stamping butterflies - reviews

(Shortlisted BSFA Award for Best Novel/Vector Books of the Year 2004)

'Grimwood's hard-boiled prose reels you in like a velvet rope.' Entertainment Weekly

'This book belongs in most sf collections and is highly recommended.' Library Journal

'The novel is a thrilling adventure, filled with intrigue, ideas and moments of surprising power.' SciFi Chronicle

'Ambitious, deft and accomplished... confirms Grimwood's place amongst the very best of contemporary SF authors.' Iain Banks

'A bona fide classic.' Publishing News

'Grimwood imbues his creations with startling psychological complexity... He has produced, imago-like, an inspiring butterfly of humanity and hope from a hard shell of despair.' The Guardian

'This is a virtuoso lesson in bringing artistic unity to radically dissonant elements. It is also the novel of a writer with real heart.' Time Out

Grimwood skillfully weaves Moroccan and Far Eastern culture into an inventive, philosophically resonant story line that keeps the reader guessing about Prisoner Zero until the final pages.' Booklist

'Forget The Matrix, this is far more sexy and sophisticated. Mind-bendingly good.' Cosmopolitan

'Turning the idea of the past determining the future upside down, this thriller takes an attempted assassination of the US president and an emperor awaiting his death in distant China and creates a riveting ride.' Esquire

'The best book this talented author has yet written.' New York Review of Science Fiction

'One of the most forceful and iconoclastic writers at work today.' Crime Time

'Grimwood has written some of the best SF in the world over the past five years and Stamping Butterflies continues his journey to greatness.' SFX

'This is nothing less than a monumental achievement. A novel to which you willingly and joyfully devote your total attention and which is even more satisfying on multiple readings.' Vector

'Futures near and far collide. Three stories intertwine tantalisingly, their resolution shocks.' New Scientist

'Clever, wise, and enigmatic, Stamping Butterflies has great relevance to the times in which we live... The writing achieves a clarity most writers die trying to achieve.' Jeff VanderMeer