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"It's a clever book, and McAuley deals with his themes intelligently and with spark. even just as an entertaining story, this is a captivating read, depicting realistic action, unsettling events, complex characters and great pacing. A must read." (DREAMWATCH TOTAL SCI-FI )
"Alternate Americas have long been a fascination for Paul McAuley, and these USAs are often chillingly convincing." (Keith Brooke THE GUARDIAN )
"Alternate Americas have long been a fascination for Paul McAuley, and these USAs are often chillingly convincing." (Keith Brooke THE GUARDIAN )
Geoff Willmetts, SF CROWSNEST
" If you like to think as you read, you're going to love this book. I've always said that SF and the spy thriller are very much close bedfellows and "Cowboy Angels" is proving this. If you like to see both genres together, this book is a good place to start. "
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Unsurprisingly Brilliant,
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This review is from: Cowboy Angels (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
Britain's best short story writer makes an intricate, intelligent, fun and thought-provoking novel? No surprise there. I agree with another reviewer that this is solid 4-star science fiction, but that's in a world where 5 stars are reserved for the very best the genre has to offer, such as The Stars My Destination (S.F. Masterworks)and The Fifth Head of Cerberus (S.F. Masterworks). I rate Cowboy Angels with 5 stars because it's excellent, and it has been grossly under-rated in other reviews.
If you like science fiction, you will enjoy all of Paul McAuley's work. If you're new to Paul McAuley, his most brilliant novel, Fairyland, is easily 5-star by the aforementioned measure. Also, I'd recommend getting hold of some of his short fiction, because it truly is amazingly good. Free examples can be found on his website: http://www.omegacom.demon.co.uk. Decide for yourself, and if you like it as much as I do, I'd recommend keeping an eye out for him in Interzone. Judging from the broad spectrum of these reviews, people either love or hate this stuff. My advice is to give him a chance and decide for yourself. Start with Fairyland, which deservedly won the Arthur C. Clarke award. The Quiet War (Gollancz) is another great one, as is his latest novel, Gardens of the Sun (Gollancz). I hope you like them as much as I did.
2.0 out of 5 stars
A mushy novel,
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This review is from: Cowboy Angels (GollanczF.) (Kindle Edition)
A nice piece of world-building, based on the conceit that, if it was discovered in the 1960s that there are parallel worlds to be accessed, the CIA would be running dirty tricks operations in them. But that's close to all it is; characters both strongly archetypal and rather unmemorable, and a plot that, whilst not dissolving in the way that time-travel plots can, nonetheless seems to trip over its feet and not quite get to where it was going - inadequate sense of closure at the end.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Undermarked elsewhere,
By Spinoza "jack40" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cowboy Angels (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
Really this would rate a solid 4 stars - it is a highly readable SF techno-thriller that zaps along and plays with some interesting ideas about time travel and alternate realities- but I've given it 5 to balance out the other very harsh undermarked reviews.
It is not meant to be Stephen Baxter, and for whjat it is I found it hard to put down. A well written, taut and energetic SF thriller that builds very fluently from efficient actioner to mind bending SF. Yes, its characters are not the most three dimensional, but this was never going to be Proust, and most of them are meant to be tough guys, after all. A very enjoyable read.
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