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A tale of good and evil, where neither is what it seems! Aiden Fleischer, a bookish priest, finds himself transported to an alien world. With him is Miss Clarissa Stark, a crippled hunchback of exceptional ability, wronged by an aristocrat and cast out from society.
On the planet Ptallaya, under two bright yellow suns, they encounter the Yatsill, a race of enthusiastic mimics who shape their society after impressions picked up from Clarissa's mind. Creating a faux London, the alien creatures enroll Clarissa in their Council of Magicians and Aiden in the City Guard. But why does the peaceful city require guards? After a day that, in earthly terms, has lasted for months, the answer comes, for on this planet without night, a red sun also rises, and brings with it a destructive evil. The Blood Gods! Hideous creatures, they cause Aiden to confront his own internal darkness while trying to protect his friend and his new home.
With a sharp eye for period detail and a rich imagination, Mark Hodder establishes a weirdly twisted version of Victorian London on a convincingly realized alien world, and employs them to tackle a profound psychological and moral question. A Red Sun Also Rises breaks new ground by combining the sword-and-planet genre with Victorian steampunk while adding an edgy psychological twist.
- Sales Rank: #91967 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-12-04
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 566 minutes
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
An interesting experiment in fantastic Victoriana from Hodder
By Jvstin
Aiden Fleischer is a 19th century priest who has wound up in his profession almost by accident as much as by design. When he is united with Clarissa Stark, a deformed hunchback possessing a strong mind and a boundless capacity despite her limitations, her inspiration and a cruel change in fortune leads the pair to leave the confines of England for the South Pacific in a missionary capacity.
Little does the pair know that the journey to the South Pacific island of Koluwai is only the beginning of their travels. Little does either of them suspect that they will soon travel much further, to an alien world. Their very presence there will influence the impressionable inhabitants, and both will have to deal with the consequences of that influence, and those who would upset the balance not only on the planet Ptallaya, but back on Earth, too...
A Red Sun Also Rises is the newest book from Mark Hodder, best known for his Victorian Steampunk trilogy starting with The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack. Here, though, we have something in its own way more complex than those works. In A Red Sun Also Rises, Mark Hodder sets out to write a piece of Fantastic Victoriana, to write a book that is entirely in keeping within the conventions of fantasy and science fiction novels of the period.
The novel rises, and falls on the execution of that premise. The novel is written in an authentic and immersive 19th century style and conventions. The foreword of the novel, a letter from Hodder to the reader, assures us that the text of the novel is adapted from a journal kept by the narrator. Readers of H. Rider Haggard's She or Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars (or viewers of the movie John Carter) are familiar with this very common trope of Victorian and Edwardian fiction. The novel continues with those stylistic conventions, straight through to an ending very keeping in line with those two works. A Red Sun Also Rises authentically conjures the illusion that you are reading a novel based on a journal from a 19th century priest, written with his authentic voice and viewpoint.
The novel works best and fulfills this premise when engaging the author's fecund imagination. The planet Ptallya is vividely described and evoked. From its strange astronomy, to its even more bizarre ecology and inhabitants, the world feels very much like Hodder's take on a Barsoom-like alienness, dialed up a notch or two. The mimicry of the Yatsill leads to a soon radically transformed landscape for Clarissa and Aiden to inhabit, a landscape that, in turn, does not remain static and placid for long. And even then, the invention does not stop there with the appearance of the ostensible antagonists, the Blood Gods. Again and again, Hodder pulls unusual and strange things on Ptallya to confront his readers and characters.
The throughline of these encounters and oddities is a deep exploration of the psychology of the main character, Aiden. The story of A Red Sun Also Rises is not only a Sword and Planet tale, but is also a study of Aiden as a character and questions of his psychology and nature. Aiden's self analysis and his fears and exploration of his very nature are real and abiding questions that fill in the interstices of the novel.
Where the novel does not live up to expectations, in my opinion, revolve around matters of characterization and pacing. This is especially true looking beyond the protagonists. The minor characters beyond Aiden and Clarissa are often chess pieces at best, and ciphers at work. It does feel in many cases that many of the characters outside the pair function as mirrors, reflections or components for the psychological study I mention above to play out against. They do not always, and in some cases, not often or ever, take on real lives of their own.
