ASMSG Scifi Fantasy Paranormal Emagazine March 2014 | Page 51

Review: ‘The Edge’ by
Leslie Lee and why you’ll
NEED the sequel
Ian Hutson
FIVE STARS
I hugely enjoyed ‘The Edge’ and want
more – if the sequel can’t be found
soon then I’ll start a small riot.
The author has that knack of raising the
reader’s hopes and then dashing them
and then raising them again. The text
conveys just enough detail to allow the

reader to picture the scene themselves
and the characters are all likeable
enough for the demise of almost any of
them to be emotional.
The settings range from the
claustrophobic right up to full spaceopera; from a small boy trapped in a
subterranean hell-hole through to fleets
of giant spaceships manoeuvring
around planets and hyperspace. The
main protagonist’s character contains
elements that we can all empathise with
(of being both trapped by and formed
by our past) and also has areas where I

couldn’t decide whether he was a
gobsmackingly pragmatic hero or the
scariest kind of sociopath (mass killing
How do you develop from a small boy
hiding in a wardrobe to a military man
making a gun barrel glow hot? The
same way that we all do, I suppose.
Great “hard” scifi and a great story.
Not many places where you can find
that and an emotional, playful 50′
industrial robot. Seriously, splendid
stuff.

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