Seize Your Copy A Spy In Europa Narrated By Alastair Reynolds Issued In Copy
listened to this in the car on the morning drive to work in a series of short stories.
As far as short stories go this is one of the very best ones I ever read / listened to, up there with some of the very poignant short stories by Robert A.
Heinlein. It's hard to describe the story without giving too much away, but it deals with a spy that bargained and things turned out quite differently as to what he had expected.
The intrigue goes well along for the story's length, definitely a recommended one for a quick SF fix.
A Spy in Europa was a story that had me curious, yet I feel I would have enjoyed it more if I understood the universe better.
There was a lot of information dumping to help me understand, but it threw me from the story a bit.
Nevertheless, this one did have me curious to see how it would come together, Although interesting, it didnt hook me in the way I had hoped,
All in all, not my favourite from the author, The tension against the Demarchists is building and a spy is sent to Europa to retrieve a thing from a sleeper agent.
But, as with sitelink Night Passage, things aren't quite as they seem,
I don't think this story is up to the same standards as the previous ones in that it just doesn't seem to work in my head.
Like, how did Cholok know where Vargovic's extraction point would be Cholok had no need to know what Vargovic's plans were after the operation especially considering the fact that no one was sure if Cholok was even trustworthy.
The Denizen made clear that Cholok was no longer working for Vargovic's handlers and they seem to make it clear that they weren't in on the plot to help the Denizen or were they
It just all ends in a muddle that could have been tidied up a lot better, me thinks.
Or maybe i'm missing something
Anyway, if you're reading the whole Revelation Space Universe saga then you got to read this one too, so you might as well get on with it and stop moaning.
Available in the collection, sitelink Galactic North,
And now straight into sitelinkWeather, This is an excellent short story, It is actionpacked, original and inescapably sinister, My only complaint was that some of the foreshadowing seemed a little like it was shoehorned in.
A bit more interesting than Glacial, but also forgettable, The only impressive thing here is Reynolds' accountance for the Maunder Minimum and predicting a shift in economic power to the outer system.
.I liked the gills Im Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now Im a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel.
I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the earlys, then eventually branched into novels.
I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well.
Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but Ive done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books.
I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland.
I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel.
I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the earlys, then eventually branched into novels.
I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well.
Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books.
I was born
in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland.
I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales.
In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill walking, birdwatching, horse riding, guitar and model making.
I also dabble with paints now and then, I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales.
We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement, sitelink.