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Compelling . . . A literary thriller which simmers with energy, powering a bristling narrative (Independent )
Beautifully written and haunting vision (Literary Review )
An exhilarating ride that combines Bourne-style action and John le Carre-ish intrigue with a J. G. Ballard-inspired nightmare vision of the future (SFX magazine )
Fast paced, exciting and terrifying in equal measures . . . A vital and disturbing novel for our times (Aesthetica )
Beautifully written and haunting vision (Literary Review )
An exhilarating ride that combines Bourne-style action and John le Carre-ish intrigue with a J. G. Ballard-inspired nightmare vision of the future (SFX magazine )
Fast paced, exciting and terrifying in equal measures . . . A vital and disturbing novel for our times (Aesthetica )
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* A dramatic and original apocalyptic novel, out now in paperback
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Top. It's a film, but who would dare take on such a politically potent text? A highly ambitious novel blending massive political concepts, genres and hugely significant classics. It's both a parady and a logical evolution of heart of darkness-apocalypse now inhabiting them elegantly whilst using them to expound our present global reality. Let's take heed of Miller's warnings. Not so much distopia as near future reality. Miller's depictions are exquisite driving the reader forward with terrifying intensity. Despite 'the horror', there is effortless expression of natural beauty creating a chilling pathetic fallacy reminiscent of Hardy.
In short, this is a triumph of craft, content and form. This, in a second novel, beggars belief and makes me suspect a nom de plume.
I can't wait for the next one!
In short, this is a triumph of craft, content and form. This, in a second novel, beggars belief and makes me suspect a nom de plume.
I can't wait for the next one!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The scenario of a UK operative tracking down an ex-colleague who has gone messeanic is good (Heart of Darkness, Apocolypse Now anybody ?) and the picture of America affected by climate change and god fearing people (Tea Party, charismatic preachers) is well done
What I found distracting is the flash backs to his past interspersed with the current story as he journeys across America and the attempt to get this to explain his reluctance to carry out the mission.
The premise of a Western guy who go native has been well travelled before and its kinda obvious that the authorities might not like the 'love and peace' message being broadcast
In short the imagining of a USA traumatised by floods and general devastation was very well done - the story around that less so - having said that probably make a good film
What I found distracting is the flash backs to his past interspersed with the current story as he journeys across America and the attempt to get this to explain his reluctance to carry out the mission.
The premise of a Western guy who go native has been well travelled before and its kinda obvious that the authorities might not like the 'love and peace' message being broadcast
In short the imagining of a USA traumatised by floods and general devastation was very well done - the story around that less so - having said that probably make a good film
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
James Miller's debut, LOST BOYS, was an audacious thriller that fused Peter Pan with the War in Iraq to produce a chilling parable for our times. With SUNSHINE STATE he goes even further! Miller imagines a disturbing future of global warming and religious extremism. Laying waste to Florida with a series of apocalyptic hurricanes allows Miller to create `the storm zone' a lawless part of the `sunshine state' that lies outside control of a repressive, theocratic American government.
Add to this a British secret agent - Mark Burrows - sent to make contact with his old friend, now rogue agent - Charlie Ashe. The trouble for Burrows is that Ashe has reinvented himself as Kalat - a messianic, anarchic leader who seems to combine Kurtz in Conrad's `Heart of Darkness' with the politics of Sub-Comandante Marcos. The result is a thrilling, genre bending novel that will certainly appeal to fans of JG Ballard or Iain Banks. SUNSHINE STATE is a top notch second novel that confirms Miller as a serious talent.
Add to this a British secret agent - Mark Burrows - sent to make contact with his old friend, now rogue agent - Charlie Ashe. The trouble for Burrows is that Ashe has reinvented himself as Kalat - a messianic, anarchic leader who seems to combine Kurtz in Conrad's `Heart of Darkness' with the politics of Sub-Comandante Marcos. The result is a thrilling, genre bending novel that will certainly appeal to fans of JG Ballard or Iain Banks. SUNSHINE STATE is a top notch second novel that confirms Miller as a serious talent.
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Sunshine State is an extremely well written and cleverly crafted book. James Miller succeeds where many others have struggled in similar experiments of labour and love, and he has... Read more
Published 4 months ago by tomekd
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Essentially a spy thriller, the book imagines a post-climate-change world, vastly changed by the melting of polar ice and spiraling further and further from order and morality and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by C. Askew
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