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<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve been impressed by his work ever since I read his first published story, “Clearance to Land,” back in the same 1989 issue of Pulphouse<\/i> that printed one of my own stories. I chose his “The Last Robot” as the first story in the first issue of Science Fiction Age<\/i>. I published so many installments of the zany adventures starring his inept space characters Vossoff and Nimmitz that they eventually filled a book, one for which I wrote the introduction. His zombie tale “Dead Like Me” is one of my favorite short stories. And he’s been writing book reviews for SCI FI<\/i> magazine and movie reviews for Science Fiction Weekly<\/i> for years. <\/p>\n
As you can tell, I’m a little biased toward his writing. So it might be pointless for me to talk up Emissaries from the Dead<\/i>, since you’ll just figure that I drank the Castro Kool-Aid a long time ago.<\/p>\n
But that’s not enough to stop me from saying publicly how much I enjoyed reading Adam’s new book. I was thrilled to finally be able to read him at novel length in a piece of fiction which didn’t star Spider-Man. Emissaries from the Dead<\/i> is a science-fiction thriller, always a tricky sub-genre to pull off, because it’s tough to play fair with the reader in a mystery when tomorrow’s rules are so alien to our own. But Adam managed to write a book that worked both as SF and as mystery, at the same time creating intriguing alien intelligences, building a true sense of wonder, and introducing a compelling protagonist about whom he’ll be writing future novels. <\/p>\n
Congratulations, Adam! I’m looking forward to many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m may be the world’s least trustworthy recommender for Adam-Troy Castro’s first non-franchise novel, Emissaries from the Dead, just out from Eos. I’ve been impressed by his work ever since I read his first published story, “Clearance to Land,” back in the same 1989 issue of Pulphouse that printed one of my own stories. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-12647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-troy-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12649,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12647\/revisions\/12649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}