A year ago, if you had asked me if the world needed another retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, I would have said "sure, the same way it needs more ads for prepared meals and online therapy during podcasts."
But this book is a very different tale on the Arthurian Legends. The knights are flawed in fascinating ways that might just have you looking in the mirror. The classic battle of good against evil holds a great deal more nuance that many other versions while Grossman turns the love triangle that often sits as the center of these tales on its head.
This book looks pretty intimidating when it sits on your shelf, but it's well worth it.
Reading Gibson is like going home, but it's a home that's carefully designed to fascinate and frighten you in equal parts. His descriptions of scenes and settings are enough to keep me engrossed in his books; his carefully woven plots are the icing on the cake.
'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena
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THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE
Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is…
This graphic novel is heavy. That's not a pun. It's an acknowledgement that the title fits. The Weight deals with the heavy issues that many people would prefer to sweep under the rug.
Graphic novels hit different. A prose novel leaves it to you to imagine what a scene looks like, while a well-formed graphic tale sucks you right in. Mendes' spare art style and powerful scripting will make you feel and think and I promise you'll still be feeling this one days later.
A relative s depression-era diary inspires a young woman s journey to adulthood. Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly and much of Edie s young life is spent trying to escape this tyrant. 'Why doesn t she ever cry?...Gives me the creeps.' Of course, being a child means she lives a child s life she still has laughter-filled sleepovers and outdoor adventures with the local rat pack of kids still too young to work. But Edie s heart grows callous as her father…
The Martians failed in 1894. In 1915, humanity won't be so lucky.
It’s 1915, and the trenches of the Somme are already hell for German soldier Emil Zimmerman. But when the familiar, terrifying howl of a Martian Wanderer sounds across the battlefield, he knows the true war has just begun. The invaders have returned, adapted to Earth’s environment, and this time they have help.
Across the German lines, Emil discovers a treasonous conspiracy: a rogue General is hoarding alien weaponry, and negotiating a dark alliance with the enemy. Now, Emil must lead a mutiny and turn the enemy's own heat rays against them before Europe burns.
Meanwhile, in America, James Brogan, a brilliant engineer at Edison Laboratories, uncovers a silent invasion on his own soil. When transatlantic radios go dark and a massive explosion rocks Coney Island, James realizes German spies and Martian sympathizers are blinding the United States to the coming slaughter. Forced to step out from behind his workbench, James must expose a high-ranking traitor and restore the Planetary Warning System before the invasion reaches New York.
Twenty years ago, humanity only survived the first Martian invasion because Earth’s microbes decimated the invaders. Now, the Great War rages on, fueled by scavenged alien technology—fearsome heat rays and deadly canisters of Black Smoke—which the Martians now wield with ruthless efficiency.
From the burning ruins of Reims to the bustling streets of Manhattan, the Great War of the Worlds has begun.
