Sleeps With Angels eBook Dave Hutchinson
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Dave Hutchinson is one of today’s finest science fiction writers. His latest novel, Europe in Autumn (2014), which has garnered praise from critics and readers alike, has been shortlisted for both the Arthur C Clarke Award and the BSFA Award. Sleeps With Angels is his first collection in more than a decade, featuring the author’s choice of his best short fiction during that time, including “The Incredible Exploding Man”, selected by Gardner Dozois for his Year’s Best Science Fiction in 2012, and a brand new story “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”, original to this collection.
“Hutchinson knows how to write dialogue, how to plot, how to pace, and best of all he writes characters – both main characters, and walk-on figures – that just lift off the page, alive, distinct, believable.” – Adam Roberts.
Contents
1.Introduction
2.The Fortunate Isles
3.Sugar Engines
4.Dalí’s Clocks
5.Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
6.All The News, All The Time, From Everywhere
7.The Incredible Exploding Man
8.About the Author
Sleeps With Angels eBook Dave Hutchinson
I laughed… quite a bit. There were a few stories I read with a smile on my face the entire time. This was not exactly what I expected from a collection of weird short stories. However, weird is as good an adjective as any to describe this collection.Each story is unique in its very own way and well written. Sometimes they end a bit too soon; but that's OK. I will put the authors other books and stories on my reading list!
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Sleeps With Angels eBook Dave Hutchinson Reviews
Sleeps with Angels by Dave Hutchinson was, indeed, a pleasure to read. Here are six refreshing, unique and fanciful stories. Call them science fiction or science fantasy they are written in the same general format though each story stands independently from the others. All of them drop the reader in the middle of the action with little or no explanation as to why the action is occurring then the story ends with no formal conclusion. Mr. Hutchinson trusts that the readers are intelligent enough to form their own ending. I particularly enjoyed the story behind the story that the author tacks on the end of each work explaining its evolution. This is great for budding writers. There are some fun collection of short stories where it is wise to “leave your brain at the door” before turning to the first page. In the case of Sleeps with Angels I would strongly advise against this tactic as you will need every bit of thought processing you can muster in order to comprehend the storyline. It’s well worth it.
4.5 stars
I love short fiction, so I couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Hutchinson’s work than this amazing collection. The six science fiction/fantasy short (but not very short) pieces compiled in this book are varied, highly entertaining, well-written, and brimming with humor and original ideas (what about a world run by elves in which newspapers find out about the news reading animals’ entrails). Although I enjoyed each and every story, my favorite one was “Dali’s Clocks”, a funny story about creativity. Without any doubt, this is one of the most enjoyable books I’ve read this year. Highly recommended for any science fiction/fantasy short fiction lover, and probably also for anyone who has read and enjoyed Hutchinson’s recent and praised novels.
The first thing I noticed about this six story collection is how many stories feature protagonists who have somehow reaped the benefits of social or physical apocalypse.
The heroine of “Sugar Engines” can work seeming miracles in a severely depopulated world. But this is a self-consciously “cosy catastrophe” where the weeds are under control, the sewer and water lines still work, and there’s electricity (if no internet). The miracles of Rae may have something to do with her dead husband’s research into nanotechnology, and the last surviving member of His Majesty’s Secret Service would like to know what really happened – because he has some hints that things are most definitely not what they seem.
The apocalypse of “Dali’s Clocks” is social (if very mellow in result). Most everyone in the world feels the compulsion to create something. And they all want the narrator, who is one of the rare ones who doesn’t suffer this compulsion, to critique their work.
The narrator of “The Incredible Exploding Man” is one of the few who can navigate who can navigate the dimensions sanely after a lab accident at a superconducting supercollider throws a group of humans out of our normal space. But he, and the rest of the world, about what will happen when the others figure out how to do the same. They are particularly concerned about the world’s greatest physicist, and not very nice person, figures out how to control his destructive powers.
It’s an elven apocalypse in “All the News, All the Time, From Everywhere”. In the middle of what seems some sort of European civil war, the elves of England reassert their power, ban almost all technology, kill a bunch of people, and reintroduce the efficacy of prophecy via animal sacrifice. The latter is how newspapers (about the only communication form still permitted) like the one the narrator works for get some of their news. This protagonist is privileged by having a contact in the elvish version of MI-5 working at crushing rebellion. He may have done – and forgotten – some favor he did for the elves in the past.
The supernatural also shows up in “The Fortunate Isles”, a murder mystery, with a nice detailed opening, in Ireland’s West Country in a rundown, poorer future of retirees, like the detective protagonist’s detective father, existing on the scraps of broken pensions.
The second thing is that Hutchinson uses a variety of English and European settings which are refreshing. We’ve come away from the days when Peter F. Hamilton’s publishers chided him for two much local detail for the Rutland, UK setting of his Greg Mandel series. The one exception to this rule is the “Sioux Crossing” mentioned in “The Incredible Exploding Man”. For some reason, Hutchinson put his supercollider in Iowa (it was once planned for Texas). I think he just wanted to have a Midwest tornado.
The third thing I noticed is that a couple of these could have been longer which Hutchinson acknowledges for “All the News, All the Time, From Everywhere”.
My favorite story, just because I favor mixtures of history, mystery, and science fiction (not to mention Roman history) was, “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. Its narrator, an archaeology student turned journalist, is dragged into helping an old professor examine the excavated villa of one Lucius Claudius Setibogius, a provincial of Roman Britain who did very well for himself by supplying some strange creatures for the Coliseum’s gladiatorial games. The story is original to this collection, and it rather put me in mind of Michael J. Flynn's Eifelheim.
I can’t guarantee I’ll read any more Hutchinson. But I won’t dismiss him.
[Review copy provided by publisher.]
Not answering the nonsense questions, and would say this is a mature person writing interestingly, where concerns of trigger words have no substance.
I've read his novels, and like what he's doing; would like to read more. They're of a tilted future in Britain-centered Europe, of perhaps unlikely but definitely intriguing kind. Nicely appreciated, and if you are not serious about the themes, still his is writing which will nicely take you out of your everyday life, with its calm yet unusual touch.
I laughed… quite a bit. There were a few stories I read with a smile on my face the entire time. This was not exactly what I expected from a collection of weird short stories. However, weird is as good an adjective as any to describe this collection.
Each story is unique in its very own way and well written. Sometimes they end a bit too soon; but that's OK. I will put the authors other books and stories on my reading list!
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