The next Alastair Reynolds?
Something Coming Through – aliens, LA noir, techno-thriller, dystopia ALL in the mix
Something Coming Through is a story that manages to be all over the genre map but still somehow work. We’re in clear sci-fi territory in one way – humanity has made first contact with aliens known as the Jackaroo, we’re now living on alien worlds and it’s a short hop into the future in Earth time. But otherwise, the book has …
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Sunday 22nd February 2015 19:24 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Aliens that refuse to show their faces is new?
+1. And at least a few others I've read over the years.
On the other hand, a story which doesn't start by explaining the way of the world over the first few chapters but assumes the reader is intelligent enough to pick it as they go along is an ok author in my book :-)
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Monday 23rd February 2015 11:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Aliens that refuse to show their faces is new?
Or Janusz Zajdel's "Out of the Shadows" - in which the aliens had more than one excellent reason not to show their faces... Yeah yeah, I know one of the commentards has already said "a few others" - but I am rather partial to Zajdel and his works deserve being mentioned as frequently as possible. Wish someone would finally translate Zajdel into English.
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Wednesday 25th February 2015 18:08 GMT Paw Bokenfohr
Purchased - it's the right price for an ebook.
+1 purchase for the ebook version - at £2 it's the right price that I'm willing to give it a go without any personal recommendations, which I usually need if I'm actually buying books (rather than using the library) because books are so expensive, even ebooks normally.