New Reviews of Pump Six, Wastelands, A Cruel Wind

John Joseph Adams | June 18th 2008 at 8:35 am

Over at Bibliophile Stalker, Charles Tan has a nice review of Pump Six by Paolo Bacigalupi. Here’s a snippet: “Bacigalupi’s stories pack a whallop while remaining compelling and accessible.” Tan gives the collection a 4/5 rating. With a “4″ being identified as “Highly recommended and is easily a pioneer of the genre.”

SciFiDimensions has a review of Wastelands, which they give an “A-” rating. Excerpt: “I would recommend this book with a caveat for those who are usually turned off by science fiction’s high themes - you will find some genuine grit in many of the stories. Wastelands is a book that will have something of interest for many different tastes.  For me, a guy who played Road Warrior-themed games as a kid, it was good to see that the apocalypse could take on so many unconventional guises.”

Rob Bedford has a review of A Cruel Wind by Glen Cook: “The suggestion is often made, but fans of Erikson’s Malazan series should check out this book, as well as Cook’s Black Company. Fans with an interest in the down-in-the trenches approach without so much veneer would do well to check out these books. Hell, fans of fantasy in general would do well to read these books. I enjoyed A Cruel Wind a great deal for many reasons - the evocation of the setting, the different approaches Cook utilized from book to book, and quite simply, the overall story itself in each volume and as a whole for the saga. I did think the pacing was slightly uneven in spots from book to book, but on the whole I liked A Cruel Wind quite a bit.”

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