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begin having an uncontrollable need to gather items and place them in certain locations, sometimes dismantling them and rebuilding in new forms,

I thought the premise sounded interesting and it starts off so, describing the different implications it has laws made to protect the Compelled, people taking advantage to steal goods by masquerading as Compelled, countries trying to suppress them but they come back stronger and in more numbers.


But after the initial engaging part, much of the rest of the story was about the lives of a few characters, and some of it was a little dull.
It also just ended suddenly to be continued in another book! Didn't realised this though it wasodd pages, Will have to check out the next book but I'd rate this maybestars, The illustrations were good too though on a black and white Kindle the effect is limited! Adam Roberts is the king of High Concept Science Fiction, His novels tend to be based on a single odd concept which he uses as a jumping off point to explore society, attitudes and people in sitelinkOn, a civilisation that lives in caves and on ledges on an apparently endless cliff, in sitelinkThe Snow a weird apocalypse caused by eternal snowfall that buries the entire surface of the Earth to hundreds of metres.




In The Compelled, the world has been gripped by "The Compulsion", where random individuals are overtaken by the irresistible urge to take seemingly arbitrary items and collect them in huge sculptures, illustrated at the beginning of each chapter with wonderfully geometric otherworldliness by Belgian graphic novelist sitelinkFrançois Schuiten.




There are as many theories as sculptures or machines that it is the work of demons or aliens or Gaia herself but as we join the story the world has largely come to terms with the Compelled and their actions, albeit that the world economy is in recession due to the disruption caused.
Police have learnt to deal with the nottheft and have procedures to differentiate from those who are simply crooks using it as an excuse, and some nations give licences to those who have

demonstrated they are true victims of the Compulsion.




Chapters alternate through a disparate section of society, all Compelled or Compelledadjacent, such as the social worker whose job it is to determine Compelled from Chancer someone demanding all the cash from a bank or to have sex with a certain movie star because they say they are "compelled to do so" seems eyerollingly common.




As so often with Roberts' work, what could be silly in other hands is turned, by the depth and deftness of his insights and quality of his writing, into something quite special and moving.




Roberts doesn't always nail the dismount, occasionally leaving things feeling unfinished, In this case that is literally situation as just as it seems we might be gaining some insight into what is really going on, he hits us with

"TO BE CONTINUED.
. . "


Personally, I hope he doesn't leave us hanging too long, as I bloody loved this book,


.I admit that I was interested in this novel a bit because of the recent silly viral phenomenon of the monoliths, However, the subject of compulsion is very interesting, although it is not totally new to me,

The story is good and Adam Roberts's writing makes it very suggestive, and François Schuiten's drawings are an excellent complement, I'm expecting to see if it develops equally well in the next novella, since I must warn that the novel ends in an absolute cliffhanger and at this moment, although I look forward to it, I do not see any sequel announced.
An unusual and gorgeously illustrated ebook that captures the feeling of a mystery show like Lost or Fringe in novella form, A global compulsion for people to build strange objects reaches its final phase but is is for good or Ill Well worth a look and the artwork and writing really ensures the book equals any visual attempt on tv

Full review sitelink runalongtheshelves. net/bl Fantastic idea to base a book on and great writing that hopefully continues!

The "to be continued" in the end had me thinking of that scene in The Expanse when the Belter dude decided to fly his ship through the Ring to impress his girl, unfortunately he didn't go "through".
. he went "stop" and so suddenly that he turned himself into a human mist, Okay, maybe the ending isn't that dramatic, but I was digging this really interesting book, that was gaining some of its own momentum, before the last page,

Fingers crossed as I now go look for the continuation, Lord help me if there isn't one, These authors came up with a fascinating idea for a sf/spec fiction book that I need resolving, A mysterious change has occurred in humanity, Nobody knows how, why or exactly when this change came about, but disparate, seemingly unconnected people have become afflicted with the uncontrollable desire to take objects and move them to other places, where the objects gather and begin to form increasingly alien, monolithic structures that appear to have vast technological implications.
Some of the objects are innocuous everyday thingslike a butter knife taken still greasy from a breakfast table or a dented cap popped off a bottle of beer, Others are far more complexlike the turbine of an experimental jet engine or the core of a mysterious weapon left over from the darkest days of WWII,

Where is the Compulsion coming from Andpossibly more importantlywhen the machines theyre building finally turn on, what are they going to do Haunting and vivid, My only complaint is that this is the first part half of the story and I didn't realize that when I started it, I hope the conclusion appears relatively soon, Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Adam Roberts bornis an academic, critic and novelist, He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A, R. R. R. Roberts, AR Roberts and Don Brine, He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies, He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics, He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, Adam Roberts has been nominated twice for the Arthur C, Clarke Award: in, for his debut novel, Salt, and in, for Gradisil, Librarian Note: There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name, sitelink See this thread for information, Adam Roberts bornis an academic, critic and novelist, He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A, R. R. R. Roberts, AR Roberts and Don Brine, He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies, He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics, He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, Adam Roberts has been nominated twice for the Arthur C, Clarke Award: in, for his debut novel, Salt, and in, for Gradisil, sitelink.