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Icarus Paperback – 1 October 2006

by Roger Levy (Author)

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Mankind has reached deep space. Separated from earth and each other by unimaginable reaches of space, forced to adapt to various diverse planetary environments the colonies have become isolated and inward looking, forgetting their pasts, losing touch with their humanity. Until a mysterious ship found locked in the deep rock by a mining team on a planet whose surface is drenched in lethal radiation sparks off a deadly conspiracy that threatens man wherever he is. After his grim dystopias set on a failing earth Roger Levy has spread his wings to give us a broad and exciting SF novel of exotic locales and mindblowing ideas without losing any of his trademark pyschological acuity and elegant style.

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Publisher : Gollancz; 1st edition (1 October 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 057507860X
ISBN-13 : 978-0575078604
Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.23 x 23.5 cm

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This is a good, propulsive tale that owes much to Philip K Dick's underground paranoia fable 'The Penultimate Truth' and is at times really sadistic (Levy is a dentist). - THE TELEGRAPH - Andrew McKie

''An impressively solid, hyper real novel about greed, corruption and violence, and surviving the near impossible. This book is not perfect - few novels are - but it reveals Levy as a man to watch (and buy). - SFX - Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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A hard SF epic from one of our most critically acclaimed authors.

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Muskrat

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Very pleasantly surprised by this. Well written and quite inventive

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Intriguing ideas and good storytelling

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This was my second Roger Levy book - the previous one was The Rig (which was written after Icarus and, in fact, triggered me to read Icarus). Both books share some similar motifs: child abuse, dominant father figure, authoritarianism, control of masses through religious or quasi-religious manipulations, and both are told in a similar fashion, i.e. they start with several, seemingly independent, stories that are told in tandem, that eventually confluent to form one grander plot. These similarities do not represent needless repetition, rather, they indicate that Levy has developed his own style and ideas, and I found both very engaging. In particular, Levy's inventive capacity is impressive when it comes to imagining new planets with unique environments and to depicting the measures humans adopt in order to inhabit them.

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