Book description
The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British
Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a
darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls,
bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar.
If the British are to believe their eyes, a twisted Nazi scientist
has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers.
And Raybould will be forced to resort to dark methods to hold the
impending invasion at bay.
But dealing with the occult exacts a price. And that price must be
paid in blood.
Ian Tregillis' Bitter Seeds is a chilling masterpiece - a tale of a
twentieth century like our own and also profoundly different.
A major talent ... I can't wait to see more George R. R. Martin,
author of A Game of Thrones Mad English warlocks battling twisted Nazi
psychics? Yes please, thank you. Tregillis's debut has a white-knuckle
plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters - an unstoppable
Vickers of a novel Cory Doctorow Tregillis delivers a dynamite first
novel in Bitter Seeds SFREVU Bitter Seeds shines in its characters about
which we get to care a lot, and in the style which is just superb ...
the one novel of 2010 I would recommend to anyone who believes that
speculative fiction cannot compete with "literary" novels
FANTASY BOOK CRITIC A damned entertaining novel. If Bitter Seeds is any
indication of what's to come, then Tregillis will have a fertile writing
career. The novel receives my highest recommendations SFFWORLD Bitter
Seeds is nothing short of an awesome read as far as I'm concerned. It's
a testament to what Tregillis has done here that I'm already of the
opinion that he keeps writing then I'll keep reading his work. Can you
tell I'm excited? Read Bitter Seeds and you'll see why. GRAEME'S FANTASY
BOOK REVIEW An excellent first book, and I am eagerly awaiting number
two Elizabeth Bear Bitter Seeds is an incredible debut that Tregillis
should be very noted for. It blends a hodgepodge of literary genius,
horror, paranormal and history with some amazing dark tones and
incredibly believable, tragically flawed characters ... This is easily
one of the most impressive debut works I've read BOOKWORM BLUES Ian
Tregillis is the son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot
card reader. He was born and raised in Minnesota, where his parents had
landed after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story,
he's told, involves a Dutch tramp steamer and a stolen horse.) Nowadays
he lives in New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists and
other unsavoury types.
