The author of the acclaimed Creation Machine returns to the extraordinary artificial planetary cluster of the Spin with his dazzling new novel - a work of thrilling, heart-in-mouth space opera - a must-read for fans of SF bestsellers such as Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton and Alastair Reynolds.
Born in 1965, Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. He studied Geology at Imperial College and went to work in the North Sea before becoming an Environmental Consultant. For the day job, he specialises in green transport and corporate sustainability, but he has always written - initially for student newspapers and fanzines before moving on, encouraged by creative writing courses, to fiction. He's always been a reader and has loved science fiction since childhood. From the classics of the 50s and 60s to the present day, he's wanted it all- space, stars, astonishment and adventure - and now he's discovered that writing it is even better. Andrew lives in Leicestershire.
Bannister has the knack of making the extraordinary seem normal and
the normal seem extraordinary. It all comes together in dazzling,
pin-sharp storytelling, where humour. acute social commentary and
some terrific aliens jostle together.
*DAILY MAIL*
Wonderful . . . a worthy successor to the potential realised in
Creation Machine. There’s some really big ideas here. I suspect I
am only just comprehending the true ambition of these books. I
really like this series.
*SFFWORLD*
Ancient, brooding technologies...Renegade slaves in a stolen
starships...In Bannister’s hands space opera lives on, gaudy and
brutal and glorious. The Spin Doctor is back.
*STEPHEN BAXTER*
With Bannister's debut novel, Creation Machine, we seemed to have
struck a nugget of SF gold. With Iron Gods our luck continues and
it seems that with this new author we may well have found a vein of
the stuff.
*CONCATENATION*
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