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PS titles by Christopher Evans and Zoran Zivkovic reviewed in Booklist
Posted by Paul Raven on May 15th, 2008 at 7:51
Booklist is the magazine produced by the American Library Association, so we can assume that they know a thing or two about good books. We certainly think so, anyway - as they seem very taken with two recent PS Publishing titles in the reviews section of their current issue, a special edition devoted to science fiction and fantasy.
Here's what Keir Graff had to say about Christopher Evans' Omega:
Alternate histories positing unusual twists to World War II aren’t themselves unusual, but Evans’ particular scenario might still be unique [...] a fascinatingly imagined wartime London—in the twenty-first century.
In this reality, Hitler died in a plane crash, the Germans and the English are allies, and an endless, grinding conflict has reduced the world to a polluted, underpopulated place where technological advancement coexists with extreme deprivation—it’s Blade Runner meets the Blitz. [...] Evans handles his tricky premise with a sure hand; not for alternate-history fans only.
"Blade Runner meets the Blitz"! That's the sort of pull-quote a publisher (and an author) dreams of. Secure your copy of Omega by clicking through below:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Reviewer Ray Olson gave The Last Book by Zoran Zivkovic a starred review, which indicates "a work judged to be outstanding in its genre":
When one person dies in a bookshop, it’s sad; although it requires calling in the police, it’s nothing more, especially since the deceased was old. But when two further deaths occur in the same shop within two days, and the coroner can ascertain no cause of death in all three cases, suspicion seems justified. [...] Two more die; the possibilities that a killer inspired by Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose or powerful forces (governmental? corporate?) possessing secret, traceless poisons may be responsible are considered; the involvement of a secretive, apocalyptic cult is established; and a green volume entitled The Last Book contains or is the key to the mystery.
Serbian master fantasist Zivkovic has written what may be the most delicious mystery by a speculative-fiction specialist since Stanislaw Lem’s mind-boggling The Investigation (1974). Unlike Lem’s novel, it is also a discreet, witty love story.
Compared favourably with Stanislaw Lem? Literary accolades don't come much weightier than that. Order your copy by clicking on the links below:
- Signed, limited, slipcased hardcover - £50.00 ($100.00 approx.) 200 copies
- Hardcover - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.) 500 copies
Edit: turns out the review of The Last Book is available on the Booklist website after all!
