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Mirrorman (Virgin Worlds) (Paperback)
by Trevor Hoyle (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 470 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Worlds (18 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753503859
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753503850
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,440,674 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Frank Kersh is a convicted killer on death row. When the Messengers offer him eternal life he's not going to turn them down. To earn immortality, he must commit one more crime, a final murder. But how can he kill a person who has incarnations across the centuries?

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A dark erotic fantasy ...
One reviewer complained that MIRRORMAN wasn't actually science fiction at all, because it has elements of horror. Another said it wasn't strictly fantasy either, because parts of it are set in the 18th century. Another thought the erotic elements were rather disturbing.

All these viewpoints are right. It isn't strictly SF, fantasy, horror or historical, but a combination of them all. I like to read novels that stray across genres, so I thought I'd write one myself. If you have similar tastes, maybe you'll enjoy MIRRORMAN too. If you do, write and tell me. -- Trevor Hoyle

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Unpleasant drivel, 4 Oct 1999
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If I could rate this one nought crowns, I would. It is fair to say that the book has a momentum that persuades you to keep reading. It is also fair to say it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. I recently read a very different book "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett which has some sex and violence which I disliked at the time of reading. However, by the time I finished that book it did make sense in terms of the telling of a (basically accurate) historical account. "Mirrorman" has no such merit - or indeed any at all. What I find worst is that the writer appears to be an intelligent man deliberately writing crap. As for characterisation, I could find none. I have always had a horror of throwing books in the dustbin, but I might make an exception for this one...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hoyle has produced an extraordianry novel, 19 Nov 1999
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Frank Kersh is a homicidal maniac, but a maniac with a chance to survive the scorching of the electric chair. A fantastic cult, known as the Messengers, determined to corrupt time and steer society-through-the-ages down a path of fear and oppression, offers Kersh the chance to live his life in a fragment of his existence: living for all eternity in his last heartbeat. What must Kersh do to be awarded such a fantastic gift? Kill a family - the Cawdors - erase them and their forebears throughout history. Kirsch, the chosen one, the anti-Christ, must destroy the Cawdors because they stand as a Bulwark against all that his masters, the Messengers, strive for. Only the gift of the Cawdor family, a gift of balance and stasis, can stop them in their quest through time to rule the Earth. This is a fantastic, disturbing and challenging book. This is not a novel for the faint of heart nor for those more inclined to the usual banality of production-line science fiction and fantasy. Hoyle's book is long, complex and chilling, but when one reaches the last page it is obvious that these events were, to Hoyle, very real indeed. In an age of cultist obsessions and extremism, such as those of David Koresh, Hoyle has produced a seminal work that shines a light on the darker corners of human society at the end of the second millennium. Put away your childish works and buy a good and worthy one.

Austen Atkinson Hampshire, England

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