Mitchell, David : Cloud Atlas

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Literary SF novel beginning with a voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850 and following six story threads into a future "of corporate cloning and the fall of civilisation"; the third novel by a young UK author selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. The book was published earlier this year in Britain [Locus Online description].

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The publisher's site has this description and excerpt.

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John Clute reviewed it in SF Weekly.

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Amazon has the PW review, which concludes "[R]eaders who enjoy the "novel as puzzle" will find much to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work."