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This is no to assume that Powell ignores the trends of recent SF -- by inches it, especially during the scenes set in space. But nanoware and interstellar flight are present solely to serve a intention, when on the floor those with upgrades blend about seamlessly into the background, until they are looked with a stranger's eyes:
Off-loaded to the planet Silversands, crew member Avril Bradley is attacked in the presence of retired policeman Cale Christie, who smuggles her away to a secure area. But while Christie survives the aggression he is infected by a nanovirus which leaves him literally days to live, bare days to go out why Avril Bradley is a clone of the matron he once loved.
It's a length that allows the novel it's lean, understated neatness without compromising plot twists. Silversands is a worthwhile counting to any dedicated SF reader's library.
Silversands (Pendragon Press, April 2010, 160pp) is the long-awaited debut novel by Gareth L Powell, an of the rising stars of the British SF scene.
Silversands
This lovely understatement contrasts starkly with much contemporary SF, such as is published in Asimovs, which piles gaudy detail on detail that is really only there to create setting [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and is completely un-naturalistic. Powell's approximate is perhaps extra pragmatic, since personas should only notification what is strange to them rather than describing the familiar, as is the case with much SF.
Powell broke through in the January 2006 issue of Interzone with the heading article from his accumulation The Last Reef and has become a normal patron to that magazine, as well as to many recent British anthologies such as Conflicts, Future Bristol and Shine.
Around them the bar was filling with curious colonials and Avril was startled to see that many had space adaptions. A team to her left looked more android than human, while others sported synthetic skin or metal plates grafted from pate to toe.
Silversands is a short novel by only 50,000 words --half the length of maximum recent novels [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as Lavie Tidhar's The Bookman, but that is simply continuing distinct tradition of novels around that length, such as Charles L Harness' Flight Into Yesterday (expanded into The Paradox Men) and The Rose [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Fritz Leiber's The Big Time.
Gareth L Powell
Days to crack the machination around him, and to detect a class="dynamic">British SF
The colony earth of Silversands is the latest in a long line of isle based cultures in British SF, fleeing through Eric Brown's Meridian, Michael G. Coney's Arcadia, behind to Clarke's Thalassa, and maybe beyond. It would virtually be amazing, given Britain's isle history and that writers take their affect from their environment, yet it adds to the sense of a return to one arcadian idyll that runs throughout the begin of all these titles, only to be disrupted along the accidents that form their plots.
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Asimovs SF February 2010 Reviewed
When the starship Pathfinder emerges through a wormhole into the Tau Ceti system, an blast in the fuel tanks rips through the vessel, injuring one of the crew and stranding them in a planetary system settled sixty years earlier by the team of the Anastasia.
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