The great escape

de Ian Watson · Publicada por primera vez en 2002

Predictably unpredictable, normally abnormal Watson combines science fiction and fantasy into an eclectic mix that includes stories about fallen angels in Hell rebelling and mounting a breakout, about the inconvenience of keeping aging parents in your brain instead of a nursing home, about Jesus' immortal brother as solo passenger on the first starship, about alien coffins bombarding the solar system, about right-wing U.S. militias stealing a quantum computer to commit nuclear blackmail, about a computer games designer haunted by the cyber-ghost of his murdered wife, about frozen heads and strange mind-changes, and how a cake decorator defeats a vampire with a sweet tooth. De-evolution, treasure-hunting via hang-glider, dark animal fantasies, humanity as a hive-entity, Hercules Poirot on a starship—Watson takes the strange, the eerie, the weird, mixes in his seasoned writing skills, and produces a potpourri of the fantastic. These nineteen stories are sure to amuse, bemuse and entertain. "There is a keen intelligence at work (and at play)... along with the vigorous prose of a writer whose love for words is fully requited... Tragedy, farce, metaphysical/ scientific revelations, pageantry and grand reconciliations, all join in a series of splendid climaxes, madly mixing pathos, bathos, wisdom, and wild absurdity... Watson offers a lucky harvest indeed." - Faren Miller, Locus Magazine