A Bengal Station Novel: Necropath (Series #1) (Paperback)

from eyloni

After the wonderfully original surprise that was Kéthani, reading this book was a disappointment. Let's begin with the setting and a little rant by yours truly. The novel is set in Bengal Station, which the back cover describes as "an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Bu...

from godbyk

The book opens with Vaughan, a telepath, aboard Bengal Station. Vaughan spends his days at work inspecting ships for stowaways and evidence of criminal mischief and his nights brooding over his dark past while avoiding a social life, preferring to drown his sorrows with alcohol and numbing drugs....

from irapearson

I am not familiar with Eric Brown's work. In fact I'd never heard of him before this. As a consequence, I had no expectations while reading Necropath. What I found was a fast, fun sci-fi thriller with interesting, if not entirely three dimensional, characters. A very brief over-simplified synopsi...

from jerm

Just finished this one. Has a very decent Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon) feel to it. Good Sci-Fi. Maybe a little Stephen Woodward too (Through Violet Eyes). Still processing it, and wondering how it turns into a trilogy, but then I wondered the same thing about the Morgan books too. Jeff Vaug...

from gordsellar

Eric Brown's Necropath is a fine, competent novel that is a kind of SFnal private-detective tale set on a spaceport in the Indian ocean. I rather wished that Brown had made more of the very interesting setting, where Thai and Indian cultures meet on a massive artificial structure in the middle of...