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Cowboy Angels (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

by Paul McAuley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (20 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575079355
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575079359
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 396,319 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Product Description

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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Review

"A thriller that manages to combine high concept SF with cracking pace. More twists, turns and surprises than you could possibly hope for." (Steve Robinson DEATHRAY 2007 PREVIEW )

"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. " (Geoff Willmetts SF CROWSNEST )

"Hard-hitting and brutal, the novel is a gripping, page- turning thriller that is also a timely reminder of the dangers of imperialism." (Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN )

"A brainy, inventive, gung-ho techno thriller. Paul McAuley is an excellent writer, though his liberal outrage at what he sees as American imperialism is a bit predictable. I preferred his inventive Fairyland, just reissued in paperback in the Gollancz Future Classics series, but this one is highly recommended." (Andrew McKie THE TELEGRAPH )

"A spy-fi yarn that feels like Ian Fleming writing a 'Sliders' episode. Will give readers a visceral Boy's Own kick." (Dave Bradley SFX )

"McAuley provokes spycraft convincingly and proceedings eventually become extremely complex. A very professionally crafted adventure." (Gary Dalkin DEATHRAY )

"Cowboy Angels is nothing if not compelling. A relatively gung-ho thriller." (Jon Jordan EDGE )

"Breakneck pacing and narrative fluency - he juggles plot twists here to a quite awe-inspiring extent." (Roz Kaveney TIME OUT ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Kept waiting on something happening, 20 Jan 2008
By bob (uk) - See all my reviews
The premise for this book is quite familiar. Like Kieth Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium, a version of the US has accessed it's alternate timestreams and intervened to create a trans universal pax-Americana. That's the high concept. The story is meant to be about the hunt for a rogue agent, by another rogue agent, who is going to use a weapon of mass destruciton to change history.

However the story just dragged and dragged. There was a potential for great descriptions of the alternatives. A brief taste was given in a picture of Manhattan covered in a giant glass solid pyramid, which is the seat of the dominant US. But the rest just washed over me and I really could not maintain a lot of interest. Characters - not really likeable. Story a bit thin. Ending totally pointless.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Undermarked elsewhere, 25 Oct 2009
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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4.0 out of 5 stars A newish slant on the intergalactic CIA, 17 Jun 2009
By Ange (North Yorks) - See all my reviews
A well written intelligent thriller, the protagonist is rather under characterised but Tom Waverley who carries the plot is horribly convincing
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