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For Heaven's Eyes Only, Simon R. Green
Against All Enemies, Tom Clancy and Peter Telep
After Hours: Tales from Ur-Bar, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray
The Parasite, Neal Asher
IF you've been reading Green's series about the Drood family, their magic armor, and Eddie's semi-Bond-pastiche adventures, well... this is another one. If you haven't been reading it, there's not much reason to start. It's the fluffiest kind of lightweight fantasy adventurism.
Tom Clancy has finally done it: he's hired a ghost-writer who can't do Clancy's style at all. At all. I put down the book after 130 pages and haven't picked it up yet. It's not even competent war-porn. Avoid, especially if you liked _The Hunt for Red October_ and even if you liked _Rainbow Six_.
ON the other hand, a cabal of talented, mostly newer (last ten years) authors contributed stories to _After Hours_, and they were almost all quite successful. The conceit is that there is a bar, much like Cowboy Feng's place, which is run by Gilgamesh as the result of a curse explained in the opening story. Stuff happens through time and space, mostly interesting, mostly entertaining.
And finally, Neal Asher released an early trunk novel in which you can see quite a few of the ideas, gizmos and tropes that he returned to in his subsequent novels. Bloody and violent and full of technological fetishism in a space-opera universe; if you enjoy his later books, this is not noticeably inferior.
Against All Enemies, Tom Clancy and Peter Telep
After Hours: Tales from Ur-Bar, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray
The Parasite, Neal Asher
IF you've been reading Green's series about the Drood family, their magic armor, and Eddie's semi-Bond-pastiche adventures, well... this is another one. If you haven't been reading it, there's not much reason to start. It's the fluffiest kind of lightweight fantasy adventurism.
Tom Clancy has finally done it: he's hired a ghost-writer who can't do Clancy's style at all. At all. I put down the book after 130 pages and haven't picked it up yet. It's not even competent war-porn. Avoid, especially if you liked _The Hunt for Red October_ and even if you liked _Rainbow Six_.
ON the other hand, a cabal of talented, mostly newer (last ten years) authors contributed stories to _After Hours_, and they were almost all quite successful. The conceit is that there is a bar, much like Cowboy Feng's place, which is run by Gilgamesh as the result of a curse explained in the opening story. Stuff happens through time and space, mostly interesting, mostly entertaining.
And finally, Neal Asher released an early trunk novel in which you can see quite a few of the ideas, gizmos and tropes that he returned to in his subsequent novels. Bloody and violent and full of technological fetishism in a space-opera universe; if you enjoy his later books, this is not noticeably inferior.
