“Voke me active ching privilege. I need to drive your body.” Alastair Reynolds’ does John Wyndham’s “The Outward Urge” and the results are delicious. A more basic plot than usual is offset by great ideas and a hectic final 100 pages promising major consequences in the next two installments. Since co...
For me, the best thing about "Blue Remembered Earth" was the narration by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. His energy and his mastery of all kinds of interesting accents, made this long book a stimulating, if leisurely quest rather than a tediously long journey. Set a couple of centuries in the future, afte...
For me, the best thing about "Blue Remembered Earth" was the narration by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. His energy and his mastery of all kinds of interesting accents, made this long book a stimulating, if leisurely quest rather than a tediously long journey.Set a couple of centuries in the future, after t...
For me, the best thing about "Blue Remembered Earth" was the narration by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. His energy and his mastery of all kinds of interesting accents, made this long book a stimulating, if leisurely quest rather than a tediously long journey.Set a couple of centuries in the future, after t...
Poseidon’s Children #1 I wasn’t sure what to make of this book based on the description, but it was one that I’d been meaning to read, I needed a new book to listen to, and the narrator is the same guy who reads the Peter Grant books (which apparently upset some of Alastair Reynolds’s regular audi...
Blue Remembered Earth is set 150 years into the future, at a time when Africa has become the central dominant power in a society that is a semi-totalitarian near utopia. When the protaganist, Geoffrey's, grandmother, a cantankerous rescluse, who lived her life as an explorer and adventurer, dies she...
First of a projected trilogy, with the second available in hardback at the time of writing. Intra-family strife, secrets, the death of a Matriarch and a trans-solar-system treasure hunt for - who knows what? Imagine what The Da Vinci Code could have been if written by a competent SF novelist as op...
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