Alastair Reynolds – Pushing Ice
Although at 460 pages (for the hard cover edition) it can’t be called a small book, it feels much shorter, I haven’t read a book so voraciously in quite some time. In Pushing Ice, Alastair Reynolds weaves an astounding story, brought to life not only by fantastic settings and technology, but specially by the depth of the characters. It reminded me a bit of the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke, with a huge unknown “world” to be explored. While not so dark and “cool” like his Revelation Space novels, the overall effect (in terms of storytelling) is better, more direct.
Although it stands as an individual novel, Reynolds has left all the room in the universe (literally) to spin as many stories as he wants from it, with two immediately possible story lines (I’m not going to spoil them for you…). I hope he does return to this universe – I’m sure we’d all enjoy it. It could also be (in the right hands) great material for a TV show or a movie.
I love the book, and I think its a great storyline and would be a wonderful movie….In the right hands…..I really hope he does return to this universe!!!
One of my favorite books ever. Would love both to see it made into a movie and more books set in the same universe. Lots of threads he could pick up and make interesting books from.
Is that Sci-fi stuff ??? btw, you mispelled “although” right at the start, eheh