On

· Hachette UK
5.0
3 reviews
Ebook
400
Pages

About this ebook

Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life.

And then one day Tighe falls off the wall. And falls, and falls, and falls ...

Lavishly praised everywhere from Asimov's magazine to Interzone, ON is proof positive that Adam Roberts is a new author whose potential for greatness is rapidly being realised.

ON is at once a vertiginous concept novel, a coming of age saga, a picaresque journey across a changed world and an epic adventure in the very best traditions of SF.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
3 reviews
lari McCauley
October 1, 2021
Adam Roberts has, as in his excellent 'Yellow Blue Tibia' provided an elegant and hugely enjoyable reveal that allows all the pieces of this strange world to fall into place. Curiously, for a book where precipices and vertiginous landscapes abound, the work is about a fall from grace, and the extreme price some are willing others to pay to set things aright once more. It is a harsh world seen through the eyes of a child where innocence is soon lost amidst the brutality of a deprived world. Adam Roberts doesn't spare his characters, so expect all kinds of brutality, familial, societal and more. But it serves a purpose, it adds to the texture of the world that Adam Roberts creates and it makes one wonder if the price of raising humanity from a degraded state is worth the price. I have greatly enjoyed all of the books I have read by Roberts. His worlds and the dilemmas their inhabitants occupy have a way of getting under my skin. To make me think.

About the author

Adam Roberts is the Professor of 19th century literature at Royal Holloway. He won the John W. Campbell and the BSFA awards for Best Novel for Jack Glass. He has produced one of the most acclaimed and varied bodies of work in modern SF. He is also the author of several academic works on both SF and 19th century poetry.

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