Crystal Rain review at Errant Dreams

August 27th 2007 at 12:10 pm

Errant Dreams really enjoyed reading Crystal Rain:

It’s difficult for me to believe that Crystal Rain is Tobias S. Buckell’s debut novel—it’s that good. The feel is incredibly organic, as though the world unwinds naturally before us. It feels as though the reader is experiencing the story of John and the Nanagada rather than reading a constructed fiction. Rather than presenting us with artificial cliff-hangers and twists, Buckell allows any surprises to come out in natural pieces throughout the story, such that if you figure something out ahead of time there’s no feeling of let-down when it’s revealed, because the story doesn’t rely on that twist of surprise for its pacing and interest.

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