Books by Adam Christopher and Complete Book Reviews
Adam Christopher. Angry Robot (www.angryrobotbooks.com), $12.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-85766-193-7
Angry Robot launches its WorldBuilder project, which invites sanctioned fan fiction for certain works, with Christopher’s bleak steampunk noir. The Empire State is an alternate 1950s New York surrounded by endless mysterious fog and embroiled in...
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Adam Christopher. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3508-1
In a spacefaring future, Capt. Abraham Idaho “Ida” Cleveland’s cunning victory over the Spiders at Tau Retore is rewarded with a posting to a backwater naval demolition facility in the Shadow star system. He soon discovers that his victory has been...
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Adam Christopher. Tor, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7640-4
Christopher’s uneven second Spider Wars novel (after The Burning Dark) grinds gears as it shifts from space horror to espionage and adventure. As the war continues against the Spiders, “organo-mechanical” creatures vulnerable to psychic attacks, spy
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Adam Christopher. Tor, $24.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7918-4
Christopher (The Machine Awakes) merges pulp SF and crime novels in the pleasing launch of his L.A. trilogy. In an alternate 1960s America, Raymond is a robot PI, the last of his kind. He’s hired to find a missing movie star with secrets as deep as...
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Adam Christopher. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9183-4
Christopher takes the Electromatic Detective Agency’s proprietor, Ray Electromatic (from 2015’s Made to Kill), for a spin in a shorter story that lacks punch. Ray’s boss, Ada, a computer that fills an entire room and fits the part of wry moll, sends
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