WTF!!
Saturday, I was in a local bookstore to buy a book for a friend's birthday, and walking past the Fantasy department (as I always do), I saw The Devil Delivered amidst Steven Erikson's books. His latest novella! This one was of the original print: signed and numbered by the author. Wheehee!
The Devil Delivered is a SF story that takes place in our world, about 15-20 years from now, when lots of areas of the world have been made uninhabitable by ozone holes and nukes. Themes are globalisation, extinction, and the rigidness of the human mind.
I thought this was one of the best books on the subject I've ever read. Loved every bit of it, even though the English was very hard; much harder than the other stuff I've read of Steven Erikson(MBotF, Blood Follows, the Healthy Dead). That was partly due to the fact I'm not a native speaker.
Besides, I didn't know anything about (Canadian) Indians, with whom a large part of this book deals, so that added to the confusion. Add to that Erikson's style of leaving the reader in the dark about lots of key things, and you've got a confusing read. But it held up, IMHO.
There were some übercool sentences, that are bound to become sig quotes (Logic is a circle pretending to be a straight line), and lots of good points being made about globalisation and the way our civilisation works. Also, most of the story is utterly believable (not everything, but hey...it's SF/fantasy).
P.S. I'm interested in the average letter per word count of this book, in comparison with the all-book-average. I think it may be almost 2 times as high... :-)
The Devil Delivered is a SF story that takes place in our world, about 15-20 years from now, when lots of areas of the world have been made uninhabitable by ozone holes and nukes. Themes are globalisation, extinction, and the rigidness of the human mind.
I thought this was one of the best books on the subject I've ever read. Loved every bit of it, even though the English was very hard; much harder than the other stuff I've read of Steven Erikson(MBotF, Blood Follows, the Healthy Dead). That was partly due to the fact I'm not a native speaker.
Besides, I didn't know anything about (Canadian) Indians, with whom a large part of this book deals, so that added to the confusion. Add to that Erikson's style of leaving the reader in the dark about lots of key things, and you've got a confusing read. But it held up, IMHO.
There were some übercool sentences, that are bound to become sig quotes (Logic is a circle pretending to be a straight line), and lots of good points being made about globalisation and the way our civilisation works. Also, most of the story is utterly believable (not everything, but hey...it's SF/fantasy).
P.S. I'm interested in the average letter per word count of this book, in comparison with the all-book-average. I think it may be almost 2 times as high... :-)