Roil – Trent Jamieson
Angry Robot Books, 2011
432 pages
RRP: US$7.99
ISBN: 978 0 85766 184 5

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Roil is set in a dystopian world where the Roil, an evil force thriving on darkness and heat, is advancing. It is told from multiple perspectives, centring around Margaret Penn, daughter of Engineers in Tate in the south, and David, son of one of the politicians of Mirrlees to the north. Those who enjoy harrowing apocalyptic stories will enjoy Roil, although at times I found it a little too dark for my taste.

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Managing Death – Trent Jamieson (Death Works #2)
Hachette Orbit, 2010
368 pages
RRP: AU$19.99
ISBN: 9780733624841

Reviewed by Liz Grzyb

Managing Death is the second in Jamieson’s Death Works series (the first, Death Most Definite, came out earlier in the year). Like the first, Managing Death is a fast-paced, thrilling adventure through the trials and tribuations of being responsible for streamlining Australia’s deaths. This story continues to show what happens when Steven de Selby takes over as Australia’s Regional Manager after a schism and the deaths of many of Australia’s Pomps in the first novel. Unfortunately things aren’t always fair in business and war; he barely gets his footing when Mortmax is threatened from another angle.

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Death Most Definite (Death Works #1) – Trent Jamieson
Orbit Hachette Livre, 2010
374 pages
RRP: AU$19.99
ISBN: 978-073-362483-4

Review by Liz Grzyb

Brisbane has certainly been producing some awesome SF writers, and Trent Jamieson is most definitely one of them. Ticon4.com has published short fiction from Jamieson before, so we were eagerly awaiting his first novel. Death Most Definite does not disappoint. It’s a pacy, gritty chase through our world and the underworld.

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Trent Jamieson

The Prosperity Act needed good people. Not everyone could handle the work. Not everyone could kill children.

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