All the Colours of Darkness started with an apparent murder-suicide involving a pair of gay lovers. That which looked pretty straightforward initially, soon began to take twists and turns that made the ride quite a lot of fun. Biggle went for fun-pulp at this point and abandoned the more serious side of science fiction. The disappointment is only that he seemed perfectly capable of giving us something that could explore the effects of a new technology on us and then abandoned that mission. Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL24606349M Openlibrary_edition Jan, discovers that the people that have "disappeared" were in fact the same people over and over, using elaborate disguises and false identifications. As he follows one of these mysterious persons down the transmitter's walkway, he dives in at the same time the person goes through, only to find himself on the moon, and the person he followed is more than a person wearing a disguise. He finds himself confronting a small group of aliens bent on stopping mankind's discovery of transmitting matter instantaneously, as that is the first step to interstellar travel, and they have determined that mankind is too immature to join the galactic community.

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Similarly, I think he is trying to go for a hyper-observant effect by choosing irrelevant crap and then describing it in completely excessive detail. Arnold went to the table, lowered himself cautiously onto a folding chair—at least two of those in the room had been known to collapse upon slight provocation—and reached for a telephone. Alright, so I seem to have a bit of a problem with how mystery writers talk about coffee, but damn it, NO ONE would say that. Especially when it's ANOTHER cup, so the guest knows what kind of bloody coffee they are getting. I suppose I should just be grateful that it wasn't "another cup of freeze-dried Tesco Gold Medium-Blend coffee, mixed with hot water from the Tefal kettle in my MFI kitchen, and stirred with a spoon that is slightly bent because I use it to open tins of Tate & Lyle's golden syrup".

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What can I say about this one? Obviously I love Alan Banks but this book was not up to par with the others in the series. If it’s a police procedural I am usually absorbed with the action, the crime scene crew and resulting investigation. But this time Robinson brought a spy element into the story; MI-5 gets involved on the fringes of the investigation as one of their agents was murdered. Children find a man's body hanging from a tree in a local beauty spot. It seems like a simple and tragic case of suicide but it turns out to be far from simple when the man's lover is also found dead, apparently murdered at home. At first it seems like a murder followed by suicide perhaps sparked by sexual jealousy but neither Banks nor DI Annie Cabbot are convinced that this is the whole story and some information from the murdered man's mother leads Banks to think there could be more wide ranging ramifications to the case. That makes it unanimous, he said as he hung up. Those were our controls. Three X-7-Rs. Now we try the X-8-Rs. He glanced at the setup, found a dial out of position, and moved over to correct it. Newark, he said.

This is a frightening and convoluted story involving smoke and mirrors and people who are definitely not what they seem to be. It also involves a personal crisis for Banks where once again his work has and adverse effect on his private life. When Darzek exits a teleport gate at the other end, he finds himself in a low-gravity setting - and in a room with thin, wide, 8-foot-tall aliens. They want to be kept a secret and don't intend to let him leave. He destroys some of their equipment in an adjacent room - which causes a large explosion. He wakes up bandaged up all over. Initially, they won't tell him much because of their code of honor. Over time, he convinces them that their rules justify telling him more. He learns that the explosion has left them with a limited air supply and unable to send requests for more, so they have accepted that to keep to their code they must simply wait until the air runs out and die. He also learns that they are there to prevent humans from traveling to other planets because humans are "dark." Darzek eventually convinces some of them to try a plan that may save them.

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That said I really enjoyed the deceptively straightforward style of Peter Robinson's storytelling. While it's all in the third person, he cleverly posits the reader into the mindset of the chief protagonist in each section of the story. Sometimes with humour, sometimes with cynicism and often with a keen sense of mystery. Because Yorkshire is Banks' home base, it makes for a dramatic contrast between the innate picturesque beauty of the county and the tough underbelly of the people who live on the housing estates outside the tourist towns, many struggling with the high crime rate and inclement weather.