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This was a nasty little book about horrible, self-important people and I enjoyed it.
Theological Engineering exam: Elder Gods rule the Universe, but now the stars are going out. What will They do now?Jim Grimsley ably takes on this Zelaznian line of inquiry in his third F/SF book, set in the same universe as Kirith Kirin (2000) and The Ordinary (2004), both also recommended. Grimsley is becoming something of an American Iain Banks: his literary novels have also been well-received. The Last Green Tree may be his best book yet: an unusually successful blend of high fantasy, carefu...
A dark fantasy story without clear main characters or story arc. Things just happend. No happy ending for anyone.
This book left me wishing I could remember the Ordinary better, but first it horrified me with child abuse and mass killings. The world is fascinating, but just too violent and creepy to be much fun.
If you have any love for Kirith Kirin DO NOT read this.
Sci-fi books usually don't grab and hold my attention much because they all seem the same. This book was a little different. And that's all I need ...
While I enjoyed the storyline of the book, I felt that the ending was too rushed. It reminded me of Hamlet, save there was no great discovery, no fatal flaw, everyone just died. Also at times I found the writing style to be disjointed and hard to understand. While I recognize that this was to represent the confusion of the characters, I felt that it distracted from the overall storyline.
Still searching for more about the sentient trees from Into Greenwood, Jim Grimsley's 2001 short story. While set on the same world, the trees again get short shrift. Enjoyed the story as it was excellent overall, but still waiting...Into Greenwood: "The water-surrounded forest of Greenwood is populated by sentient trees who have developed bizzare mutually symbiotic relationships with individual humans who genmod themselves to become almost as one with an individual tree."
This story had a lot of interesting ideas, but I did not feel that it quite came together. Set 3 centuries after The Ordinary, and mostly on a different planet, I'm not sure that the story really pulled together. In some ways it did, but in a lot of ways it felt like yet another pre-story to a much larger tale.I enjoyed it but wanted more out of it.
This was ... weird. Sort of a sequel? In the same universe as Kirith Kirin, but ... weird. I didn't really like it very much - frankly most of the story didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and the characters I remembered from the earlier books were either nowhere to be found or in storylines that didn't seem to really work with the main plot line. It was an odd book, I felt the whole time like I'd missed some critical step (and I know The Ordinary is in between - I read that, too, and it was...
Neat book. Had me from page one, never really let me go. Actually, having finished it, I'm not really sure what the title means. Though that's probably not important. Mr. Grimsley's writing is clear, ceaselessly interesting, unique and imaginative. The creativity of histories, creatures and 'magic' here remind me of the Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief. The Quantum Thief is wilder, more high wire stuff, but in this book it's just about as entertaining. This book is an unconventional, well written...
picking up 300 years after the cliffhanger ending of The Ordinary, this book follows a new set of characters as their technological society faces off against a dark god of biological force. this book answers many of the unresolved questions from it's predecessor, but has the same kind of "that's all?" cliffhanger ending.
I enjoyed this story but found it somewhat confusing at time.
*SPOILERS*I'm not hiding the review because this is about so much more than the plot.Like some other reviews have said, the world of "The Last Green Tree" can be quite creepy. Imagining a forest god eat someone's face can be a little nauseating for some but then again I've read worse. And by worse I mean the pedophilia in this very book.In one of Grimsley's previous books "Kirith Kirin" a 15-year-old boy named Jessex was in a relationship with 1000-year-old man. Yes you heard that right, 1000 ye...
A science fiction novel in which gods fight"," causing apocalyptic destruction and casualties among their human pawns. While there are many strong characters in this story"," few survive to the end.
