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Book SynopsisThroughout history, stories have been told of a 'spirit creature', a many-headed snake, that appears out of nowhere, devouring animals and people. To the nomadic people of the Sahara, it was the 'Sand Devil', in Native American stories 'Llao, the spirit of the below world. The Aboriginal people of Australia had their own name for it, as did the tribes of the South African svelte who left sacrifices of goats and oxen to placate it. When a rotund lady mayoress is whisked from the stage at a village fete into a hole in the sky, it is photographed for the first time and sets off a chain of events that will rock the world.
Trade ReviewA woman is pulled into the sky by a vicious alien life form at a village fete and it is captured on camera for the first time. So here begins Joe Gillespie's third novel Exopod, and it progresses as an exhilarating voyage through consistently vivid attacks and modern science. As expected, Gillespie's narrative is rooted in the relationship between humanity and outer space, but the detail and imagination with which he writes about the elements of both ensures that the pace is unswerving and the depth at which humans interact with each other is always relatable. Exopod uses a back-to-basics and down-to-earth sensibility to create perennially intriguing and gripping reading. - Review by Jack Mckeever
