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Hannu Rajaniemi is from Finland and now lives in Scotland. He has a PhD in String Theory. He was the most successful debut SF novelist of recent years. He has given TED talks and continues to work as a scientist. His fiction has been published to great acclaim in many countries.
This is not a run of the mill tale of rogue agents, secrets and danger but instead uses this narrative framework as a guide to explore the deeper secrets of the human heart and the power of our own mortality * TheBookBag * It reads like John Le Carre if Le Carre ate a ton of acid before writing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy * NPR * A solid and enjoyable book and does much to demonstrate Hannu Rajaniemi's versatility and potential. * SF CROWSNEST * Summerland is in its own way as persuasive as example of Rajaniemi's disciplined inventiveness as his better-known hard SF. * LOCUS * Clever, subtle and... has a rich emotional centre. * SFX MAGAZINE * A tense and twisting tale full of delightful allusions and ingenious * Ken MacLeod * With boundless imagination, Rajaniemi invents a mortal realm with a steampunk flair... Sci-fi and fantasy readers longing to immerse themselves in a fascinating new world will love exploring Summerland. * SHELF AWARENESS * A jaw-dropping, knowing, hyperintelligent yarn * Locus Magazine * An intricate and vivid world of technological and spiritual wonder. * KIRKUS * Engaging writing, tight plotting and fantastic imagination. * Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing * A beautifully written, well realised supernatural spy thriller, John le Carre as a ghost story. * Gavin G Smith, author of The Bastard Legion * One of SF's leading lights. * SFX MAGAZINE * I burned through it in two days. Great book: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spook. [on SUMMERLAND] * Ian McDonald * An excellent slice of genre-bending fiction that thrills and intrigues in equal measure. * SCIFINOW * Summerland: As if Alfred Hitchcock had made a movie with HP Lovecraft . . . A vision so original it deserves its own subgenre. And all worked out with the diamond-hard logic of a great SF writer. After Summerland, the thriller has a new geometry * Stephen Baxter * Eerily plausible, beautifully pitched on the cusp between wonder and horror, and thoroughly engrossing from the first page to the last * Alastair Reynolds * Calls to mind John Le Carre . . . clever, subtle and . . . has a rich emotional centre * SFX MAGAZINE * He's switched subgenres while retaining his trademark conceptual high jinks and impressive world-building... an impressive plot reminiscent of John le Carre. * GUARDIAN *
