Friday, October 3, 2014

Belfast Noir, Adrian McKinty and Stuart Neville, editors at Escape Into Life

Just a quick post to say that my review is up of the Akashic Books anthology Belfast Noir over at Escape Into Life. Those of you familiar with the Northern Irish crime fiction scene will find some familiar names here--Brian McGilloway, Gerard Brennan, Garbhan Downey, to name but a few. You might be a bit more surprised to find Lee Child has a tale here, and even more surprised that a science fiction writer like Ian McDonald has a bit here. Don't worry, it's all legit, folks.


This is a standout collection, which I've described a bit more fully, but by no means comprehensively HERE.
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6 comments:

  1. KathleenOctober 4, 2014 at 6:19 AM

    Enjoyed reading about this at both places!

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  2. seana grahamOctober 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM

    Thanks, Kathleen.

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  3. Peter RozovskyOctober 5, 2014 at 3:41 PM

    Ian McDonalrd's story is a nice surprise.

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  4. seana grahamOctober 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    It was, and I was kind of glad that I only realized it was THAT Ian McDonald after I'd already read the story.

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  5. Peter RozovskyOctober 5, 2014 at 3:46 PM

    I didn't know there was a THAT Ian McDonald. I had not heard of him before. I was not entirely pleased with the story's resolution, but what went before was outstanding.

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  6. seana grahamOctober 5, 2014 at 3:48 PM

    I didn't mind it, actually, perhaps because I believe in the multiverse, where anything is possible. But you're right, it would have been at least as effective with a different kind of ending.

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