Alastair Reynolds
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Review of House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
A dense mosaic of mesmerizing notions injected with a jumbo-sized hypo of s-f crack, rich with subtle corollaries of theory and conjecture. Huge, labyrinthine, wild. My first Reynolds. Now I have that combination of elation and despair, knowing that I’m in it for the long haul. I have to read…
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Review of Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
Second Reynolds after House of Suns. This one felt like he was phoning it in by comparison with the first. Still a decent s-f novel with a great concept. If you look at all of his concepts, they tend to be perfect set-ups. The backs of his books often read…
L. S. Popovich 