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A nice combination of crime and sci-fi which entices you into this future world. I would love to know more about the form of travel between planets but the story ticks along at a decent pace with the promise of two more (already got) in the series.Ray Smillie
Arrakis. Paradise.Chasm City.Sometimes the real star of an SF novel is its setting – a fascinating world filled with characters, creatures and cultures that draw you in, and stay in your memory long after the story’s characters have faded.Eric Brown’s Bengal Station, the setting for Necropath is one such setting.Like the half-sunken Bangkok of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl, Brown’s Bengal Station is a fantastic future vision of a dystopian high-tech Asia, where ancient cultures, high tech,
In "Necropath" by Eric Brown our POV character is Jeff Vaughan a telepath working for a security company in Bengal Station, an interstellar port. His job is to detect illegal smuggling that is always going on.One of the biggest problems Vaughan must deal with is a potent new drug called Rhapsody which is quickly taking over the entire planet.As Vaughan's investigations begin to uncover the sinister nature of those distributing the drug he discovers the Church of the Adoration of the Chosen One,
My gut instinct told me to just put down the book about a chapter or two into this, but no no, I had to keep going, feeling bad that I'd started and cast aside too many books lately. This is definitely not worth the read, no matter how cool the title sounds. Also, I most certainly do not give a flying hoot what else happens on the Bengal Station to continue the "trilogy."It's hard to put into words why I didn't like the book, but I think it might just come down to the lack of finesse in the writ...
Didn't even finish it. Way too many simplistic plot contrivances, dull characters, a semi-undercurrent of pedophilia and just basically a boring book that didn't hold my interest.
[He] sensed their minds, a tangle of thoughts and memories that impinged upon his consciousness in waves of words and images, too weak and impressionistic at this distance to cause him distress.Right off the bat, in the first few pages of Necropath I came across some very nice descriptive passages that somehow seemed to encapsulate a lot of what I enjoy about Science Fiction and the sense of wonder it can evoke.To the west, over India, constellations rose in the indigo expanse of the hot night s...
Necropath was, while simplistic and unchallenging, a fun little detective thriller set in a believably grim, dystopian future. If you were a fan of Babylon-5 and its cynically world-weary security chief Garibaldi, you'd feel right at home digging for clues among the back-alleys and criminal lowlife of Bengal Station's impoverished lower decks.As much of the novel occurs in brothels and bars, with addicts and alcoholics mutually exploiting defenseless refugees in a Dickensian cycle of debt-slaver...
An interesting book. I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading and the graphic on the front of the book did me absolutely no favors either. See, there are very few chapters that actually focus on another world. The station is actually in India, and much of the book deals with that and focuses on that. The story also has a ton to do with religion and spiritual beliefs. Vaughn, the main character goes through a tremendous arch in the story but in the end, he loses something that makes hi...
Necropath is Eric Brown's new SF novel from Solaris Books, billed as his triumphant return to hard SF. I'm not sure how to take that, but regardless of the sub-genre of his last book (Kethani), Necropath is certainly triumphant and well worth investing your time in!Jeff Vaughan is a telepath working for a security company in Bengal Station, an interstellar port based near India and Thailand. A man with a dark and disturbing past, he thinks very little of his fellow humans due to his ability to r...
I had trouble rating this book. As a science fiction story, I give it a four. The world created was interesting and I found the characters compelling. As a mystery, it was about a two. At best. The plot was simplistic, and the b-plot just wasn't fleshed out enough to be believable.I did find the pigdin of the street kids overdone, to the point of making me uncomfortable. And the cover is highly misleading. It took about a third of the book to realize that Bengal station was on Earth, not a space...
I would call this book a mystery with a science fiction background. Jeff Vaughn is a telepath who works at Bengal Station, a spaceport in the Pacific Ocean. He is haunted by a tragedy in his past that is not revealed until the end of the book. He gets involved in a case involving a religious cult, smuggled drugs and murder. I really like the book, it was a good mystery with an interesting protagonist. I was definitely reminded of Blade Runner in the descriptions of the world.
It's just a great book. I believe that it is well written, well paced, and original.There have been other books since this one that kind of throw in some of thenoir detective element. I think that this one showed up earlier than most of those.I like the way that this series opens with a balanced subtlety and gradually let's the reader get a feel for this seemingly possible world of the future. The plotdefinitely keeps the reader guessing. Plenty of turns and surprises. Thanks Eric Brown!
Because I'm slightly obsessive, I researched a lot of different sites where people can write a review about books. I did this becuase the reviews here about Necropath were somewhat negative. I found that overall, most people at these other sites, Amazon, Chapters, etc, do not like this book much either. I am confused as to why this is. Necropath is a good book. It is not only good, it's close to great. What keeps it from being great are a few flaws here and there, but otherwise, Necropath has al...
Brown, Eric. Necropath. Bengal Station No. 1. Solaris, 2008.Necropath is a dark noir mystery with a grieving, drug-addicted telepathic detective. Detective Jeff Vaughan uses electronically enhanced telepathic powers to sniff out undocumented aliens being smuggled into Bengal Station on interstellar “void ships.” The strength of the novel is in the development of Vaughn’s relationship with two young women whom he sees as substitutes for the woman he lost. His mind reading ability makes him a lone...
Recent Reads: Necropath. Eric Brown returns to Bengal Station with a detective mystery. Who is smuggling children from an obscure colony world, and how does it tie in to a religious drug cult? Telepath Vaughn's past guilt drags him in; in more ways than one. Complications ensue.
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Eric Brown set himself a real challenge by writing a book with a main character who is (deliberately) nearly impenetrable. The main character's underlying personality and real motivations don't even start to emerge until the 2/3 mark, and missing events that define the character come out at the very climax of the book. All in all, this is a nice blend of the exotic and the mundane - Bengal Station is very much an Asian metropolis, but life in it is as cloistered and muted as life in any closed e...
Bit slow in the middle but the ending chapters I enjoyed. Good characters. Cool universe building. But something was missing, not sure what?
This was a book which I came across on one of the many ‘books you must read’ lists which Google throws up on my timeline. Normally I treat these with a massive amount of disdain but the cover appealed and I needed to pad out a gift list so…I can say that this was not a decision which I have regretted. It has been a long time since a book has been sufficiently engaging to get me to binge read it in a couple of hours; but this manages it. In truth Necropath follows some time honoured sci-fi tropes...