Editorial reviews

It's baffling why this appealingly distinctive offshoot (there are two volumes still to come) of the wildly popular Discworld yarns took so long to cross the Atlantic.

I could happily spend many more hours in Londinium with Bannon and Clare and their attendant cast, picking up hints, soaking up cultural differences, discovering connections between characters, watching them discover the depths of their own connections to one another.

I had no problem enjoying this story as a stand-alone, but I do believe that reading the preceding novel would have gone a long way towards steadying me in the unfamiliar gravity of Lord's world.

If you enjoy social science fiction that talks about large societal issues, complex characters, and gorgeously rendered cultures, The Galaxy Game is the book for you.

While reading The Peripheral is a sometimes-frustrating experience, it is worth struggling through for the ugly joy of digging your fingers deep into the tangle of flesh and wires.

I had a great time with this book, I loved the setting and the characters, and I can’t wait for the sequel.

The Martian has the pacing and action of a thriller - even though it's mainly driven by one man on an abandoned planet. It's highly entertaining and actually pretty funny at times.

The Three Body Problem is a fantastic book.

Orbs is post-apocalyptic alien invasion fun - big on entertainment and not too big on scientific jargon

Marshall’s story is not a tract, however. It is a novel worth reading by a woman who has the skill to write more.

War Dogs is simply too spare for its own good; it should be vociferous in its climax, not whispering.

The Peripheral is a poignant, alarming and exciting vision.

For those who’ve been pining for a human/tapeworm romance.

In Symbiont she upturns the entire table, throwing the greater game into such disarray that I for one am no longer sure I want to play.

Even if Gibson moves on entirely from this milieu, with this new novel he has produced another cogent, entertaining science fiction thriller that speaks to the great concerns of the present day.

The result is a book that offers a unique perspective on science fiction, but isn’t much fun to read.

A'The Silent History,’ by Horowitz, Derby, Moffett: reviews a dystopian epic with a mysterious, unstoppable global epidemic type of plot goes, “The Silent History” is no better or worse than most products of its ilk.

Gibson remains as unnervingly prophetic as ever, making his futures feel like they’re just around the corner, products of humankind’s inability to act when necessary, transforming a sci-fi whodunit into a work of fiction that feels both ahead of its time and frighteningly relevant to today’s world.

Like the best of Gibson's early, groundbreaking work, it offers up the same kind of chewy, tactile future that you can taste and smell and feel on your skin; that you believe, immediately, like some impossible documentary, because the thing that Gibson has always been best at is offering up futures haunted by the past.

Lock In is smart, interesting, entertaining, and highly recommended.