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Vellum

The Book of All Hours : 1

By Hal Duncan

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| Hardcover | 9781405052085

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A magnificent, fantastical literary epic of Heaven and Hell in direct conflict, with sleeper agents who will murder, rape and torture at their masters command, and where the heroes will be lucky to save their own skins. It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to Continue

A magnificent, fantastical literary epic of Heaven and Hell in direct conflict, with sleeper agents who will murder, rape and torture at their masters command, and where the heroes will be lucky to save their own skins. It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle, and where the easy rhetoric of Good and Evil, Order versus Chaos just doesn't apply. Here there are no heroes, no darlings of destiny struggling to save the day, and there are no villains, no dark lords of evil out to destroy the world. Or at least if there are, it's not quite clear which is which. Here, the most ancient gods and the most modern humans are equally fate's fools, victims of their own hubris, struggling to save their own skins, their own souls, but sometimes....just sometimes....sacrificing everything in the name of humanity.

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  • Vellum: The Book of All Hours By Hal Duncan

    The third cause for excitement is the U.S. publication of Hal Duncan's debut, Vellum: The Book of All Hours, which has burned up science fiction bestseller charts (and Internet discussion boards) since it appeared last summer in the U.K. A deeply rea ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Vellum : The Book of All Hours Part 1

    This novel is a likely candidate for the 'most hyped first novel of 2005' award. Its publishers, Macmillan, have likened the significance of its publication to that of Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, and well before its publication in August numbered ... (read full critics)

    infinityplus published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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  • A slow read, but a really interesting one.
    It takes some (dozens of) pages to get used to Hal Duncan's hysteric jumping from a topic to another, switching points of view and even the time in which the story is set. But once the reader manages to overcome the writer's challenge and grasp the generic ... (continue)

    A slow read, but a really interesting one.
    It takes some (dozens of) pages to get used to Hal Duncan's hysteric jumping from a topic to another, switching points of view and even the time in which the story is set. But once the reader manages to overcome the writer's challenge and grasp the generic plot the story unfolds magnificently, with the second half admittedly smoother than the first.

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