Debris eBook Jo Anderton
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In a far future where technology is all but indistinguishable from magic, Tanyana is one of the elite.
She can control pions, the building blocks of matter, shaping them into new forms using ritual gestures and techniques. The rewards are great, and she is one of most highly regarded people in the city. But that was before the “accident”.
Stripped of her powers, bound inside a bizarre powersuit, she finds herself cast down to the very lowest level of society. Powerless, penniless and scarred, Tanyana must adjust to a new life collecting “debris”, the stuff left behind by pions. But as she tries to find who has done all of this to her, she also starts to realize that debris is more important than anyone could guess.
Debris is a stunning new piece of Science Fantasy, which draws in themes from Japanese manga, and classic Western SF and Fantasy to create this unique, engrossing debut from the very exciting young author Jo Anderton.
FILE UNDER Science Fiction [ Sentient Matter | Cast Down | Cruel Betrayals | All Is Lies ]
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“A captivating story set in a brilliantly-conceived world.”
- Trudi Canavan, bestselling author of the Black Magician Trilogy
“This is what modern fantasy looks like. Debris is a strong debut novel from a promising new writer, featuring a tough, professional heroine, a clever magic system and a complex, beautifully realised city. I couldn’t put it down.”
– Tansy Rayner Roberts, award-winning author of The Creature Court Trilogy, and Siren Beat
“Anderton’s debut builds a marvelous world, shakes it to the core with adventure and romance, then wraps the whole thing in one hell of a mystery. I can’t wait for the rest.”
– Ian Tregillis, author of Bitter Seeds
“Jo Anderton combines elements of steampunk with her own unique vision to create something striking. Debris is a first novel NOT to be missed.”
– Marianne de Pierres, award winning author of the Parish Plessis and Sentients of Orion series.
“Debris is a fast read, and very well put together. I was immersed in its world at every stage, and fascinated by its characters. Tanyana may be too proud for her own good, but Jo Anderton has written a novel she deserves to take pride in.”
- Warpcore SF
“Debris itself deals with losing everything one has, and Anderton isn’t afraid to put Tanyana out of her comfort zones every now and again. … The author takes a perhaps unique approach to magic in this novel, and combines science-fiction with fantasy pretty well. The magic system is well thought out.”
- The Founding Fields
“The Veiled Worlds story is something that’s pretty unique out there at the moment, the world building is spectacular with a concept that’s amazingly simple yet wonderfully constructed and when added to some decent characterisation it’s a title that really does make you think as well as give you something ideal. Add to this an author who really believes in giving their all and this debut is pretty impressive. Angry Robot is a name that’s fast becoming one of the publishers to redraw the lines on quality, authors and of course stories that will have readers demanding more. Great work.”
- Falcata Times
Debris eBook Jo Anderton
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Debris eBook Jo Anderton Reviews
This is the first book in a new series and is an excellent offering from Angry Robot Books! Debris is a brilliant book, I loved and devoured it!
Tanyana is an interesting and complex character, there’s depth and roundedness to her that I find can sometimes be lacking in female characters. She’s not cast in the archetype of ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ but instead, ‘human’. She wants to do the right thing but her motivations are not always altruistic and I found this very reasonable and realistic thinking how I’d react if I were in her position.
The supporting characters are varied and interesting, and while only a few of the supporting characters become rounded and real, the others remain intriguing mysteries rather than cutouts.
With regard to the story, it is obvious that not all is as it seems right from the beginning, but how that unravels is quite surprising. I didn’t expect the direction of the story, I was engaged by it and found it believable.
This is not your average fantasy story of quests and journeys… this is a story about a woman in a fantasy world, her talent which is stripped from her and how she adjusts to a life performing a role she hadn’t previously imagined possible.
Congratulations to Anderton on an engaging and entertaining first novel! This book is one I would highly recommend.
I enjoyed Debris, but thought it was bleak. I don't think I would read it again and that is my criteria for how good a book is.
It's rare that I give up on a book as quickly as this one. But felt like a satirical comedy skit satirizing a fantasy novel. This kind of overwrought stuff is appealing to some, but I highly recommend downloading a sample first to see if you can bear it - I wish I had.
I loved this book. I'll leave it's description to the professional reviewers. Let me just say this wonderful world building and unique (yeah!!!).
This is a book that appears to be essentially banking on its central conceit/speculative fiction question to draw in and hold the readers attention, essentially "what would happen if a high-fantasy setting went through the industrial revolution and reached the steam age of technology/society, but using mana and spells instead of steam and mechanics?"
The first problem is that the writer doesn't evidence any real awareness of the other books that have done this (most notably for fantasy gamers, in D&D's Eberron setting, most notably for Steampunk fans "literally everything in the steampunk genre, ever", most notably for horror fans the various cousins of Cthulhu Tech, etc, etc...) and as a result feels the need to talk down to the reader a lot, as if she's explaining the premise to a small child instead of someone that, statistically, is probably seeing this play out for the twentieth time and waiting for the "twist" to show up.
The second problem is that the answer to the question is obvious. BLINDINGLY obvious. Once the author introduces the magical equivalent of coal-soot pollution (the titular debris), how the fact that it's magical pollution rather than mundane pollution is going to change the situation is so absurdly unsurprising that I just spoiled the book for 90% of the people that just read this, despite not really revealing any more information than is in the title.
There's also the more mileage-may-vary issue of the villains literally being villains solely because they're the fantasy version of a straw atheist. That's... all of it. Their entire motivation. Well, 1800s atheists, so watchmaker-god deists. That's right, the bad guys are capital-E evil and described as literally inhuman monsters on the grounds that they're the fantasy equivalent of Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin. I suppose you can choose whatever moral system you like, and I suppose atheism has a little more relevance when magic's a thing, but... it seems like evil by way of Thomas Jefferson might be a bit of a hard sell, as these things go. It only gets worse when the mentally disabled are literally magic, as a major plot point. "Ignorance sacred, progress profane" is a... REALLY weirdly religious-right moral to go for in a SciFi/Fantasy book. Not gonna put even a little grey area in there for the benefit of people who, statistically probably quite like the printing press and the internet and so on? No? All right, then.
All this would, of course, be easily forgiven were the missteps overwhelmed by tight plotting, compelling characters, and so on. Since I'm complaining about these details, you can probably work out that the characters are flat and somewhat unsympathetic, the writing style lends itself to rambling, and even the passing attempts at melodrama fall kind of flat due to reader investment hinging on the uninteresting premise.
Short version Not great, not "so bad it's good", just depressingly mediocre. A solid "meh".
Debris unique world is a great setting for a unique story. I was drawn in and have subsequently read the second and purchased the third in the Veiled World series.
Good series.
Are you a sci fi fan? Then you'll dig this from Jo Anderton, who offers a great new universe to explore. Strong characterisation is the key to Anderton's work, second only to a gripping plot. World creation at its best. Check it out if you're keen to live in another world.
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