Audible guided review:"Underwhelming-did Priest only write 1 good novel?"Would you try another book from Christopher Priest and/or Steven Cree?Christopher Priest books are a mixed bag - The Prestige was excellent, but the 2 others I've read are mediocre.What was most disappointing about Christopher ...
Some science fiction books are written just to entertain, some are depiction of the author’s vision of the future, and some are for conveying the author’s philosophical or political ideas. Occasionally I come a across sci-fi books that are pure thought experiments, where the authors sets out to expl...
SpoilersThis is a fascinating book with tremendous strengths and weaknesses. In a way, I wish that it had been written by Ballard or by Simmons who I think could have written it in such a way that it could have preserved the strengths and abandoned the weaknesses.The book concerns Helward Mann a yo...
Fantabidosy. The twist at the end threw me as I didn't expect it, I found the novel and the concept interesting and clever. This is the second novel I've enjoyed by this author, will hunt down some more.
The Inverted World is a cold book. Most of Priest's books are told in a stiff and remote mode, which frequently suits the alienated subject matter. It's not the case here.Faults:1 - The sterile environment depicted is reflected in the unemotional natures of the characters and of their relationships ...
I stumble into this sci-fi accidentally, was not looking or in the mood for one, which explained the small rating.It's really quite ok. At the beginning it reminded me a lot about [b:The Passage|6690798|The Passage (The Passage, #1)|Justin Cronin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327874267s/6690798.jpg|...
The Inverted World is choke-full of big ideas for a relatively short book. But the real problem with this book is, towards the end, Priest turns unconvincingly realistic with his approach and hence it seems a bit rushed and a lot of things are left unexplained.I think Priest wrote himself into a cor...
What a wonderfully executed book! The structure of the book, its pace, how it negotiates between first-person, third-person, and a more distanced narrator in one section, are all handled superbly and lend a cadence to the episodes in the novel as well.I did almost give up halfway through Part 1, and...
Though my knowledge of SF is obviously nearly less than zero – surpassed only on the downside by my understanding of science in general, I’m going to hazard a few thoughts about what seems (from my point of view, at least) to be wrong with this genre.Browsing today through the Sci-fi lists of some o...
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