EDGE {novel}
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
5 Stars. A great read with Cthulu mythos flavour, By Andrew Collins. Edge is a great book. It’s got an epic mountain setting and brings strong characters with interesting back-stories together to face some very bad things. The sci-fi aspects are blended into everyday use with the exception of a technology that an unscrupulous and delightful maggot of a man is trying to get his hands on. People die. Some die much worse than others. There is gore but not slasher style and with a lean on genuine creeping horror. Something is bad on that mountain and I highly recommend you find out what! (source)
Review of Edge, by Andrew Boland. This is the first review that I have ever written and I would really like to write some highbrow piece discussing all of the intricacies of David’s work. Sadly I fear that my inability to control my excitement at having read this book is going to make the review sound more like an excited child writing about their favorite Power Ranger!
Edge was a fantastic book with an excellent storyline and captivatingly detailed characters that I couldn’t help loving…..and hating where appropriate! As other reviews have suggested about the plot of this book, it builds slowly and interestingly throughout. This however does not detract from the story in the slightest, as it is all too easy to get caught up in the lives and relationships of the characters involved, forgetting at times that there is or should really be a plot at all. When things start to happen however and your attention is drawn away from gaining fascinating insights into people in Zen Dow, Seattle et al, this book becomes even harder to put down, causing sleepy and hazy mornings as a result of not going to sleep at a sensible hour the night before.
This book scared the hell out of me. Not always in an immediate ‘scream’ sort of way, but perhaps more in a long term mental disturbance sort of way. To put it simply, I think I will worry every time I open a door or sit in a dark place, for the rest of my life!
David’s writing is such that gaining a vivid understanding and picture of what is being discussed is very easy, making the whole experience of reading any of his works a real pleasure. This is the second of David’s books that I have read and I have enjoyed them both enormously. I would suggest this book to anybody and can not say enough good things about it. So much so I would like to end with a very clichéd ‘It’s a real page turner’. Enjoy! A Boland.
I think your work is without doubt the best I’ve read in years. You’re this exciting cross between Ernest Hemingway, William Gibson, Richard Morgan and Stephen King. I think you should have all your books in the bestseller list. Why does the whole world not know about you?
The main characters are wonderfully described and you really get under their skin, by H Landsem (Trondheim, Norway). It’s a wonderful story with the typical unexpected turns. It’s not the usual pulpy Mythos story either, it’s subtle and mature affair. I can really recommend this book for everyone, especially Stephen King, Cthulhu and cyberpunk fans.
Email correspondance about EDGE:
>From: xxxxxx@xxxxxx.de
>Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 20:55:24 +0100
>Subject: Shortstory
>To: clovenfeet@hotmail.com
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>Hi David,
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>I nearly forgot, of course I also wrote a short Blog entry about your new Short Story: http://www.cthulhu.de/artikel/kostenlose-kuzgeschichte-aus-dem-yellow-dawn-universum/
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>I also started reading Edge and I like what I’ve read so far. Starts our interesting, some nice hints about strange things. Could it be, that you sympathize with Boarders more than Skiers? Tsk Tsk Tsk :-) I was an avid Skier but you could never get me onto one of these boards. Boarders are something to be overtaken or run over on the slopes because they are either too slow or sitting around, most often somewhere just behind a rise so you cannot see them when you come down at top speed :-)
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>Alex
DESCRIPTION:
EDGE { novel } In the near future, the inventor of a revolutionary new technology is close to burn out as he pushes his creation to the next level. Desperate for a break, with his personal life close to total atrophy, he grabs an opportunity to go snowboarding in New Zealand, thinking it will refresh his mind and spirit.
But a malign and alien force is oozing back into our reality, squirming across untold cosmic distances, crawling through foul dimensions of madness beyond our perception; sentient, older than humankind and growing strong as it emerges after centuries of absence.
Zen Dow snowboarding and ski resort, perched in the foothills of the volcanic mountain Ruapehu, is about to experience mind-shredding consequences as one of the Great Old Ones returns, radiating a malevolent and corruptive energy.
On the other side of the world, an unscrupulous concept scout is witness to a shocking murder; sensing an opportunity, he scrambles onto the trail of a new technology that has vanished from the corporate R&D labs, and the scientist in charge. Quickly out of his depth, it becomes a race to track down the missing components and the person responsible, before competing corporate agents capture and kill him.
David J Rodger’s trademark gut-wrenching rendering of an extreme reality, and relentless narrative pace, are here in palm-sweating abundance, delivered in a tense action-packed novel that blends corporate espionage, with a creeping, spine-chilling horror.
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David J. Rodger (born 1970 in Newcastle Upon Tyne) is a British science fiction & fantasy author and game designer best known for his novels set in a near-future world of corporate and political intrigue. So far he has published five novels; four that are set in the same world: God Seed; Dante’s Fool; Iron Man Project and Edge, and one, Dog Eat Dog, set within the post-apocalyptic world of Yellow Dawn.
