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A review by clairereviews
No Way Home by Lucas Bale
3.0
Review: No Way Home, novella collection by Lucas Bale, J. S. Collyer et al Publication Date: 26th February 2015
ASIN: B00U2YDP24
Source: Author provided review copy
Rating: 3*
Synopsis:
Stories From Which There is No Escape. Nothing terrifies us more than being stranded. Helpless, forsaken, cut-off. Locked in a place from which there is no escape, no way to get home. A soldier trapped in an endless war dies over and over, only to be awakened each time to fight again - one of the last remaining few seeking to save mankind from extinction. In rural 70s England, an RAF radio engineer returns to an abandoned military installation, but begins to suffer hallucinations, shifts in time and memories that are not his own. A widower, one of ten thousand civilian space explorers, is sent alone to determine his assigned planet's suitability for human colonisation, but stumbles across a woman who is part of the same programme and shouldn't be there at all. A suicidal woman in a poverty-stricken near-future America, where political apathy has allowed special interests to gain control of the country, takes part in a particularly unpleasant crowd-funding platform, established by the nation's moneyed elite to engage the masses. An assassin from the future, sent back in time to murder an insurgent, is left stranded when he fails in his mission and knows he will soon cease to exist. These sometimes dark, sometimes heart-warming, but always insightful stories and more are to be found in No Way Home, where eight of the most exciting new voices in speculative fiction explore the mental, physical and even meta-physical boundaries that imprison us when we are lost.
My Review:
This is a nice collection of novellas, particularly if you've not read any of the authors before. It's a relatively quick and easy way to see whether you like these short stories before trying a full- length novel.
On the whole, I enjoyed this collection. Some stories I preferred, but all are full of suspense and thrills.,
*I received an ARC of No Way Home in return for my honest review*
ASIN: B00U2YDP24
Source: Author provided review copy
Rating: 3*
Synopsis:
Stories From Which There is No Escape. Nothing terrifies us more than being stranded. Helpless, forsaken, cut-off. Locked in a place from which there is no escape, no way to get home. A soldier trapped in an endless war dies over and over, only to be awakened each time to fight again - one of the last remaining few seeking to save mankind from extinction. In rural 70s England, an RAF radio engineer returns to an abandoned military installation, but begins to suffer hallucinations, shifts in time and memories that are not his own. A widower, one of ten thousand civilian space explorers, is sent alone to determine his assigned planet's suitability for human colonisation, but stumbles across a woman who is part of the same programme and shouldn't be there at all. A suicidal woman in a poverty-stricken near-future America, where political apathy has allowed special interests to gain control of the country, takes part in a particularly unpleasant crowd-funding platform, established by the nation's moneyed elite to engage the masses. An assassin from the future, sent back in time to murder an insurgent, is left stranded when he fails in his mission and knows he will soon cease to exist. These sometimes dark, sometimes heart-warming, but always insightful stories and more are to be found in No Way Home, where eight of the most exciting new voices in speculative fiction explore the mental, physical and even meta-physical boundaries that imprison us when we are lost.
My Review:
This is a nice collection of novellas, particularly if you've not read any of the authors before. It's a relatively quick and easy way to see whether you like these short stories before trying a full- length novel.
On the whole, I enjoyed this collection. Some stories I preferred, but all are full of suspense and thrills.,
*I received an ARC of No Way Home in return for my honest review*