Volov

VolovAccording to the late John Bright Holmes, who came within a whisker of buying the first draft for George Allen & Unwin, this is an 'interesting and rather fascinating' book. According to an expert reviewer, this is a 'perfectly extraordinary book', and the writer has an imagination of 'astonishing breadth and fertility'. The reviewer describes the planet in which the adventure is set as 'a moralistic parable version of our own; and with a wealth of

According to the late John Bright-Holmes, who came within a whisker of buying the first draft for George Allen & Unwin, this is an 'interesting and rather fascinating' book.

According to an expert reviewer, this is a 'perfectly extraordinary book', and the writer has an imagination of 'astonishing breadth and fertility'.

The reviewer describes the planet in which the adventure is set as 'a moralistic parable-version of our own; and with a wealth of consistent and lavish invention which almost suggests Tolkien, the author has devised a complete history for it, economic and political and social, underpinning this with a similarly complete structure of these people's religion, their philosophy, their science, their symbolism, their mode of spacial perception - everything you can think of, and nearly all of it deeply interesting'.

He concludes 'I was fascinated; and if a writer can fascinate weary old me, he must be a bloody marvel'.

A truly extraordinary book.