Roger Levy
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Icarus
Life on Haven is restricted. Mankind lives in tunnels beneath the wind-scoured, irradiated surface. Survival in such a harsh environment demands harsh rules. Only that which is Fact is allowed.
But now there is UnFact. An orbital escape pod lies locked on the floor of a lake of solidified lava. Inside the pod, a secret cargo and a mummified corpse, and scrawled on the pod’s walls, the words, ‘I was betrayed’.
And the men who discover this must die.
Life on Haze is vicious. Villagers struggle to survive in its deep forests. Lords from the AngWat take children from the husbands and the wives and mould them into something else entirely.
And on Earth one man believes he can escape the past and do the work of God.
After the critically acclaimed Reckless Sleep and Dark Heavens, his grim dystopias set on a failing Earth, Roger Levy now takes us to other worlds without losing any of his trademark psychological acuity and elegant style. Or the sense that nothing we know can really be trusted.
'Remarkable. The shade of Philip K. Dick is evident behind Levy's polished and luminescent prose' Lineone.net
Reviews for Roger Levy
‘Transcends the genre to produce chilling, gripping and unconventional work of fiction’ The Morning Star
‘Compelling and evocative writing’ Starburst
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Dark Heavens
…await the Willing Dead
Our planet is dying, literally falling apart. Our attempts to colonise Dirangesept, the one other habitable world we’ve found, have been bloody failures. All that’s left now is to wait for one last desperate effort to slaughter the beasts of Dirangesept. Or to Leave . . .
The Leavings. Consensual Mass Suicides. The last act of those in search of salvation. Thousands of people at a time, promised heaven by a new crop of prophets. And delivered there with the connivance of the Administration.
Cy Auger works for CMS. It’s his job to ensure that the Leavings aren’t a cover for mass murder. With his wife in a virtual coma, new rifts opening in the ground everyday and pollution threatening to kill everyone long before tectonic rifts finally tear the planet apart, Cy might imagine that things couldn’t get much worse.
Until a series of deaths at the General Medical School open the door on a conspiracy that cuts to the core of whatever remaining hope the world has. And forces Cy to face again the day his wife was lost to him.
'An extremely well written, compelling novel. Dark, edgy and intense. Highly recommended' Thealienonline.net
‘Compelling and evocative writing. The plot is crammed with twists and turns. Just when you think there cannot possibly be any more surprises in store, another startling revelation is found on the next page’ Starburst
‘Edgy SF. Comparisons to Philip K. Dick aren’t too wide of the mark. Assured and uncompromising, Dark Heavens marks the emergence of a potential major new voice in British SF’ Dreamwatch
‘An apocalyptic tale of political intrigue, betrayal and greed’ Morning Star
Reviews for Reckless Sleep by Roger Levy
`A striking debut. Gripping and unconventional’ SFSite.com
`A tour de force. Subtle assured style. Recommended’ The Third Alternative
`Assured. Good promise for the future’ Vector
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Reckless Sleep
Reckless Sleep presents an apocalyptic, high tech Future twisted by paranoia and false dreams. A future made for Far Warrior Jon Sciler.
After the disastrous failure of the first expedition to Dirangesept, the Far Warriors were sent to take over the planet. They were our last hope. Controlling autoid combat machines from orbit by remote links, the Warriors thought they were invulnerable. They were wrong. As thousands of autoids were destroyed by what appeared to be fabulously beautiful beasts the mental agony suffered by the Warriors tipped their mind over the edge. And now, years later, on an Earth close geological collapse, someone is killing the surviving Far Warriors
As ash from volcanic eruptions drifts in the streets of London and villages disappear overnight into fresh fault lines, the population seeks escape in the addictive gamezones of Virtual Reality. The companies who control the phantom zones stand to make billions if they can develop ever more perfect virtual environments and to do so they need men who have become attuned to the highest military grade virtual software; the Far Warriors. The testers need to be able to keep secrets. Secrets about the gamezones, secrets about what really happened on Dirangesept, secrets about what lies in VR, waiting to get out. Secrets to die for.
'Remarkable. The shade of Philip K Dick is evident behind Levy's polished and luminescent prose, but his imagination is very much his own.' LineOne.net
'An impressive first novel… attractively dark' Dreamwatch
'Assured. Good promise for the future' Vector
About The Author
Roger Levy is a dentist who doesn’t use freaky future technology on his patient’s teeth. He lives in Muswell Hill with his wife and children
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Icarus
(Gollancz,
2006)
Aug 06
Dark Heavens
(Gollancz Millenium,
2003)
Gollancz Millenium Pbk Feb 04
Reckless Sleep
(Gollancz,
2000)
Gollancz Pbk Jun 01
Icarus
by Roger Levy
