Shadow Twin

✍ Scribed by Dozois, Gardner; Martin, George R R; Abraham, Daniel

• Book ID: 107274073
• Publisher: Subterranean Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Shadow Twin" is a finely crafted science-fiction novel that was started in the mid-1970s by Gardner Dozois. A few years later, Dozois passed the unfinished manuscript on to George R.R. Martin to complete -- but while both writers agreed the story had promise, neither could work up the initiative to finish it. Over the next 20-some years, the story languished in a creative limbo between them; both worked on it now and again, but neither could or would finish it. Then, in 2002, young turk Daniel Abraham got his mitts on it and finally polished the thing off. Whew! An especially nice thing about this novel is that it doesn't read like a story assembled piecemeal over the course of three decades. Nor does it read like the work of three writers with their own voices and styles. "Shadow Twin" is a short science-fiction novel that packs a punch and leaves you thinking, and the three authors involved deserve kudos for a successful -- if long delayed -- collaboration.