I live in north west England and particularly enjoy speculative fiction, although am happy to try most well-written books.
You can also find me elsewhere on the Fediverse using the profile @losttourist@social.chatty.monster
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Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who …
Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. Set on the east coast in northern Scotland, …
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to …
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even …
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.The novel …
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw …
Upon finishing this book and reading the author's list of people he'd like to thank, I was slightly disappointed not to see the late Douglas Adams there. Because there is no doubt that the writing style was strongly influenced by HHGTTG and other works in that series.
This isn't sci-fi, at least not in the traditional sense, but neither is it fantasy in the traditional sense. It's in some ways akin to the worlds built by Neil Gaiman, where a normal existence is suddenly overlaid by elements of the fantastic. And if you like Gaiman, and Pratchett, and Adams and so on, you'll probably enjoy this.
The downsides: this was the author's first novel, and it shows. There are some over-complicated plots, and the cast of characters is perhaps a little too large to fully get to grips with, and as every one of them has more than one unpleasant …
Upon finishing this book and reading the author's list of people he'd like to thank, I was slightly disappointed not to see the late Douglas Adams there. Because there is no doubt that the writing style was strongly influenced by HHGTTG and other works in that series.
This isn't sci-fi, at least not in the traditional sense, but neither is it fantasy in the traditional sense. It's in some ways akin to the worlds built by Neil Gaiman, where a normal existence is suddenly overlaid by elements of the fantastic. And if you like Gaiman, and Pratchett, and Adams and so on, you'll probably enjoy this.
The downsides: this was the author's first novel, and it shows. There are some over-complicated plots, and the cast of characters is perhaps a little too large to fully get to grips with, and as every one of them has more than one unpleasant character flaw it's hard to feel much sympathy for the plight of any of them. But it's a good story with some nice touches and a couple of unexpected twists in the tale.
Leigh's upbringing in Rotterdam revolved around her fascination with the waterfront, which served as a sanctuary from her troubled family …
