A review by tumblehawk
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis

2.0

Warren Ellis is overflowing with insanely cool, and just plain insane, ideas. I love his Twitter feed and his newsletters and his graphic novel Transmetropolitan, and more than anything his podcast SPEKTRMODULE, but this was my first foray into prose fiction of his and I was pretty disappointed. It's a fairly clumsy novel, with awkward dialogue and a spic-n-span clean ending that ties up a messy story much too quickly. I can't say I didn't enjoy reading it, but I also definitely didn't take my time with it. But one thing I should mention is that I generally don't gravitate towards crime as a genre, so the deck was stacked against this one going into it.