- Unknown Binding: 254 pages
- Publisher: Hart-Davis (1966)
- Language English
- ASIN: B001NN2KUQ
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great read. A little dated regarding the nuclear threat.
Like reading a John Wyndham novel. Scary and exciting - not just bloody!
Like reading a John Wyndham novel. Scary and exciting - not just bloody!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Furies is a book about wasps. Wasps - those ever-angry, machine-like insects that have no soul and no compassion. Armoured in black/yellow chitin, they show no mercy for the creatures they prey on. But a rolled-up newspaper usually sees them off...
Now imagine a rural England in the early 60's, literally cracked and broken after two super-sized H-Bombs were tested simultaneously by the USA and USSR, shattering the fabric of the world.
The phones are out, the lights are out, and flying low near the horizon, making a noise like a badly tuned helicopter, is a squadron of wasps. Wasps with a 2 meter wingspan and manibles like bolt-cutters. These are the Furies.
Only by escaping from the work-camps set up by these 7ft killing machines can the narrator and his (very well-drawn) friends hope to evade being killed with 3 inch diameter stings and keep humanity alive. Escaping to the caves and cains of the countryside, hope is never lost. But the unforgiving Furies are never far away.
The Furies is a fantastic read - well drawn characters, superb story-telling; and above all, a masterfully crafted black and chilling sense of fear and despair. Wasps are bad enough when they are only a centimeter big. Imagine the horror of a near-perfect, ruthless and instinct-driven thing like a wasp being scaled up to the size of man. Just thinking about it sends shivers up my spine.
Well worth the read, I'd recommend it to anyone who likes SF and/or horror.
0 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I played a game when I read this book, count how many times the author cleverly writes the protaganist into a tension building, seemingly unescapable situation....then says, 'somehow they got out' There is even a bit where they are in a mineshaft and they find a shotgun down ther! The mind boggles. To really give you a good idea of how wonky this book is, the Furies can supposedly smash through walls etc, yet the main man breaks into a garage, welds some iron bars onto the windows of his Ford Escort and he's away! so many inconsistencies in this book its laughable, I suggest it to death row inmates, things won't seem so bad after this little number.
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