Courtesy of Bookslut:

All in all, The Ocean and All Its Devices is a great collection of the kind of literary speculative fiction that gets lost on the store shelves, or worse yet, never even makes it there. I’m always surprised that authors who excel at this sort of writing are not well known, because they certainly have a lot to offer readers who like their stories with plenty of plot and not a lot of sitting around in contemplation of life, love and whether or not someone is pretty enough. Spencer puts his characters in situations that the rest of us can not imagine but never loses sight of the innate humanness of their experience. He is a most compelling and unusual author and provides an excellent example of all the greatness that short science fiction and fantasy have to offer. (And his book shows yet again what Subterranean Press is doing right and why more readers need to aware of this outstanding small press.)

Posted on Thursday, May 4th, 2006 at 4:06 pm.