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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2012
I am a bit of a Kindle SF addict, and have had to wade through quite a lot of dross - the sort of thing that would have pleased your English teacher when you were 15 but now really deserves a "must try harder" C- for an aspiring professional writer.
Against this backdrop "Into The Black" was a pleasant surprise. Okay, Evan Currie is not going to have to travel to Oslo to pick up a prize any time soon, but he manages to tell a fast-paced story with (mostly) three-dimensional characters and crams in enough technology back-story to make things credible without making the reader feel he's picked up a physics textbook.
Perhaps from a European reader's perspective it's a little bit North American, but if that were a serious complaint I would never read any SF thrillers and would have missed out on a lot of great ones.
In short, this is an entertaining space adventure that keeps you in suspense but makes you want to know what happens next. There's nothing in it that makes you say, "that's impossible", and although some of the scenarios and characters occasionally feel borrowed from elsewhere, perhaps that's just because they are well written.
I have given this one the ultimate accolade - I have pre-ordered the sequel at a solid-book price.
Against this backdrop "Into The Black" was a pleasant surprise. Okay, Evan Currie is not going to have to travel to Oslo to pick up a prize any time soon, but he manages to tell a fast-paced story with (mostly) three-dimensional characters and crams in enough technology back-story to make things credible without making the reader feel he's picked up a physics textbook.
Perhaps from a European reader's perspective it's a little bit North American, but if that were a serious complaint I would never read any SF thrillers and would have missed out on a lot of great ones.
In short, this is an entertaining space adventure that keeps you in suspense but makes you want to know what happens next. There's nothing in it that makes you say, "that's impossible", and although some of the scenarios and characters occasionally feel borrowed from elsewhere, perhaps that's just because they are well written.
I have given this one the ultimate accolade - I have pre-ordered the sequel at a solid-book price.
