Country United Kingdom Publication date August 2008 Language English Media type Print (Paperback) | Genre Science fiction Name Gareth Powell Publisher Elastic Press Role Author | |
Books Ack‑Ack Macaque, The Recollection, Hive Monkey, Macaque Attack, The Last Reef: Stories | ||
Review ack ack macaque by gareth l powell
Gareth Lyn Powell, born 1970, is an English author of science fiction. He is the author of the novels Silversands, The Recollection, Ack-Ack Macaque, Hive Monkey and Macaque Attack.
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In 2013, his alternate history thriller, Ack-Ack Macaque won the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award for Best Novel.
Gareth’s short stories have appeared in a host of magazines and anthologies, including Interzone, Solaris Rising 3, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. One of these stories came top of the 2007 Interzone readers’ poll for best short story of the year. Since then, many of his shorter works have been brought together in the collections, The Last Reef (2008) and The New Ships (coming 2017).
Born and brought up in the West Country, Gareth studied humanities and creative writing at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales). He has given guest lectures on creative writing at Bath Spa University, and has written a series of non-fiction articles on science fiction for The Irish Times.
His first four novels were favourably reviewed in The Guardian by Eric Brown.
Ack ack macaque trilogy by gareth l powell book review
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Powell's first book was a collection, The Last Reef and Other Stories. It compiles much of his short fiction from before 2008, including the Interzone reader's choice poll winner "Ack-Ack Macaque". A second collection, Entropic Angel, was made available for free download from Powell's website in 2013. It reprints "Distant Galaxies Colliding", "The Last Reef" and "Sunsets and Hamburgers" from the previous collection and adds "Entropic Angel", several novel excerpts and an essay.
Silversands was Powell's debut novel. It was initially produced in a run of three hundred hardcover copies and an ebook edition, featuring the additional short story "Memory Dust", was made available by Anarchy Books. The reception was mostly favourable, including reviews from Interzone and Eric Brown in The Guardian. Brown regarded the novel as a "fine hi-tech romp" but was critical of what he called "a rushed and melodramatic dénouement."
The Recollection is the second novel by Powell. The novel received mostly favourable reviews, including reviews from Locus and Powell's second review from Eric Brown in his column in The Guardian. Brown said that the novel's set-pieces were "brilliantly realised" and that the book balanced its high concepts with the human story. He ended his review with "If you read only one space opera this year, it's got to be The Recollection".
In January 2013, Powell released his third novel via Solaris Books, Ack-Ack Macaque, based on the short story of the same name. A sequel, Hive Monkey, followed in 2014. The third volume of the trilogy, Macaque Attack, was released in January 2015.