![]() "At first, Light proves more than a little daunting, serving up one protagonist who seems utterly reprehensible and a futuristic setting where both the language and the laws of physics seem to have been rewritten. ![]() (.) What's extraordinary is that Harrison's tale, for all its unflinching candor, succeeds in evoking the sense of wonder that science fiction readers look for in the best of the genre." - Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review "Harrison brings an up-to-date sensibility to the hoary conceits of science fiction." Light depicts its author as a wit (.), an awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist, and an SF thinker as dedicated to probing beneath surfaces as William Gibson is to describing how the world seems when reflected in them." - Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent. ![]() It is a work of - and about - the highest order." - Iain Banks, The Guardian Sentences flitter and flare into prominences, sudden foci of meaning in the drifts of sparely elegant prose (.) This is a novel of full-spectrum literary dominance, making the transition from the grainily commonplace now to a wild far future seem not just easy but natural, and connecting the minimal and the spectacular with grace and elegance.
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