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Date: 13 April 2011, 12:10

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This was so totally plausible to me that I loved this story. Create a paradise where everyone can live happily ever after, and then about thirty mintues later it will spectacularly implode because there are humans in it. Bigotry, hatred, paranoria, greed, idiocy, intolerance, fear, jealousy, religious doctrine, political dissension are all part of the human condition and have been around since day one. So it makes complete sense that they'll be around in the future as well. Therefore in Asher's delightful story it is no surprise that there is a small problem with people killing each other and blowing things up in Paradise. This of course gives his protagonist, Ian Cormac, an Earth Central security agent, plenty of bad guys to contend with throughout the book and makes for a jolly good romp. In a really neat way there is a fascinating inversion in this story; the villains are complex, motivated, and terrifically drawn while the hero is emotionally quiesecent, damaged mentally by his 30 year link to an artificial intelligence. This works well because the novel is also about the sympathetic characters regaining their humanity despite their past traumatizations, while the true villains have theirs consumed in hellish fires of psychic destruction of their own doing. I love books with clever, nasty, but intelligent bad guys and this one definitely qualifies.
There is some FANTASTIC science fiction coming from Britain these days (and a relative dearth in the US) so if you are looking for good Sci-fi check out Richard Morgan, Peter F. Hamilton, Iain Banks, Alastair Reynolds, and now, but by no means least, Neal Asher. They're all frightfully good writers!

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