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Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures.

For ten years now mankind has lived in Otopia - our world, but our world changed. Ever since the Quantum Bomb our dimension and realms of faerie, demonia, of the elementals and of death have been intermingled. We live alongside creatures from our myths, dreams and nightmares.

Lila Black, half-robot, all attitude works for Otopia's secret service. In love with a half-elf, half-demon, and carrying the spirit of another elf inside her, her life is quite complicated enough already. But other complications, other loves, other fears, other deaths wait just around the next dimensional corner.

This is bright, fast moving and accessible SF that mixes in fantasy and a cool cult-lit sensibility to create a series that will appeal to all fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Peter Hamilton alike.

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Lila Black, half robot and all attitude, is going back to the future . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Justina Robson is the author of Keeping It Real, Selling Out, and Going Under (Books 1-3 of the Quantum Gravity series). Her first novel, Silver Screen, published in August 1999 in the UK and in 2005 by Pyr, was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the BSFA Award, and was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel, Mappa Mundi, together with Silver Screen, won the Amazon.co.uk Writer's Bursary in 2000 and was also short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2001. A third novel, Natural History, a far-future novel, placed second in the 2004 John W. Campbell Award, was short-listed for the Best Novel of 2003 in the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and was also nominated for the 2006 Philip K. Dick Award, receiving a special citation. A fourth novel, Living Next Door to the God of Love, was a finalist for the BSFA Award. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B004KZOMLY
Publisher : Gollancz (19 November 2009)
Language : English
File size : 959 KB
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Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 406 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1591027462

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Susan Stepney

fantastically imaginative and weird lands

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2016

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Cyborg agent Lila Black has been deep Under Faerie. She and her friends have returned damaged, destroyed, dead. And fifty years have passed in human time, so Lila has lost everything at home, too. Her demon husband Teazle has been framed for murder and gone missing while searching for clues to the whereabouts of her dead elf husband Zal. Her possessed dress is giving her a hard time. Then the Ghost Fleet turns up. It’s all up to Lila again.

This starts off rather slowly, with Lila frankly moping about everything; fair enough, she’s got plenty to mope about. But eventually she starts to do things, stir things up, take charge, and charge into danger. And we’re back into fantastically imaginative and weird lands, as Lila risks everything to rescue Zal from the Edge of Death.

The series started off leaving home to explore the elf, demon, and fae worlds made available by the quantum bomb. Here the story is beginning to circle back to consider that initial event: who or what set off the bomb, and why? It feels things are setting up for a grand denouement in the final book; I’m confident Robson is going to pull this off in ways I can’t even begin to imagine!

Plotinus

Read this as a teenager came back to it and it still holds up

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2019

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Stop wasting your precious time with this review and just go read the book already. Review needs more words you don't.

Iain J Leonard

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2014

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Love this book, and the entire series!

simon hyde

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2014

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Ed.F

Good but not as great as the rest of the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2009

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As a self professed "hard core" science fiction addict I've kept quiet about my enjoyment of this series from Justina Robson not through embarrassment or reserve just a view that others would be better reviewers. Of course that's not to say that this isn't just as hard core as stuff from Peter Hamilton or Alistair Reynolds but that the series has an overlay/spine of emotion, metaphor and whimsy which distinguishes it from many other works.

I've thoroughly enjoyed every book in the series; the world building, characterisation, plot and heart behind it are without compare and in her heroine, Lila Black, she has created one of the most interesting, compelling and basically sexy literary creations I've read in quite some time.

However I didn't enjoy this volume in the series quite as much as the others, as Lila's journey moves from the material world to those more and more radically different from "here'n'now" the narrative for me has lost its way somewhat. It's often said that the best books are those which deliver new insights to the reader upon each successive reading, and that was certainly true of the last volume, "Going Under", but for me the middle third of the book was a trifle too stuffed with metaphor and allusion to maintain the tight focus the previous books had.

In short this is a good volume in a great series; it's just not quite as good as those which came before it.

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