Outlaw: The Story ofClaudeDallas DuelofEagles: The MexicanandUSFightfortheAlamo THE DESCENTĬopyright © Jeff Long 1999 All rights reserved
A page-burner of a book' LorenzoCarcaterra What emerges is a War of the Worlds against a world that can't lose. Long writes with unearthly force and vision. 'This flat-out, gears grinding, bumper-car ride into the pit s of hell is one majortakedown of a read. Long proves himself to beawonderful storyteller. 'Withoutquestion,the best thing I've read so far this year. If Kim Stanley Robinson'sMartian colonists had headed down instead of up, this is the world they would havefound 'JamesLovegrove
'Atourdeforce.Asubterranean realmsoexpertly realisedandcredible,we feel it hasexisted all along. 'Jeff Long has achieved something that has so far evaded both high-caste genre writers and literary colonisers: he has returned science fiction to its original vigourand – while maintaining all the headlon g readability we associat e wit h the for m –madeitaworthwhilemoraltoolagain.The Descent isSFforthe 2000s, from a writerwh o simply won't be told what h e can't do.
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