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SiFi gets personal with Chasm City Advantages: Fast paced, action packed, complicated Disadvantages: Sometimes too complicated. Lacking some periferal character detail. ...the often rancid, often sterile Chasm City. Indeed it is a marriage of both Good and Evil, sanity and insanity, the dirty and the clean which septate with dramatic distinction the sometimes confusing shifts in plot, location and time. Much like some sort of cart running away from any form of user screeching around corners to the point, but not over it, of a spillage. In some ways it is the charm of this that there is little time for stability or ... ...Any criticisms can come in the form of the lack of peripheral character development, as many of them seem just hollow in comparison to Tanner and the other main individuals. And the oddly rigid form of first person narrative which is not wholly successful. A great and enjoyable read, complicated and fast paced. Much fun will be had for SiFi/Fantasy lovers and those who just want a good Adventure with twists and turns galore! ... Karath 02.12.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Face Your Inhibitions Advantages: Spectacularly imaginative space opera Disadvantages: Slow going at first “Space,” as Douglas Adams once wrote, “is big.” And faced with the mind-bogglingly vastness of it, most science-fiction writers will invent a method of faster-than-light travel; thus did hyperspace, ultraspace and the warp drive come into being – not to mention various methods of wormhole creation and manipulation. How else are the writers’ heroes and villains going to travel the vast distances between stars? However, ... ...Einstein more literally. Alastair Reynolds is one of the few – not surprising really, considering that the Netherlands-based Welshman has also published several scientific papers, has piled higher and deeper in Astronomy, and currently works for the European Space Agency… His debut novel, “Revelation Space”, is the story of one man’s obsessive search for the truth behind the extinction of a long-dead race. As the book ... TallTone 10.01.2002 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Galactic North Advantages: fills in a lot of gaps Disadvantages: some weaker stories Galactic North is a companion pice for Reynolds Inhibitors series. It takes the storyline from the near future all the way to 25 thousand years hence. The book takes the form of a set of short stories, some spooky, such as Nightingale which is the exploration of a 'ghost' ship to deep time with Galactic North, which is the flag ship of the book. Galactic North itself is the reason why many Reynolds fans will want this book as it explains the rather ... RafK2survey 26.04.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Galactic North (Gollancz S.F.) - Alastair Reynolds	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Absolution Gap Advantages: Hard to put down Disadvantages: Last of 3 ...Redemption Ark and then finally Absolution Gap. Most of the old characters survive into this book, and the book goes on to complete the story. some new characters are introduced and some old ones die off. Quite a few new devices are born. The story starts on the world Arat where the refugees have ended up from the previous book. To save humanity and everyone else a trip to Hela is needed and the starship nostalgia for Infinity flies again. Hela ... ...built about the gas giant is very interesting in itself, especially how it came about and how it is maintained. The remains of an old alien race called the Scuttlers is being examined and provides clues on the way forward to defeat the inhibitors (also called the Wolves) Overall this book like the other ones is a fight between the various factions of humanity and the inhibitors and the discovery of weird and wonderful devices that may help us and ... Shoplord 21.02.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Absolution gap - Alastair Reynolds	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
It is not just about football! Advantages: It's very funny, and oh so true! Disadvantages: None The Disc, for those who don't know, continues to float in space, supported by the elephants who ride the back of the great swimming turtle A'tuin. The Hub about which the planet spins is a centre of great magic, and best avoided if you want to live a happy and contented life. At the outer perimeter is the great circle sea which unendingly streams over the rim into the void, which is best avoided if you want to continue to live at all. Most Discians ... ...Smeems, for instance, is the Candle Nave at the Unseen University. He has to worry about keeping the candles not just alight, but properly melted, artistically, gothicly, dribbled, as it were. Of course, there's Trevor to help. And there's Nutt. With two t's. Trevor Likely has a tendency to skive off work whenever possible, and to kick a tin can around. His dad was a legend. Nutt is… well, no-one's quite sure what Nutt is, even him. Goblin isn't ... hiker 07.12.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...