Simon R. Green in general

(Almost Compulsory Notice: Will be moved to correct section, when section is available!) Two hundred years after Owen Deathstalker and his superhuman companions saved the Empire of Humanity and inaugurated a Golden Age, life is good. The Empire is bigger than it was, safer and more stable. The deranged Tyrant, Empress Lionstone, is dead, replaced by a benevolent constitutional monarchy under the just and righteous House Campbell, assisted by a business-like parliament. Clones, Espers and Aliens, once despised and hunted, are fellow citizens, and the feared AIs of Shub are now Humanity's helpmeets and dogsbodies. Why, even the gladiators in the Arena, ...  Read the complete review

Simon R Green is a British novelist who first burst onto the scene when he was offered the opportunity to write the novelisation of a then little known, unregarded film starring a mid level actor. Accepting the job as a way to pay the rent, Green wrote the novelisation of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, expecting little. When the film's success soared, so did the book, and Green did very well out of it. Green’s first book, ignoring the above as a digression, albeit a helpful one, was “Blue Moon Rising”, a fantasy starring Prince Rupert, the second son who has now become a problem. Whilst a second son is an excellent insurance policy ...  Read the complete review