This book was a very engaging and enjoyable read. The world of Nulapeiron is still an interesting amalgam of scifi and medieval tropes (due to cultural stratification between lords and commoners). Plot-wise, the battle against the Oracles has been completed to partial success. Tom, who succeeds i...
I'd never read John Meaney until he was guest of honour at Satellite 4 (the 2014 Eastercon), where I attended a few panels/talks/interview that he did and was very impressed with the man. I found several of his books, including this one (which he very kindly signed for me in the bar, later), che...
Grey shadows—attackers!—and he hurled the black sheet off his body, kicked out, stabbed with his fingertips— No-one there. Sylvana…Fate, had he spoken aloud? In one corner, a glowing tricon slowly revolved. Shaded apologetic green, it nevertheless r...
It had made a campsite of sorts, with shining objects that looked crafted. Nothing in his memory indicated that his ancestors had ever come across such a thing. And it was alone. Could it be an outcast, a casteless one like himself? Casteless. So it was time to confront that thought. He had ru...
There was a glimpse of two short figures carrying something gray-wrapped and bulky—Cortindo's body—and then the dwarves were out onto the roof, and Donal was cursing.Even as he redoubled his pace, sprinting up the last thirty or so steps, he could hear not just the wind from up above but also a d...
Her experimental data was promising: a neural deepscan showing activity of the spatiotemporal grid in the subject’s entorhinal cortex, correlated with eye-muscle motor signals, precuneus activation and other distributed neural resonance. In realspace humans, mental images appear to have a real lo...
It was an hour before dawnshift. High above the boulevard, attached to the baroque, ornate panels of the concave ceiling, bronze-and-platinum glowclusters shone dimly, as if sleeping. Down below, the boulevard’s floor was of polished butter-yellow metal. At this hour, only a few servitors walked ...