Brasyl

THANKS

Daniela Prodohl, Paulo Prodohl, and Cleusa Nascimento for help with the Portuguese and rowdy arguments over doces on fine points of idiom. Any egregious errors are entirely my own.

Zack Appleton for assistance with biofuels.

Heidi Hopeametsa and Syksy Rasanen for lunch, capoeira, and physics.

SELECTED READING

The intellectual godfather of this book is David Deursch’s The Fabric of Reality. A few years old, but one of the most intellectually thrilling books I have read.

Books in English about Brazil are surprisingly hard to find: there are ten times as many about Cuba, a country you could lose in the Itaipu Dam, as there are abour Brazil. Nevertheless, here are a few volumes I found special.

John Hemming: Red Gold. Peerless, beautiful, and grim, this is the definitive history of the Brazilian Indians.

David G. Campbell: A Land of Ghosts. A beautifully written, humane account of the ecology and peoples of western Amazonia.

Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti: The Brazil Reader. Invaluable for the 134 types of skin color alone.

Euclides da Cunha: Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões). Classic, stu

Alex Bellos: Futebol. The Guardian’s Brazil correspondent has produced the best book about the beautiful game in Brazil and the essential guide about how to be Brazilian. I freely admit sampling his definitive account of the Fateful Final. Not a dull page in it.

Peter Robb: A Death in Brazil. Fascinating journalistic study of political corruption in the northeast, but also a history, a travel book, and a cookbook as well.

Siri: “No Tranco”

Suba: “Tantos Desejos” (Nicola Come remix)

Samba de Coco Raizes de Arcoverde: “Gode Pavao”

Acid X: “Uma Geral”

Bebel Gilberto: “Tanto Tempo”

Suba: “Na Neblina”

Fala: “Propozuda R’n’Roll”

Salome de Bahia: “Taj Mahal” (Club Mix)

Céu (feat. Pyroman): “Malemôlencia”

Milton Nascimento: “Travessia”

Carlinhos Brown/Mestre Pintodo do

Bongo: “Ai”

Bebel Gilberto: “Sem Contenção” (Truby Trio remix)

Mylene: “Nela Lagoa”

Tijuana: Pula

Carlinhos Brown: “Água Mineral”

Pagode Jazz: “Sardinha’s Club”

Suba: “Você Gosca”

Bonde Das Bad Girls: “Montagem Skollboll”

Suba: “Abraço”

Milton Nascimento: “Cio da terra”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I A NM c D O N A L D is the author of many science fiction novels, including Desolation Road; King of Morning , Queen of Day; Out on Blue Six; Chaga; Kirinya; and River of Gods. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and the BSFA Award, been nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award, and has several nominations for both the Hugo Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The Washington Post called him “one of the best SF novelists of our time.” He lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland.