The Rapture Liz JensenThis "End of Days" tale is more fiction with science in it than classic science fiction. The focus is on the characters and the different ways in which they are broken and on the nature and impact of belief on how we see ourselves and others.Nevertheless, there is still a go...
The Rapture is thrilling, intelligent and very bleak. The characters seem realistic and the narrator's voice is convincing throughout. I felt compelled to read on and although it was possible to anticipate the ending, the strength of the prose meant that it didn't disappoint. The ending is a litt...
The opening line draws you in on the instant' I'm not most kids. I'm Louis Drax. Stuff happens to me that shouldn't happen, like going on a picnic where you drown 'Such an opening could, I suppose, head off in a number of different directions. Downwards to cliched cleverness, upwards to bizarre s...
A long time ago, my sister-in-law, Jenny, lent me Ark Baby, when I ran out of books while I was visiting my brother and her in Pittsburgh. “It’s funny,” she said.Parts of Ark Baby certainly are funny, and it is meant to be both a comic novel and a social commentary. Liz Jensen begins with the pre...
On the artificial island of Atlantica, politics has been replaced by consumerism, with the Libertycare computer running every aspect of life on the island. One of Atlantica's main sources of prosperity is its willingness to receive the world's garbage, no matter how toxic, and store it in the por...