Stamping Butterflies (GOLLANCZ S.F.) - Tapa dura

¿This is a virtuoso lesson in bringing artistic unity to radically dissonant elements. It is also the novel of a writer with real heart. STAMPING BUTTERFLIES is a book written with superb technique by a writer who never forgets that technique alone is not the whole point.¿ (Roz Kaveney TIME OUT)

Turning the idea of the past determining the future upside down, this thriller takes an attempted assassination of the US President in the Seventies and an emperor awaiting his death in ancient China and creates a riveting read. (ESQUIRE)

Grimwood imbues his creations with startling psychological complexity. Marrakech is brought to vivid life, along with its inhabitants. Grimwood has produced, imago-like, an inspiring butterfly of humanity and hope from a hard shell of despair. (Eric Brown THE GUARDIAN)

Grimwood has written some of the best SF in the world over the past five years and Stamping Butterflies continues his journey to greatness. The kind of delirious head trip that leaves your brain quietly fizzing... Stamping Butterflies is proof of how SF can be both experimental and highly relevant. (SFX)

Incredibly cool, incredibly stylish, distinctly nasty in places... another dose of classic Grimwood. (ALIEN ON LINE)

A widescreen imagination and a sharp political edge. Grimwood wraps up his anger and his compassion in a wry trademark obliqueness that stabs you through from angles you don't expect. (Richard Morgan)

Stamping Butterflies is a revelation. A tapestry of narrative threads, each one slyly beautiful... With a literary ambition that puts most mainstream novels to shame. (Stephen Baxter)

Grimwood has written some of the best SF in the world over the past five
years and Stamping Butterflies continues his journey to greatness. (SFX Review of 2004)

A mature, often alarming, deep and admirable work of fiction (Adam Roberts)

'Stamping Butterflies is JCG's most ambitious novel to date, and perhaps his best... A major novel from an author who deserves to be called one of the major figures of the new British SF. (Gary Wolfe LOCUS)