Roger Levy
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​I write science fiction. My novels are Reckless Sleep, Dark Heavens, Icarus (all published by Gollancz), and my latest is The Rig (Titan 2018)


                                                  Reviews

The Rig

"An outstanding SF novel. . .rockets along, never predictable (several last-minute revelations . . .)" (Locus Online) locusmag.com/2018/05/paul-di-filippo-reviews-the-rig-by-roger-levy/
​"Roger Levy's The Rig is one of the finest British science fiction novels ever published."  (Risingshadow.net) www.risingshadow.net/articles/reviews/851-review-the-rig-by-roger-levy
"A haunting novel. . . breathlessly paced and thoughtful (often in the same chapter), world-weary but stubbornly optimistic. . .possibly one of the most intriguing works of science fiction you’ll encounter this year." (Barnes and Noble book blog)
www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/the-rig-is-a-sci-fi-novel-about-connections/
"Pieces slowly shift and slide into place to present us with an overarching picture that is as breathtaking as that cover. . .raises terrific questions of power, technology and omniscience. . ." (Thefrumiousconsortium.net)
www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2018/05/12/the-rig-by-roger-levy/
"This masterpiece of gritty science fiction has all the hallmarks of a fantastic sci-fi movie.. (Signalhorizon.com)
www.signalhorizon.com/single-post/2018/05/18/5-Science-Fiction-Books-That-Should-Be-Made-Into-Movies-Right-Now


Icarus

"An impressively solid, hyper real novel about greed, corruption and violence, and surviving the near impossible" (SFX)
"A good, propulsive tale. . . and is at times really sadistic (Levy is a dentist)" (The Telegraph)
"Roger Levy's ability as a world builder was apparent in his previous novels, and it's on display in this one as well" (SF Site)
"An 'sf writer's sf writer' … unafraid to demonstrate his command of the genre's architecture" (Vector)

                                                  Icarus was shortlisted for BSFA Best Novel 2006



Dark Heavens

"A tightly plotted page-turner, well up to the standard of its predecessor and and once again combining state-of-the-art sleuthing with a convincing picture of a high-tech society slipping into chaos" (Tribune)
"Dark and gripping, challenging and suspenseful, this fine novel is a worthy followup to Levy's impressive debut, and should help establish him as one of the more original voices in British SF" (SF Site)
"As strong a sf voice as any writing in Britain today" (Vector)


Reckless Sleep

"A superbly confident work by a new novelist" (SF Site)
​"A fast moving, streetwise, intensely paranoid SF thriller" (David Langford)

"The plot twists and turns. . . the atmosphere inside the ‘game’ and back in London is genuinely menacing" (Concatenation)


                                                                                   A small true story
I first saw the Spanish edition of Reckless Sleep some time after its publication, when I was in a bookshop in Spain. There was an author photo inside the front flap, except that it didn't seem like me at all. I tried to work out when it could have been taken, because of course it had to be me. It took me a second or two to accept that it really wasn't a photo of me.
Someone had, I assumed, found a photo of a Roger Levy online and used it. I wonder if that Roger Levy ever came across a copy of the book, picked it up, thought, 'Hey, how weird, some other guy with the same name as me wrote a book,' and opened it and found a photo of himself. Would he, for a fraction of a moment, have wondered if he actually might have written it, just as I, for that moment, had tried to persuade myself that his photo was of me?
​And Reckless Sleep (as much of my work) is concerned with reality and truth. Do we believe our own eyes? Can we trust our memories?
A curious extra is that I later told this story to a friend, an academic and writer. He replied that he'd once been at a conference about identity, and the speaker, a man called XX, mentioned that he was often mistaken for a writer of the same name, whereupon a man stood up in the audience and said, 'I am XX.'
Reckless Sleep

A superbly confident work by a new novelist. (SF Site)
A fast moving, streetwise, intensely paranoid SF thriller (David Langford)
The plot twists and turns. . . the atmosphere inside the ‘game’ and back in London is genuinely menacing. (Concatenation)
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