Series: Deepgate Codex
by Author Alan Campbell
Scar Night (2006)
Scottish author Alan Campbell - best known for his "involvement" in designing the popular game Grand Theft Auto - spent ten years, on and off, working on his debut novel Scar Night, the first book in the Deepgate Codex. For fans of "steampunk" fantasy writer China Mieville (Perdido Street Station...
Il Dio Delle Anime (2009)
I guess I'd give this 3.5 stars. I think the first half was great. But I HATE time travel, unless it's just used simply like to go back in time and solve a mystery. This book dove right into all the paradoxes and other goobley gook that makes time travel so annoying. So minus a star for that and...
Żelazny anioł (2009)
After the pretty awesomeness that was "Scar Night", Iron Angel is not as strong. The main problem is, the action no longer takes place in Deepgate--Campbell ditches one of the biggest strengths of the first novel. The new settings are many and they change rapidly--there's no setting to get invest...
Il Dio delle nebbie (2008)
4.5 StarsIron Angel by Alan Campbell is a case where sometimes too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. This book is the sequel to Scar Night, a novel that is a glorious steam punk mash filled with demons, angels, and clockwork machines. In Scar Night, we get treated to a truly amazing settin...