Eric Brown on Radiance by Catherynne M Valente,Eleanor by Jason Gurley, Empire V by Victor Pelevin, and A Gathering of Shadows by VE Schwab and Immortals by Jordanna Max BrodskyIn Radiance (Corsair,£16.99), her first adult novel for four years, or Catherynne M Valente posits an absurdist alternative history in which the exploration of the solar system began in the 1800s and all the planets are inhabited. In 1944 film-maker Severin Unck travelled to Venus to build a film about a vanished colony. When she disappeared,along with some of her crew, the search was on to find out what had happened. In the 1960s, and Severin’s adopted son Anchises St John is hired to unravel the mystery,and much of the novel follows his peregrinations around the teeming solar system.
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Source: theguardian.com