expendablemudge's review
3.0
Rating: 3* of five
The Publisher Says: Hugh Howey's novel, SAND, introduced us to a future America covered in sand and the terrorists who will stop at nothing to unearth the fabled city of Danvar.
Scavenger centers on the story of Divemaster Rush, a bereaved father and estranged husband who is offered a job he can't refuse. Rush can either harden his heart and survive or risk his life for what already seems lost.
Scavenger can be read without having read SAND. Written and sold with permission from Hugh Howey.
My Review: I haven't read SAND, but this novelette set in the same universe makes me want to. The idea of a future of endless, shifting desert sands has resonance for my South Texan desertification-fearin' self. (Hey, the Rio Grande is a dry ditch in a lot of places. THAT is scary as fuck, people.)
Nice story indeed, and Rush is a character I can easily imagine tent-poling a novel. The Honorable Man among the Degenerates is an evergreen for a reason. I suspect this post-apocalyptic world can support quite a lot of stories. (One of my personal tests for good world-building is to see if I can imagine other characters in the setting, and see them in gripping stories that are wholly their own.)
It's 99ยข on Kindle, and it's a pleasant way to wile away an hour. Support indie SF and take a chance on this exciting tale.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Publisher Says: Hugh Howey's novel, SAND, introduced us to a future America covered in sand and the terrorists who will stop at nothing to unearth the fabled city of Danvar.
Scavenger centers on the story of Divemaster Rush, a bereaved father and estranged husband who is offered a job he can't refuse. Rush can either harden his heart and survive or risk his life for what already seems lost.
Scavenger can be read without having read SAND. Written and sold with permission from Hugh Howey.
My Review: I haven't read SAND, but this novelette set in the same universe makes me want to. The idea of a future of endless, shifting desert sands has resonance for my South Texan desertification-fearin' self. (Hey, the Rio Grande is a dry ditch in a lot of places. THAT is scary as fuck, people.)
Nice story indeed, and Rush is a character I can easily imagine tent-poling a novel. The Honorable Man among the Degenerates is an evergreen for a reason. I suspect this post-apocalyptic world can support quite a lot of stories. (One of my personal tests for good world-building is to see if I can imagine other characters in the setting, and see them in gripping stories that are wholly their own.)
It's 99ยข on Kindle, and it's a pleasant way to wile away an hour. Support indie SF and take a chance on this exciting tale.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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