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Splinter
Written by Adam Roberts
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Average Score:
61(6)
Hector travels across America to visit his father on a ranch. He discovers that he has constructed a cult who await the impact of an asteroid. However, Hector is amazed when the section of Earth that the ranch is on suddenly breaks free from the rest of the planet during the collision. He struggles with his skepticism and acceptance of the fact that he is part of the remnants of the human race, on a splinter from the Earth.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Paperback,
256 Pages
Published
by Solaris on August 28, 2007
ISBN-10 184416490X
ISBN-13 978-1844164905
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Reviews
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SFRevu
| Andrea Johnson
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Review Rating: 80
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Roberts fleshes out his characters with all the raw emotions: jealousy, hate, shame, want, and fear. The things that deep down, on that animal level, make us human. Splinter is very smart, very subtle.
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Strange Horizons
| Victoria Hoyle
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Review Rating: 80
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Splinter will always be my favourite of the two novels [compared to Land of the Headless, from the same author], closer to the kind of expressive prose that I love: rich and intertextual, vibrant and gorgeous. I also think that it is subtler and deeper as a result, a much more satisfying exploration of faith and selfhood.
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SF Site
| Rich Horton
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Review Rating: 60
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This is rather an impressive novel, but not quite one I could love.
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Stephen Hunts SF Crownest
| Pauline Morgan
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Review Rating: 60
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The concept is intriguing and the relations between characters realistic but ultimately it is difficult to take the plot completely seriously.
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SF Signal
| JP Frantz
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Review Rating: 50
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I really disliked the story and had to struggle to get through it. [...] It wasn't what I was expecting and the characters served to drag the story down.
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SF Site
| Martin Lewis
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Review Rating: 40
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If he believes he is writing satire it comes across more as a sort of bizarre po-faced farce.
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