying dénouement. While some readers may find this a contrived plot device, such antics have become very common as tribal nations find their place on the world stage and take over control of their own pre- and early-historical resources.
The political undercurrents of academia and political interference were a truly insightful theme to develop in YA reading. Too often the glory and fame of so-called leading scientists ignore the reality that teamwork and collaboration can be overset by these factors. While Dickinsen downplayed this in the beginning, the theme developed in a realistic scenario. The novel left me wanting more story about the further career of Vinny's father and Mary Ana, one of the other scientists who was to continue on the dig.… (mais)
Dickinsen's dual timelines were very effective, a format that is often disruptive to the story flow. Reader engagement stays high and the tensions in both the prehistoric backstory and the modern era when the fossil hunters find hominid remains builds successfully.
The main characters are well-drawn: Li, in prehistoric times and Vinny, in the modern era. Li's story was an imaginary excursion into an early evolutionary period in hominids transiting life built around an aquatic environment to a terrestrial existence. While much of this aspect is purely fantasy, it was a marvellous underpinning for the African paleontology expedition where Vinny's father was working.
Technically, a very questionable standard of behaviour for excavating fossils by Dr. Hamiska (the leader of this investigation) was part of the story. He was a glory hog (not an uncommon problem in scientific group research). Hamiska destroyed more finds than were gained by his greedy, careless digging, counteracting the meticulous work of others. This aspect detracted my enjoyment of the archaeological work, making the personalities dominate the story and setting up strife between genuinely good experts and Hamiska's ham-handed nastiness. When good scientific practice by the lead investigator was so negligible, the narrative lost its focus in tying the fossil finds to the intriguing prehistoric story.
However, Hamiska's malice leads to a hugely satisfying dénouement. While some readers may find this a contrived plot device, such antics have become very common as tribal nations find their place on the world stage and take over control of their own pre- and early-historical resources.
The political undercurrents of academia and political interference were a truly insightful theme to develop in YA reading. Too often the glory and fame of so-called leading scientists ignore the reality that teamwork and collaboration can be overset by these factors. While Dickinsen downplayed this in the beginning, the theme developed in a realistic scenario. The novel left me wanting more story about the further career of Vinny's father and Mary Ana, one of the other scientists who was to continue on the dig.… (mais)
Not quite a mystery, nor did it fulfill the expectations I'd developed for the author's style. Still nicely written and an interesting glimpse of a particular setting. I'm willing to try another, I just don't think I picked the right book to start with.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 86
- Also by
- 14
- Membros
- 9,543
- Popularidade
- #2,522
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 236
- ISBN
- 676
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 27
But on rereading it, something King Victor II, Louise's father, does really shocked me. It was written in 1975 but still.