I'm not the best at keeping up with contemporary fiction, genre or otherwise. I admit it, it's a failing of mine. But if I like the premise of something, I'll generally pick it up out of curiosity. Thus it was for the paperback of Gareth L. Powell's latest sci-fi novel Future's Edge. And I'm liking what I'm reading.
This isn't going to be a review, but rather a brief recommendation from going through the early stages, which in my experience tend to set the tone for the book as a whole. It has a compelling heroine, and a tone that seems to be walking the tightrope between grim and funny. And there's a slow, measured build-up of world building (repetition, I know) that eases you into things. This doesn't feel like an overwhelming drop into the deep end. There is also a method of switching perspectives using different text styles as well as different POVs, which is handy.
When I have time, I'll enjoy reading it in full. Also, confession time, but I also have Powell's other works in Kindle form, but if there's one thing guaranteed to make a book stuck in my permanent backlogs, it's having it in Kindle form.
The copy I got was a paperback through Forbidden Planet. Technically the paperback isn't due out until the end of this month, but I got lucky. I admit, I may not read this in time for a timely review. Many others have done that already, and far more coherently than I usually can. And so...yeah. Good read, recommend.
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