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  • Hardcover: 247 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (9 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575070277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575070271
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Space Noir..., 12 Sep 2007
By J. Bloss "jethrox1" (Wolverton, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nova Swing (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
Nova Swing manages to combine a number of genres - the film noir and sci-fi being the main elements. It follows the exploits of Vic Serotonin as he ventures into the forbidden zone where physics and reality are forever changing - he does this as a "tour operator" taking in the curious... and others. The novel contains many of the recurring elements of Harrison's works with beautifully described locations and complex characters. It also focuses in on many of the sub-characters - what do the events mean to them and what are they trying to achieve. If you like Harrison's work you will not be disappointed but I would recommend other novels by this author rather than coming to this novel first.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy sucessor to Light....., 9 April 2007
By Mr. A. J. Whiteway "andy-ru" (Londinium, uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nova Swing (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)
'Nova Swing' is M John Harrison's sequel to 2003's 'Light', a book that marked a welcome return to Science-Fiction. Harrison can be a polarising writer and 'Nova Swing' does nothing to change this.

The story is loosely related to 'Light' and concerns a cat and mouse game between detective and 'tour operator' Vic Serotonin. Serotonin risks all by routinely going into the 'event site', a place where normal laws of physics don't seem to apply and the risk to the person's mind seems huge.

Whereas 'Light' was arguably a character driven piece that wrapped three narratives into an intense conclusion, 'Nova Swing' allows its two main characters to fade into the background, instead choosing to explore the effects of the event site on the secondary characters in the book. Initially this move can seem confusing, but to me it enabled the book to build to a much richer and ambiguous conclusion than 'Light'. Harrison's prose (as always), is a wonder and the dark noir world will feel instantly familiar to those familiar with the Cyberpunk genre.

This is a book that does not offer up any easy answers, it makes you work for them. For that alone, I highly reccomend it.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars And how well the man writes. . ., 20 Dec 2007
By Petronius (SW England) - See all my reviews
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Genre novels are never considered for the Booker prize. And never mind that middle-class angst is as much a genre as crime or science/weird fiction. When challenged, the keepers of the provincial book-club flame murmur disparagingly that, of course, science fiction writers are, well, not that good, are they? Certainly not the kind of work to offer ladies-who-lunch in Tunbridge Wells, with whom the publishing industry is curiously obsessed. . .as it is with celebrity, surely the publishing equivalent of hedge funds. Trouble being that publishing is infested with marketeers convinced books are the same as detergent or baked beans; that you can turn anything into a 'brand' and that the market rules, okay.
Except this is, actually, piss-poor marketing. The best companies have always sought to innovate, to lead rather than follow. But nowadays all too many publishers play follow-my-leader, scared to develop the next big thing themselves, terrified they'll miss out when someone else does.
The point being that M John Harrison ought, by now, to be one of Britain's best known, most justly celebrated, authors. Not only because he deals with complex subjects - quantum mechanics, Gnosticism, humanity's future - but because the man writes like an angel, fallen or otherwise. Nova Swing is a follow up to 'Light', which was one of the most significant novels of any genre over the past twenty years. 'Swing' deals with the (un)reality of a quantum universe, combined with a film-noir plot. It is, like all Harrison's work, beautifully written and with that seemingly effortless economy and precision which marks the truly great writer. Buy this book. Read this book. Be enthralled.
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