Too, the pacing of the novel, authentic to a Victorian novel, feels offputting at places. Hodder pushes events in the novel a little too hard, a little too fast for the underlying narrative. The often breakneck pacing, both in action sequences and just the flow of events kept me as a reader going forward and through the story. On the other hand, it seemed as if Hodder didn't trust his story and characters enough to allow me as a reader to linger on anything long enough before throwing a new change-up pitch into the mix. This did keep the novel from ever becoming boring or stale, at the expense of making a lot of the twists and turns losing a bit of their impact, since yet another reversal was almost always waiting in the wings.
Overall, I did enjoy the novel, and was willing to forgive its weaknesses for the sheer strength of what Hodder has attempted and achieved. With few changes, the novel could be sent through a time machine, and with little difficulty, I think, get published in turn of the century London. But I think that a fair number of readers of his earlier work, or anyone looking for authentic sword and planet novel, will enjoy it today, as well.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Terrific Steampunk/fantasy novel.
By J. Mcdonald
Mark Hodder`s name is one that appears in just about every reference book about the Steampunk genre; this was my introduction to his work and what a marvellous novel it is...
Hodder takes a very mischievous, tongue-in-cheek approach to the Steampunk elements of his tale, sending up the conventions to a degree and soft-pedalling on some of the genre's excesses. Though leavened with humour, the novel has at it`s heart a pretty serious, well thought-out plot concept - as one would expect of any good science fiction novel. He has a particular gift for description, conjuring up landscapes evoking Roger Dean-like vistas inhabited by creatures straight out of the illustrations of Frank R. Paul; that he has been able to combine such strands of fantasy with the Steampunk slant is impressive indeed, raising it above the current conventions of that genre; this is - I think - a book that should appeal to a broader base of science fiction/fantasy readers, not just the author`s Steampunk followers - which is probably Hodder`s intention - I shall have to read his Burton and Swinburne novels to make a fair judgement on that. There are little touches of satire, references that perhaps evoke Wells, Burroughs and Moorcock here and there and a rattling good adventure story into the bargain.
An entertaining, at times subtle and thought-provoking novel; well-paced, gloriously imaginative and deserving of a wide readership.
Recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Steampunk Snailmen and Blood Gods
By Wombat the Bookworm
Aidan is a settled churchman in Victorian England who finds himself running away to be a missionary, encouraged in part by his outcast companion Clarissa. They arrive in the Southern Pacific only to be whisked away to another world filled with grotesque snail-men and horrible squid-people (whom the snail men call "Blood Gods"). The snail people turn out to by psychic mimics. Within short order they adopt social structures and language patterns of Victorian England, thus propelling the book from fantasy into steampunk. A few thoughts:
- Hodder's imagination and descriptive writing are great. The early period on the alien world are particularly compelling, and the image of the world that changes when the Red Sun rises positively chills the bones.
- The pacing of the novel, though, is a bit uneven for my taste. Somewhere around the 2/3 mark, it seems like he decided he needed to finish the book and suddenly shifted into action and excitement. The result is that the civilizations and characters revealed in this last section get short shrift, narratively.
- I appreciated the moral and ethical courage our protagonist grows into, but I was less pleased with the war part that made up the last bit of the book. It felt tacked on.
- At its heart, A Red Sun Also Rises develops an environmental argument about the relationship of people to the world around them and challenges us to re-think how we understand what we've done to nature. The civilizations in the book don't know what they're doing, but the crucial failings they've created spring from their misunderstanding of the world around them. Let's hope we gain a bit more perspective than do the aliens here.
- This book reminded me of two older works. First, Edgar Wright Burrows' A Princess of Mars also includes a regular (if superlative) man being transported to a famous and strange other world where they show themselves to be capable and useful leaders whom the inhabitants of the world would be wise to follow. Second, the wraparound story recalls stories like Poe's "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," which purport to depict real--if unbelievable--events through journals or papers found mysteriously.
Overall, A Red Sun Also Rises brings a hint of Steampunk to the otherworldly adventures of a Victorian vicar and his sextant. It's a good tale, well worth reading, if a bit uneven.
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