Reviews

Shamanspace by Steve Aylett

bookmarvel's review

Well I bought this book to turn into blackout poetry and I didn’t really expect that much from it, but I just did not understand it at all. Like I could understand sentences and sometimes paragraphs, but I don’t know anything about the world or how it works, and like wtf is the magic/dimensional traveling/ethereal shit? And is there a plot? I kinda expected it to be bad but I didn’t expect it to be unfollowable, I feel like I just missed all of the world building and explanation of the physics of the world.
I am very excited to try and make poetry out of it tho, it’s probably not gonna make any sense but it’ll probably make more sense than this book lol.

Ok I read some other reviews and it seems that it’s like prose poetry and it’s not really supposed to have a plot? Which is very valid.

bbabyok's review

2.0

The man certainly knows how to turn a phrase and the ideas are a mile a minute.

ramonnogueras's review

4.0

Si Grant Morrison dice que tu libro es bueno, eso es que como mínimo va a ser raro. Y este lo es. También es el excelente ejemplo de una ciencia ficción diferente y alternativa que querría ver más a menudo.

Alyx va a matar a Dios por todo lo que ha hecho. Hay gente en contra, porque creen que eso acabaría el universo. Otros están a favor. Y de eso trata todo. ¿Puede uno asesinarse a sí mismo?

aphrael's review

2.0

short. story and world are interesting. writing is so poetic that it's nearly unintelligible. I'm not sure if that made it good or just pretentious.

rickklaw's review

5.0

Trying to describe Steve Aylett’s wacky prose and wild adventures are like describing the wind on your face. And the imaginative Shamanspace is no different. God has been proven to exist and opposing groups of occult assassins compete to exterminate the supreme being. And it all gets weird from there. Complete with Aylett’s own illustrations and dynamic prose, Shamanspace is a fine novel from one of the freshest voices in fantastic fiction.