{"id":3552,"date":"2012-03-13T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/03\/13\/books-received-31312-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:41:45","slug":"books-received-31312-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/03\/13\/books-received-31312-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 3\/13\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Angelmaker<\/span><\/a>
\nby Nick Harkaway
\nCover by Jason Booher<\/span><\/p>\n

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From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World<\/span><\/a>, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the forces of good square off against the forces of evil, and only an unassuming clockwork repairman and an octogenarian former superspy can save the world from total destruction.<\/p>\n

Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew \u201cTommy Gun\u201d Spork, he has turned his back on his family\u2019s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. That orderly existence is suddenly upended when Joe activates a particularly unusual clockwork mechanism. His client, Edie Banister, is more than the kindly old lady she appears to be\u2014she\u2019s a retired international secret agent. And the device? It\u2019s a 1950s doomsday machine. Having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the British government and a diabolical South Asian dictator who is also Edie\u2019s old arch-nemesis. On the upside, Joe\u2019s got a girl: a bold receptionist named Polly whose smarts, savvy and sex appeal may be just what he needs. With Joe\u2019s once-quiet world suddenly overrun by mad monks, psychopathic serial killers, scientific geniuses and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe, he realizes that the only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, help Edie complete a mission she abandoned years ago and pick up his father\u2019s old gun\u2026<\/p>\n

This looks fascinating. Sadly, won\u2019t be able to get to it until after I turn in The Apes of Wrath<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some great quotes about the book courtesy of Knopf\u2019s pr department.<\/p>\n

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Wired<\/span> raves, “ANGELMAKER is like a Quentin Tarantino movie written by Neil Gaiman: larger-than-life characters, dry British humor, a heavy dose of the weird, and a bit macabre; horrendous things wrapped up in gorgeous language.” <\/p>\n

And William Gibson himself highlighted the book as a current favorite in the New York Times<\/span>. \u201cYou are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens meets Mervyn Peake in a modern Mother London<\/span><\/a>. The very best sort of odd.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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The Master of Heathcrest Hall<\/span><\/a>
\nby Galen Beckett
\nCover by Phil Heffernan<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even as her husband is about to attain undreamed-of power, Ivy Quent fears for her family\u2019s safety. With war looming and turmoil sweeping the nation of Altania, Ivy finds the long-abandoned manor on the moors a temporary haven. But nowhere is really safe from the treachery that threatens all the Quents have risked to achieve. And an even greater peril is stirring deep within the countryside\u2019s beautiful green estates. As Ivy dares an alliance with a brilliant illusionist and a dangerous lord, she races to master her forbidden talents and unravel the terrible truth at the heart of her land\u2019s unrest\u2014even as a triumphant, inhuman darkness rises to claim Altania eternally for its own.<\/p>\n

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Body, Inc.<\/span><\/a>
\nby Alan Dean Foster
\nCover by Carl Galian<\/span><\/p>\n

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New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, Inc.<\/span>, he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation.<\/p>\n

In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled nanoscale implants\u2014a mystery that just may kill her. Whispr is a thief and murderer whose radical body modifications have left him so thin he is all but two-dimensional. Whispr has found a silver data-storage thread, a technology that will make him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He is also going mad with longing for Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Their quest to learn the secrets of the implant and the thread\u2014which may well be the same secret\u2014has led them to the South African Economic Combine, otherwise known as SAEC. Or, less respectfully, SICK. SICK, it seems, has the answers.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, SICK has also got Napun Mol\u00e9, a cold-blooded assassin whose genetic enhancements make him the equivalent of a small army. Mol\u00e9 has already missed one chance to kill Ingrid and Whispr and now he has followed them to South Africa. This time, he is not only going to succeed, he is going to make them suffer.<\/p>\n

RevSF contributing editor Alan J. Porter interviewed Foster<\/a> about The Human Blend<\/span><\/a>, the first volume of The Tipping Point Series.<\/span><\/p>\n

Books received 3\/13\/12<\/a> was originally published on The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway Cover by Jason Booher Promo copy: From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World, blistering gangster noir meets howling absurdist comedy as the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n