Booklist: An exciting new novel from an exciting new voice in sf. About a thousand years from now, a heroic spaceship captain (he once saved an entire planet from destruction) is given a discouragingly less-than-spectacular assignment: he’s in charge of the demolition of an old space station in a remote star system. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland—he goes by Ida—finds himself ostracized by his fellow crew members, who frankly don’t believe his stories of planet-saving heroism, which aren’t supported by official Fleet records. Continue reading »
Mar 122014
NPR: Like a tightrope walker himself, Christopher deftly balances Hang Wire on multiple, crisscrossing threads of character and plot. As dizzying as it is, he never slips. Even when secrets swell to bursting with world-shaking promise, the story maintains a steady, nervy rhythm . . . A tightly wound, dynamic piece of genre-bending machinery.
Adam Christopher’s LA Trilogy, following his novella “Brisk Money,” a sci-fi/noir mashup trilogy set in an alternate 1960s Los Angeles and starring Raymond Electromatic, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer named Googol, inspired by Raymond Chandler’s parody of sci-fi/fantasy in a letter to his agent, to Paul Stevens at Tor, by Stacia Decker.
School Library Journal: Fans of The Testing will be thrilled with this new installment and will be anxiously waiting for the story’s conclusion. In this sequel, Cia is drawn deeper into the political machinations of Tosu City as she enters the University. She is accepted into the Government course of study, much to her disappointment. Now, joined by students from the City who did not have to endure the Testing, she must go through a hazing process that forces her to once again rely on her wits to survive. 