Advantages: Stylistically cool, sociologically inspiring, good action and characters Disadvantages: First couple of pages are incomprehensible, get past them and you are cruising.
Brunner wrote this book 30 years ago, and it is a startling accomplishment. He may have got the timescale wrong, as he describes the world of 2010, but he hit the trends on the head and did it in a startlingly original way.
The world he describes is over ...
Advantages: Gothically enchanting work Disadvantages: Rather too short
Gather closely round the fire children, as the cold winds blow and the candles sputter. Gather and let the master of stories take his bow. For there is no disputing that Ray Bradbury is a master storyteller, a prince of his art indeed. From such haunting ...
Advantages: Good indepth/thinking novels Disadvantages: Perhaps too much detail for some
I’m one of those people who tend to like quirky but mellow entertainment. My humour tends to be dry and I can find enjoyment in sad stories.
Personally I think this is because I’m actually rather upbeat and optimistic in life and so a sad story simply ...
Advantages: Great Mix of Story and Science Disadvantages: A tad too long?
In my opinion Moonseed is one of the best novels that Stephen Baxter has written. Usually he forgets the story and concentrates on the science too much but this time he has got that mix right. The scale of the story is also fantastic as he does no less t ...
