Of course, this means that I’ll remember that fact perfectly well the next time I have a hankering for some science fiction goodness instead of forgetting about it until it’s too late. Although, I don’t have to plan on catching up on anything before his next novel comes out. But then EBR would suffer, and I just can’t justify that.
I mean, yeah, I could just stop reading anything else altogether and go read all of his stuff that I haven’t been able to yet, and it would be awesome. If you’re not familiar with that term, you should likely go and read my review of THE PREFECT ( EBR Review), which was one of those Alastair Reynolds books that I just hadn’t gotten to when the release date for this sequel showed up in my email. Reynolds, and I’d likely be more interested in getting another in the Prefect Dreyfus series, I was still super excited to get another anything from him, as he’s easily one of my favorite science fiction authors these days. And while Revenger wasn’t necessarily my favorite book from Mr. I’ve never tried any of Rowling’s non-Potter books, but of the three YA books that Abercrombie gave us, I thought the first and third not quite as good as what I was used to getting from him, but the second, in my estimation, was possibly the best book he’s ever written. Sometimes they work other times, not so much. In this, I’m thinking Abercrombie’s Shattered Sea ( EBR Archive) or Rowling’s Casual Vacancy are decent examples of this jump in readership. Age ranges being groups like Children, Middle Grade, Young Adult, blah, blah, blah. It’s always an interesting ride, I think, when an author that typically writes for readers within a particular age range ventures outside their normal boundaries.
Will have to go back and read Chasm City (another whopper of a book that was published in 2001 and set in the Revelation Space universe) sometime later. Still, this is the second book in the main sequence dealing with the Inhibitors, and that was the book I went looking for this time around. I figured with a debut novel being published in 2000 and the second in the series weighing in at over 550 pages and being published in 2002, that it was obviously his sophomore novel. Then, as I’m preparing for this review, I come to find out that this book is in fact not his sophomore novel, but the third novel that he published.
Coming back to this author and reading first, Revelation Space (his debut), and then this one, has been an effort that was completely worthwhile. Seems like I’ve been a fan of his stuff for just about forever now. I’ve wondered for quite some time what a sophomore novel from Alastair Reynolds would read like.
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