Guy Adams
Angry Robot Books
416pp A-format paperback
£7.99 UK $tbc Aus
416pp mass-market paperback
$7.99 US $8.99 CAN
ISBN 978 0 85766 037 4
ebook £4.49 / $5.99
ePub ISBN 978 0 85766 038 1
This one has been out for a while but it's still worth a read. As Dean Wesley Smith likes to point out, books aren't produce; they won't spoil. When the book arrived in the mail, I was on my way back to work after meeting my wife for lunch and had stopped by the post office. I decided to read it on my lunch breaks. That didn't happen for two reasons. One, I keep having to run errands during lunch, and two, I was just too drawn into the story to be able to read only a short number of pages every few days.
The idea of a house where each room contains a world or a passage to a world isn't new. James Stoddard used it in The High House and The False House, just to give one example. And while Stoddard's books had some creepy moments, The World House does them one better.
