Authors: Mark Budz
Crache (30 page)
About the Author
M
ARK
B
UDZ
is the author of
Clade
, which won a Norton Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. He lives with his wife in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California.
ALSO BY MARK BUDZ
Clade
Praise for the author’s previous book,
CLADE
a Philip K. Dick Award finalist:
“Smart, well-written, and highly imaginative,
Clade
does for cutting-edge biology what NEUROMANCER did for a cyber future. Budz may well have created a new genre: BioPunk.”
—
Kevin J. Anderson,
New York Times
bestselling co-author of
Dune: House Corrino
“A remarkable book. Scientific, tense, gritty and thoughtful,
Clade
pulls you into a bio-engineered tomorrow that may come startlingly true.”
—
David Brin, bestselling author of the
Uplift
series
“An excellent first novel . . . Budz has created an intelligent future that is highly original while evoking the best elements of the dramatic street stories of William Gibson.”
—Denver Post
“Budz writes poetically, with grand descriptive power. His characters are worriedly and necessarily in one kind or another of trouble. You’ll itch and fret for them, moms and brothers and lost kids and all. The very advanced tech surround, though, immerses the reader, and I want another dose.”
—San Diego Union Tribune
“
Clade
is a very accomplished first novel—indeed, it’s a very accomplished novel full stop. Budz’s characters are well drawn, the Californian setting is vivid, and, without preaching, he makes some strong points about the fragility of our environment . . . a striking debut.”
—Sci Fi Weekly,
A-pick
“Budz has imagined a world with sufficient texture and resonance to make it not only a rewarding place to explore, but one worth thinking about, and one worth revisiting.”
—Locus Magazine
“A fast-paced read animated by an engrossing, nervous energy.”
—Booklist
“
Clade,
a first novel by Mark Budz, demonstrates biotech’s story potentials admirably . . . the book’s heart beats with age-old questions of loyalty and betrayal, Information-Age questions of community and choice, and ageless questions of what makes a family. . . . Sure,
Clade
has bitchin’ new biotech. Sure,
Clade
has cool ideas and neat extrapolations and even funky AIs (called IAs, or Information Agents). But
Clade
also has mothers who love their children, brothers who stand up for each other, decent people trying to do the right thing, and a man and a woman who refuse to let this strange new world change what is most basic and human about them—their love and respect for each other.”
—Strange Horizons
CRACHE
A Bantam Spectra Book / December 2004
Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
All rights reserved
Copyright © 2004 by Mark Budz
Bantam Books, the rooster colophon, and the portrayal of a boxed “s” are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Published simultaneously in Canada
eISBN: 978-0-553-90080-4
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