A GAME OF TWO SECOND HALVES
Over the last few months I’ve read Stephen Baxter’s Ark and Paul McAuley’s Gardens of the Sun – aside from being examples of work by British science fiction authors I really like, both books are also sequels to books I thought were excellent. Flood is, in my view, one of Baxter’s best and McAuley’s The Quiet War was one of my favourite novels of 2008). Both Ark and Gardens… conclude the stories begun in their earlier companions (I’m pretty sure there’s no scope for trilogies here) and I felt both of them were unnecessary. Read more »
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