- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Matador (29 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184876619X
- ISBN-13: 978-1848766198
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,534,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO THE A-MEN. This is hardboiled sci-fi action for adult speculative fiction readers, video game players and lovers of future noir literature and films. Four years have passed since the destruction of the Phoenix Tower and with it the infamous A-Men. The once-great Dead City is now a no-go zone; abandoned and forgotten. Living in this nightmarish underworld Jack is a twisted shadow of his former self, a lone survivor in a world of warring ganglords and their crazed disciples. Yet something is stirring in the sanctuary of the near-space starstations; a realisation that its governing sentience is dying and the one thing that can save civilisation fell to earth a long, long time ago. From unrelentingly visceral to outrageously comic, this is a harsh and poetic twenty-second century noir fable. Yet beneath the hardboiled action is a philosophical journey of one man's rebirth in a harsh and unforgiving world. It's The A-Men. Only harder, faster: darker. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE A-MEN "Wow... just wow!" "Fantastic, dark... it grips and doesn't let go. I've never read anything like this. A unique sci fi talent" "Achieves what Gibson can only hint at. Complex, fascinating characters, excellent plot, tense action sequences... all set in a thoroughly credible dystopian wonderland."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Trevillian takes no prisoners in this dark dark sequel to the A-Men, a harsh and pacy ride through a grim violent world, which - if you can stand the excitement ! - prepares you for the final instalment of this trilogy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jack, his mind wiped for the second time, has become a brutal figure in the Dead City aftermath. The A-men are scattered. But once again, there is a virtual world to be saved, along with it's creator, while trying to stay alive in the real one.
The sequel to The A-men spends more time in this virtual world, and is all the more interesting for that, the simplistic fairytale world distorted and warped into a nightmare, a game that can not be won by playing by the rules, reminiscent of the virtual giant in Ender's Game.
It takes a while to re-warm to Jack, he seems inhuman at the start, and though as the A-Men reform, he becomes more of his old self, (unreliable though that was!) it still makes parts of this sci-fi noir difficult to stomach.
And the feral gangs that inhabit Dead City - zombies, knights, and bronzed surfers - seem in some ways less real, less believable than the inhabitants of the virtual world of the Amen. It's certainly entertaining, but does a world with that much casual violence, while also providing tanks in which the body can be healed, (if you are lucky), actually hold up as self-consistant, especially as the collapse is now some 4 years in the past? How on earth did anyone survive this long!?
The sequel to The A-men spends more time in this virtual world, and is all the more interesting for that, the simplistic fairytale world distorted and warped into a nightmare, a game that can not be won by playing by the rules, reminiscent of the virtual giant in Ender's Game.
It takes a while to re-warm to Jack, he seems inhuman at the start, and though as the A-Men reform, he becomes more of his old self, (unreliable though that was!) it still makes parts of this sci-fi noir difficult to stomach.
And the feral gangs that inhabit Dead City - zombies, knights, and bronzed surfers - seem in some ways less real, less believable than the inhabitants of the virtual world of the Amen. It's certainly entertaining, but does a world with that much casual violence, while also providing tanks in which the body can be healed, (if you are lucky), actually hold up as self-consistant, especially as the collapse is now some 4 years in the past? How on earth did anyone survive this long!?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Got to hand it to Trevillian, he sure can write. This is a raw, visceral, ride with the novels protagonists through a dark future, punctuated with sex, violence and plenty of profanity. In the second A-men novel, he manages to build on mixing sci-fi and fantasy genres by bringing a touch of horror to the mix. All in all, a brilliantly imagined novel, building nicely on the first.
I did think part way through that this may just be a bridge to the third novel (as so many mid-trilogy tomes are) but it picks up pace and has a satisfying ending which leaves you hoping that Mr T is working on the third installment right now.
Great stuff.
I did think part way through that this may just be a bridge to the third novel (as so many mid-trilogy tomes are) but it picks up pace and has a satisfying ending which leaves you hoping that Mr T is working on the third installment right now.
Great stuff.
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