What I found most interesting is that here is a romance (among other things) where you're actually rooting for the man and woman not to get together. What I found most interesting is that here is a romance (among other things) where you're actually rooting for the man and w Orwell thought the prose was purple, but it's just right for describing the fervent landscape and desperate stifled passions. Orwell thought the prose was purple, but it's just right for describing the fervent landscape and desperate stifled passions. The closest Wyndham gets to that is with the resentment between the Strorm brothers, Sophie's fate and then the rescue, which really distressed the SF Reviews reviewer (bless them, they wanted a jolly ending) but which Philip Womack recognized as the real stroke of genius.more It's a lot more hard-hitting than modern YA-flavoured post-apocalypse stories like Station Eleven but even so it seems to be missing the emotional component that would make it really gripping. The story itself is just an adventure yarn. It's influenced everything from Riddley Walker to Judge Dredd, and I'm not sure if Wyndham invented these tropes but he must certainly have been one of the first to bring them to a mainstream readership. The main characters have to hide their difference or be denounced, neutered and cast out into the wilderness. Nowadays we're familiar with this kind of post-apocalyptic setting: a cheerless, hardscrabble, frontier existence blighted by fanaticism, paranoia and religious bigotry. Nowadays we're familiar with this kind of post-apocalyptic setting: a cheerless, hardscrabble, frontier existence blighted by fanaticism, paran Nothing cosy about the catastrophe here, which makes it stand out from Wyndham's other most famous novels. Nothing cosy about the catastrophe here, which makes it stand out from Wyndham's other most famous novels. Best rediscovered in its original form, then.more In any case, it's impossible to imagine it making an effective movie.
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There's a movie version, which Honeycombe disowned after they rewrote his script. No spoilers here, so I'll just say that it is not really horror (Pan simply published it under the label "fiction") and the weirdest thing about the book (which I liked) is how the character who you might expect to be frightening actually comes across as sad and vulnerable. And if I had known of his writing, I doubt if I'd have predicted he'd work on the fringes of magic realism (or magical realism as it would have been called back then).
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I had no idea he also had a career as a novelist and radio & TV dramatist.
Gordon Honeycombe was best known to those of my generation as the fellow with a shiny bonce who read the news. Barbara Vine is a good example, writing books that could be described as crime - except that they don't belong in the crime genre wrapper because, to her, crime is just one very interesting way that people misbehave. Barbara Vine is a good example, writing books that could be described as crime - except that they don't It's always interesting when an author takes a story that in summary sounds like a genre piece but then treats it as entirely outside that genre. It's always interesting when an author takes a story that in summary sounds like a genre piece but then treats it as entirely outside that genre. I'm glad Garner is still writing, but read Boneland and Red Shift, not this.more But that isn't really gone into in any more detail than the supposed quantum theory, as it's just used as a tie-in to the fairy tale of the Glamoury Eye. Also - personal trivia - my dad had a lazy eye as a child, like the main character. Nice idea there that the publisher slightly messed up. It's a modern comics font, whereas you can see what Garner had in mind if you Google Knockout comics. Typography point: the font that is used for the Stonehenge Kit dialogue is wrong. It's got some nice ideas, some time-twistiness, but it didn't really feel any more profound than an episode of Doctor Who. "This is a book about quantum physics," says the review in The Guardian. Then it gets more chaotic, a bit like the way the story starts to disintegrate in the final act of a musical like Guys & Dolls or Anything Goes.
It feels quite familiar at first, like a book you've read before in fact I think I've even written it, at least twice ( The Forbidden Gate and Lord Fear's Domain, in the Knightmare series). A short story, really, and a slight one at that. It feels quite familiar at first, like a book you've read before in fact I think I've even written it, at least twice ( The Forbidden Gate and Lord Fear's Domain, in the Knightmare se It was all right. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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