Defenders

"More people should be reading Will McIntosh."-- "Tor.com" ""Love Minus Eighty" is a book that makes me envious as a writer: a clever premise, brilliantly executed. More importantly, though, it's a book that thrilled and delighted me as a reader, chilling and touching at the same time, a great story that stimulates the mind, the heart and the nerves." "Charles Yu, the author of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe""" "How do we keep on connecting in our ever-growing maze of social technologies? How can love succeed in the techno-surround we've trapped ourselves in? These are the questions Will McIntosh explores in this tightly plotted tangle of love stories. The stirring result casts a clear and knowing eye on our current society, from the best viewpoint of all: the future." ""New York Times" bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson on "Love Minus Eighty""" "This is speculative fiction at its most personal and powerful, extrapolating current social and technological trends and exploring how they would affect future people... Intriguing, quirky, perversely charming and definitely affecting." ""Kirkus Reviews" (Starred Review) on "Love Minus Eighty""" "More people should be reading Will McIntosh." ""Tor.com""" "Grimly plausible... this SF romance is a fine piece of work." "SFX on "Love Minus Eighty""" "Credible, compelling, and relentless ...the best and most disturbing moments will stay with the reader for a long time." ""Locus, "on "Soft Apocalypse""" "What makes "Defenders" such an incredible novel is McIntosh's pure elegance, the beauty of its simplicity. Each element of the novel, the characters, the situations, the world, the results of the world's actions, organically feed into each other as the novel progresses." ""SFFWorld""" "An emotional story of love, loyalty, and forgiveness amid the stark realities of war." Booklist" "McIntosh tells a more global yet still deeply personal tale about life during wartime and its aftermath... McIntosh has his finger on the pulse, again." Kirkus (starred review)" "McIntosh's novels often blend unlikely scenarios and genre tropes in ways that make you rethink them. Here he's brought together the classic veterans' "coming home" story with telepathic alien invasion and issues around what it means to have been genetically engineered for one purpose. It's a posthuman scenario that McIntosh is exploring in all its messy complexity." io9.com" "This military science fiction novel offers fast paced action." Publishers Weekly" "What makes Defenders such an incredible novel is McIntosh's pure elegance, the beauty of its simplicity. Each element of the novel, the characters, the situations, the world, the results of the world's actions, organically feed into each other as the novel progresses." SFFWorld" "McIntosh is without a doubt one of the most underrated science fiction authors writing today. Defenders is an emotional, action-packed story....McIntosh's cautionary near-future tale, told from multiple perspectives, serves as a brutally honest portrayal of how humans carelessly exploit, destroy - and in this case create - other species." RT Book Reviews (Top Pick)"