Michael, the Science Fiction and Imports Buyer for the UK’s Waterstone’s books, has just posted his Top Ten SF Titles of 2006. I’m very gratified to see two Pyr titles making the list, Chris Roberson’s Paragaea and Joel Shepherd’s Crossover. Michael writes:
“Shepherd’s book is a high action, gritty techno thriller that reads like a cross between Ghost in the Shell and Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, introducing the artificial human Cassandra Kresnov in her fight for the right to survive. Chris Roberson’s Paragaea is a wonderful homage to the planetary romances of authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs and features a Russian cosmonaut who crashes on an alternate world and ends up adventuring with a Napoleonic era British naval officer and a humanoid Jaguar man. Retro in every sense of the word, this is a wonderful story, beautifully realised and hugely entertaining.”