Meant to take note of this yesterday. Tobias Buckell‘s third book in his Caribbean-spiced sci-fi series came out yesterday. My copy of Sly Mongoose is already in the mail and should hopefully arrive in a few days, so I’ll give a review of it when it has been thoroughly devoured.
Publisher’s Weekly already has their review up, and it looks promising:
“Buckell returns to the universe of Crystal Rain (2006) and Ragamuffin (2007) for another action-packed story of human colonists fighting to survive on an alien world with all the odds against them. The story bounces between two protagonists: teenage Timas, one of the few inhabitants of the floating spherical city of Yatapek who can maintain the enormous mining machine that harvests ore from the furnace-hot surface of Venus-like Chilo, and Pepper, aka Juan Smith, an elite Ragamuffin soldier from New Anegada who’d prefer to forget about his violent past. As the only survivor of a ship infected with a virus that turns people into murderous zombie slaves of the alien Swarm, the last thing Pepper wants is another fight, but with the Swarm making inroads on Chilo, he has little choice. Buckell delivers double helpings of action and violence in a plot-driven story worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster.”
Can’t wait to see more of Pepper in action. He was one of my favorites from the previous two stories, so it’s great to see him taking the spotlight. If anyone else has gotten their hands on this, I’d love to hear your reaction.
I see that smile.