Review: Way above Good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
I began reading Scavenger wondering how well a short story could draw me into the Hugh Howie’s world of Sand. It didn’t take long at all for me to forget there was any world other than the one Rush lives in and must overcome. Tim Ward does a great job, in a few words, painting for the reader what the life of a sand diver must be. Note I say “must be” rather than “might be.” Good speculative fiction draws one into a world that is totally foreign yet strangely familiar. That is why Scavenger is a cut above simply good.