BOOKLIST Reviews Alastair Reynolds and Cherie Priest
A few quick hits from the current issue of Booklist.
On Cherie Priest’s hillbilly monster mash, Those Who Went Remain There Still, complete with Daniel Boone: “Priest spices the narrative with frequent flashbacks to Boone’s own beastly encounters during his trail-cutting days. Ultimately, the gore and the feathers are a bit overdone, though all for the sake of good, gratuitous fun.”
On Alastair Reynolds’ The Six Directions of Space: “Reynolds’ impressive new space opera is a novella about the Mongol Empire 999 years after the death of its founder… Set in a solidly built universe, full of excellent espionage and adventure, Six Directions of Space is a surprisingly small package to contain such a lot of entertainment.”