I still dream was a very good speculative sci-fi and has confirmed my love of James Smythe (as if I needed it) even more. When the book opens we meet Laura when she’s a teenager. She’s destroying the latest phone bill to have hit the mat before her mother and step-father discover it. The reason sh...
[I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.]Although I didn’t adore this book, I found it to be an interesting take on artificial intelligence; on what contributes to developing an AI; on the trials and errors involved, and on how the best intentions can be tainted by poor execution, like what h...
I'll admit I was a bit wary when I picked up Djinn Falls In Love: tempted by authors such as K.J. Parker and Claire North, I worried that the collection itself might suffer from repetition. I needn't have worried. The collection demonstrates a truly staggering variety of perspectives on the concept ...
As those of us who have nothing better to do than stalk me know, I really like James Smythe's books. When this first cropped up on my radar, for some reason I thought it was YA, which it isn't, so I wasn't really on the look-out for it. Happily, I have a rather fabulous local library who have a knac...
This book had a fantastic premise and as soon as I read the synopsis, I couldn’t wait to start it. Set in a future where everyone uses a programme called ClearVista that can predict, with unparalleled accuracy, the probability of an event happening, our protagonist, Lawrence Walker, uses it to pre...
I was really starting to love this author after I read the first two books in the fantastic Anomaly Quartet, which both follow a manned mission into space. My review of the second book is here: http://hollym85.booklikes.com/post/1035489/the-echo-by-james-smythe If space is your thing, I recomme...
Ever since I read this fantastic book, I’ve been on a James Smythe kick! Currently I’ve read two of his books and am in the middle of another. Unlike a lot of authors I really like, all of his other books interest me. I’m just wondering if this happens with anyone else, but a lot of the time, even w...
Regular payers of attention will know I like James Smythe. A lot. He's a sci-fi writer, but of the human character type rather than the epic space opera type. He is Ridley Scott and Duncan Jones rather than George Lucas. The Echo is the followup to The Explorer (my review: very good, although not ...
To begin with, The Testimony is ... thorough, shall we say. The "talking heads" style narrative feels slow to get going, but the fault for this should be laid at the feet of the blurb: it takes 25% of the book to cover the receipt of the message. However, once it gets going, it gets going. It's a ...
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