I just finished Echo City by Tim Lebbon, and it was beautiful. There were no pat answers to the very big questions posed, but there was hope. The protagonist, Peer, is one of the loveliest women I’ve come across in the sci-fi genre: pure, pragmatic, and good. So often my cynicism is fed and validated even in the fiction I consume, but Peer made me want to be a better person.
A beautiful book, written well, with a strong, uncomplicated, lovely woman as its hero. Redemption, salvation, hope and love filled the pages, along with self-sacrifice and fierce loyalty. It was also a bitchin’ yarn. The plot itself kicked ass, and is love to go into it a bit more when I have a charger for my netbook. I recommend it highly.
The fact that it featured an unforgiving desert and a city collapsing until the weight of its own history might have something to do with my adoration of it. But again, I need more time and a larger keyboard for that.
Tim is the man, through and through!
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Thank you kindly, so glad you enjoyed Echo City.
Just finished chapter 10. I am loving Peer as well and am loving Lebbon’s prose. I will be buying more of his books.