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Clever world building. A pleasure to read. Good story telling and ideas a-plenty. Recommended for lovers of the Iain Banks universe and such.
Brilliant, fully immersive experience. I love the way you can fall into his narrative and it just takes you away through time and space. Great, gritty characters and a fascinating set up. In every book you learn a little more but it opens up many more questions. I hope there is a lot more to come in this series.
This is an extremely fascinating SF novel that does more for fans of SF in general than 200 of its ilk.What do I mean? It not only has a very cool Tomb Raider type story with a ton of alien ghosts (or ghosts in the machine) weird AI or virus type aliens, and 15 gifted worlds for humans to do as they please, but it also is a novel that is one huge, ongoing easter egg for FANS of SF. By no means is this a hard-to-follow novel if you don't get all the references. It just means you'll be awash in wo...
Very successful novel, as was its 2015 predecessor, “Something Coming Through”. This one is even better. More details about the strange Jackaroo universe; the first close look at the chatty !Cha aliens, more eidolon weirdness…. Loads of good stuff, including innumerable internal references to previous SF classics, a touch that will warm a long-time fan’s heart (mine anyway). Plus, exploding spaceships! Best SF novel of the year for me, I think.The Jackaroo are among the most enigmatic of sfnal a...
Most of the alien contact novels are about human beings looking into a mirror and about how we deal with something different. Into Everywhere is about humans looking into the abyss, into something that is totally alien and truly unknowable. And painting the unknowable is not a easy feat to pull of. It was a really pleasure to read McAuleay's latest and a privilege for my mind to be engage by it.
Wow! I expected this book (sequel to Something's coming through) to be a good book but McAuley has greatly surpassed my expectations. This is the work of a writer who is at the high point of his carreer and right now he is the best science fiction writer in the UK and not only.Usually the first contact stories put humanity in front of a mirror of itself but here McAuley puts humanity in front of the abyss.: in a universe really alien where humanity is just the later arrival and not a very import...
Into Everywhere (Paperback) by Paul McAuleyFollows Something Coming Through, but from a more distant timescale. You can, however, easily read this as a stand alone book. The action is fast paced, and the characters are driven. Sometimes they are driven by their own ambitions and sense of purpose, sometimes they are driven by other, more alien ghosts in the machine. The author does a wonderful job of continuing the universe he started in the first book, and asks some cogent questions along the wa...
The book follows much the same structure as its predecessor, ‘Something Coming Through’, covering two different time periods/protagonists in alternating chapters until both viewpoints unsurprisingly come together towards the end of the book.This sequel does the job that sorely needed to be done, which was to complete and deliver on the slightly lacklustre ending of the previous book and does this pretty well – but the job I think is now done. Please, please don’t make this a trilogy. More Jackar...
A brilliant follow up to the previous book of the series. A science fiction book which challenges you and makes you think. It is cleverly written, and has links to the previous novel. The cleverness of the novel is in it's characterisation. Tony and Lisa are damaged people, finding themselves in a situation not of their making. Guided and directed by outsiders they will eventually meet up. What I like are the clever references to Earth, and how brands(Starbucks) made it out to the new planets. L...
This a complex hardcore Sci-Fi story with lots of intrigue and twists and even though I must admit to being intimidated at first by the terminology and concepts which went over my head, I stuck with it and really enjoyed it after all.I really like the way two storylines converge in the end while at first seeming totally unconnected. The different factions all think they know what the aliens want but they are all wrong.This is a well-thought out, intelligent space-opera and I loved the world and
Heard about this author snd book on the Coode Street Podcast, a podcast that talks about sci fi. The story puts forward very interesting science and tech concepts. The human characters carry the story with humor and humanity, and the other non humsn characters grow into fantastical beings that kept me thinking after I put the book down. Imaginative, clever, entertaining
Really liked both books and the second kept me guessing right to the last pages. Even without revealing the true nature of the Jackeroo it was still a most satisfying novel and I look forward to the next novel, whatever that will be.
A wonderful sequel to "Something Coming Through" is one of the best SF books I've read in a long time.
Meanders and meanders, but even by the end this book never really gets to the point. A lot of potential, but disappointing execution.
