Michael Barnes
Willis, has been awarded eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards and a member, since 2009, of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and I have enjoyed her award winning time travel shenanigan All Clear series and Oxford novels. I was worried when I realised this was contemporary set in Alien tourist Roswell and involving a cast of characters Francie our protagonist there for a wedding of a best friend Take the fact that its slightly off-the-wall premise of Francie, the wedding attendee in question, a con man named Wade, an old lady who lives for trips to local casinos, a retiree with a RV the size of Texas and UFO-believing devotee with more than a few conspiracy theories in his pocket, all who end up getting abducted by alien they call Indy, which could be too over the top but it not only works in Willis craft but is made to mean something.
The resolution is when the puzzle pieces of this novel click together to make a satisfying and for me unexpected whole. The novel as Alex Kingsley at Ancillary Review of Books reminds us "…to think critically and put compassion over fear—an especially relevant reminder in a day and age when conspiracy theories are alive and well".
Willis, has been awarded eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards and a member, since 2009, of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and I have enjoyed her award winning time travel shenanigan All Clear series and Oxford novels. I was worried when I realised this was contemporary set in Alien tourist Roswell and involving a cast of characters Francie our protagonist there for a wedding of a best friend Take the fact that its slightly off-the-wall premise of Francie, the wedding attendee in question, a con man named Wade, an old lady who lives for trips to local casinos, a retiree with a RV the size of Texas and UFO-believing devotee with more than a few conspiracy theories in his pocket, all who end up getting abducted by alien they call Indy, which could be too over the top but it not only works in Willis craft but is made to mean something.
The resolution is when the puzzle pieces of this novel click together to make a satisfying and for me unexpected whole. The novel as Alex Kingsley at Ancillary Review of Books reminds us "…to think critically and put compassion over fear—an especially relevant reminder in a day and age when conspiracy theories are alive and well".