![]() I think that’s possibly my best comment about the book, I will be reading it again and I’ll be keeping an eye out for the sequel that is mentioned at the end. There will now be a dramatis personae included in the book which I received later and I think it’ll be helpful, and next time I read it I’m sure I’ll find it so. Threads that make it that little bit harder to read the book because you always have one eye looking back, trying to tie things together. But there is also the meta plot, that you can see the initial threads of at the beginning, threads that shine brighter and brighter as you progress. Many of them are brilliant and all of them tell a tale well in their limited space, a skill that I’m always a fan of. ![]() If this was just a collection of short stories is would be fine. And this is where my, small and puny, brain got confused. The box wasn’t just a place for tramps to relive themselves, though it is mentioned a couple of times, but something more, something that changed things.Īnd so more stories were written, to tie together the disparate threads into a plot, some editing was done, names changed, references made to events in other stories. A number of the initial stories had a modern day magical fantasy theme. Except, and this is what I understand from conversations I’ve had and the foreword to the book itself, the plan changed. But back to the book, a short story collection featuring a phone box. The fact that a few of them remain, much like the blue police boxes you see dotted about selling coffee, gives me a little burst of nostalgia. Now being a child of the 70′s I have fond memories of these impressive pieces of British engineering, including a memorable party when I was very young were there was one in the back garden. The original plan was quite simple, a collection of short stories that each featured the Iconic British Red Phone Box. To understand why it took me a week to read it you need to understand what you have before you. Personally I found it a hard book to read, not a bad book but due to it’s structure I found it at times hard going. And it was free so feel free to take whatever I say with a pinch of salt.Īlso I’m good friends with one of the writers, they know who they are, and fleetingly thoughts about writing for the anthology as well, so again take me thoughts with however my salt you’d like. Let them take you to a very different London - one that hides on the other side of the fractured glass.įirst up a couple of disclaimers, this review is based off an ARC provided to me to review the book, so I won’t be picking holes in the layout or editing here. ![]() Red Phone Box is a darkly magical story cycle, a network of interweaving tales by a dazzling range of masterful authors, including Gun Machine’s Warren Ellis. They and others will find themselves swept up as the playthings of gods who have managed to get along peacefully for millennia - until now. Cory, from a different world, on a desperate quest for allies. Gloria, who only intended to annoy her daddy. Jon, who has lived and died and lived again. Others follow in her footsteps, their lives intertwining, and the fate of the world hanging on their dance. The phone box she enters takes her on a journey she could never have imagined, one in which the past and the future will be rewritten. Haunted by memories of the man who abandoned her, Amber goes walking in the deep night. Sinister forces roam London’s streets, skulking through the neon-lit rain. What shapes will you find in the splintered glass? Shatter a mirror, and rearrange the pieces.
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