![]() A page-burner of a book' LorenzoCarcaterra What emerges is a War of the Worlds against a world that can't lose. Long writes with unearthly force and vision. 'This flat-out, gears grinding, bumper-car ride into the pit s of hell is one majortakedown of a read. Long proves himself to beawonderful storyteller. ![]() 'Withoutquestion,the best thing I've read so far this year. ![]() If Kim Stanley Robinson'sMartian colonists had headed down instead of up, this is the world they would havefound 'JamesLovegrove 'Atourdeforce.Asubterranean realmsoexpertly realisedandcredible,we feel it hasexisted all along. ![]() 'Jeff Long has achieved something that has so far evaded both high-caste genre writers and literary colonisers: he has returned science fiction to its original vigourand – while maintaining all the headlon g readability we associat e wit h the for m –madeitaworthwhilemoraltoolagain.The Descent isSFforthe 2000s, from a writerwh o simply won't be told what h e can't do. ![]()
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