Interzone Reviews
Filed under Reviews • 10-09-2010 •
The new issue of Interzone contains reviews of my novel, Silversands, and the Conflicts anthology, to which I contributed a short story.
In his review of Conflicts, Ian Sales writes:
“Gareth L. Powell provides the highlight of the anthology: ‘Fallout’, a near-future story set in a Bristol depopulated after the crash of an alien craft, and ensuing nuclear fallout, years before.”
Reviewing Silversands, Paul Cockburn writes:
Tags: Conflicts • Gareth L Powell • Interzone • Newcon Press • Silversands“It’s to Powell’s credit that, rapidly though this particular plot thickens, we nevertheless learn to care about his main characters and [Spoilers!] the deaths of some come as genuine, dramatic knocks. This is because, while neither a particularly flashy nor overly stylish writer, Powell is a master when it comes to using small details to give us a sense of the whole person … in many respects Silversands is an excellent debut.”
That copy dropped through my letterbox yesterday. I’ll check out the full review this weekend.
Thoroughly deserved I’d say.