My aim is to read all of Philip’s books in order, not all at once, but occasionally when i feel the urge to have my head done in a little bit. And this, my blog/review readers, is Philip’s very first.
While it’s only a little short story, it quite an entertaining one set in a dystopian future with a time machine screwing with people’s heads.
A great beginning to a great writer’s bibliography.
Available in The Collected Stories: Volume 1.
And so we finally come to the end of this rather enjoyable series.
It’s been pretty much full gas all the way and all the way through you really don’t get much of an idea who is on whose side and what their actual agendas really are until they suddenly reveal themselves and off we go again in a completely new direction. It’s certainly been an interesting roller coaster ride.
And what a lovely ending, Seth isn’t afraid to kill lots of people that we like along with the ones we don’t: which we always like, don’t we?
I’m certainly looking forward to reading more from Seth in the future. 10 out of 10.
Yet another good read in the Big Sigma series.
I did feel, however, that this one just fell a little short of the usual fun and shenanigans that we’re used to in this series, and the temporal stuff was a little mind bending at times (but then temporal stuff usually is). All in all, it felt like a bit of an inbetweeny while we wait for an update on Lex’s love life and racing career. Still a good read though, and we’ve now ended up with yet another version of Ma permanently in existence: which can’t be all bad.
Roll on the next episode.
We begin immediately after the events of Messiah Online with Cardinal, having declared the UK an android state, telling all humans to leave the country or die.
Our protagonists, Blake (The Postman) and Lola, are determined to stop him, but how? Has Cardinal become too powerful?
Once again, super good stuff and it’ll keep you reading until the end and, like me, you’ll go jumping straight into the last book in the tetralogy, Private Universe.
And so we continue where we left of with Spectrum Worlds, the pacing doesn’t slow down at all and The Postman still has no idea who to trust and, even as a reader with my god like view of things, i still have no idea who is being honest and what their real agendas are in these books: which is what makes them so good. Eventually things will come out in the wash and we’ll find out who is really pulling whose strings.
If you enjoyed the first book, you’ll enjoy this just as much.
But, between this and the last book in the series, there’s the penultimate book, Android State, which begins with all humans being told that they’ve got about 3 weeks to all get out of the United Kingdom or they’ll be killed on sight: should be fun.
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