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Very confusing cyber punk space opera. I really had no clue what was happening.
Jessup has his own style of writing that is unique in all the books I’ve read. At times it’s punchy, direct, and almost Spartan in its usage, at other times it flows with the symmetry of poetry. As if his concept of linguistic viruses wasn’t enough, he uses language to great effect to heighten the more surreal aspects of his world.Think of Close Your Eyes as sci-fi with a purpose. It would be easy to say the ship’s AI is reminiscent of HAL from 2001 or the linguistic virus as similar to Stephens...
Omg this is an awesome book! Or two novellas, actually. If you are a fan of weird, bizarre and sci fi, this is the book for you. Such imaginative situations and characters, I`ve rarely had the pleasure to be involved with. There is horrible suffering and beautiful bliss. The ending made me a bit teary eyed. Definite two thumbs up for this one. Anxiously awaiting more from this author.
This certainly starts with a bang; to be precise a supernova, in which the star in its death throes somehow impregnates a woman called Ekhi, apparently by means of light. Thereafter she is forced to pilot her own ship after shutting down its AI heart since it goes insane due to entropic breakdown of its programmes. She is found floating, naked, in the ship’s control centre - throughout the book these are named egia - by Mari, Hodei and Sugoi, scavengers from The Good Ship Lollipop. At this early...
I received a copy to review. More art than novel. Creative SF writing set in the far distant future in which language is an invading virus, and dolls are avatars. It was a difficult book to review, as on the one hand the writing is very good and creative (5 stars), but in terms of personal reading preferences, this was a difficult book (3 stars), especially the second half (which is a sequel novel to the first half of the book). I would guess that readers of SF anime graphic novels, such as Blam...
*NOTE* I was given a free copy of this ebook by the publisher for an honest reviewThis was not an easy book to read. The first half, 'Open your Eyes' started oddly, but I fell into the story and was interested in what was happening. Not many books would start with "Her lover was a supernova." and actually mean a supernova for real (I think). It was all a bit confusing. A brief synopsis - a woman is found by a diverse group of humanoid-ish space explorers as they are travelling in search of somet...
You have never read anything like this! Victorian-steampunk-body horror-gothic-space opera. Weird as shit and brilliant.
Review forthcoming
Close Your Eyes is more than just weird scifi. It's a bit space opera. It's about family, the one you're born into and the one you make. It's about all the pitfalls of family. But most of all...it's about love.Go in to reading this book as if you were simply a fly on the wall, as an observer. Do not try to solve anything. Do not try to figure anything out. It will all come to you.And don't try to escape uninfected. It's impossible. From page one, the sakre is inside you. Don't try to hide from i...
This is a science fiction novel in Gothic horror style featuring Victorian-steampunkish human/machine hybrids. It also probably qualifies as fitting into the "bizarro" genre. Initially, I thought Close Your Eyes had an appealing grim, poetic atmosphere. But as the book dragged on, it far overstayed its welcome. The writing style went from atmospheric embellishment to a goth teen writing bad poetry in his bedroom while cutting himself. Close Your Eyes felt like wading through molasses of words by...
Talking bears. Really weird.
this book had a LOT of wasted potential... so many interesting concepts, but none of them executed satisfactorily. book 2 was a vast improvement from book 1 – you can tell it was written years later and the author had developed his own style much further – but i was still left disappointed by the end.
