Tom Holt is someone I only discovered recently. I was
looking for a writer to fill the void of smart funny writers that I had since
Vonnegut died and I caught up with the Terry Pratchett series and Tom Robbins
is not nearly prolific enough. Holt fits the bill, and he is woefully unknown
in the states. He writes smart fiction that takes off from what we know of
science and plays with it. It is like comedic science fiction, but I don’t know
if that pigeon –holes him too much. Here he takes the idea of an analogue of
the Large Hadron Collider blowing up and multiverse theory. Some bits are
overdone – the main character has an invisible hand – but overall the effect is
a fun ride of speculative fiction. I’ve only read his five most recent books,
but I’m glad he has a big back catalogue.
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