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Simon & Schuster, UK, 2001 |
Impakto
Simon & Schuster, UK, 2001
'If you were ever a fan of Roger Zelazny's classically
mythical and philosophically inclined Fantasies, or enjoyed Clive
Barker's freshly minted mythologies, Impakto is very probably your
sort of genre fiction … Yet there's also a great romantically epic
quality to the startling adventures of Raul, and the fast-moving
chase thrills are enacted on a huge scale that's rarely attempted in
contemporary SF/Fantasy …'
Starburst
'Calder's first book to be set squarely in the present day
(at least in its opening and closing chapters), Impakto benefits
from explicit allusions to cinematic, artistic, and literary
touchstones that until now in Calder's work have had to be veiled,
out of deference to the verisimilitude required by futuristic
narrators …'
Asimov's
'This is a stunning, mind-bending and genre-melding tale of
one man's birthright and its consequences for Earth, Heaven, Hell
and the entire multiverse. Not afraid to leap from the everyday and
the small-scale to an all-encompassing metaphysic, Impakto is
fantasy with a science-fictional colouring
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