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Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews

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Sibilant Fricative: Essays and Reviews

â€œAdam Roberts makes everything wonderful. If he wrote non-fiction about drying paint, I would still be the first in line to read it.â€ â€“ Jared Shurin of Pornokitsch.

An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. In Sibilant Fricative Adam considers a broad spectrum of speculative fiction, from fantasy to science fiction, from literature to films. The book opens with insightful consideration of Philip K Dickâ€™s oeuvre followed by Ridley Scottâ€™s Blade Runner, and closes with a volume-by-volume analysis of Robert Jordanâ€™s Wheel of Time opus. Along the way we stop off for a review by text among other amusements â€“ one thing the author never loses sight of is the need to entertain.

â€œTitan is one of the blandest pieces of fiction I have come across in four decades of reading novels. If the Campbell shortlist is a high-class curry restaurant of delicious, spicy and stimulating food, then Titan is a single slice of white bread and margarine on a white plate under the neon light of a truck driversâ€™ cafÃ©.â€ (on Titan by Ben Bova)

â€œLet me see if I can boil down Crossroads of Twilightâ€™s 700-pages for you. Drivel. There you go.â€ (on Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan)

Country	USA
Author	Adam Roberts
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Steel Quill Books
Manufacturer	Steel Quill Books
NumberOfPages	272
PublicationDate	2014-08-04
Publisher	Steel Quill Books
ReleaseDate	2014-08-04
Studio	Steel Quill Books

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