Levy, Roger
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1955- ) UK dentist and author whose Reckless Sleep sequence, comprising Reckless Sleep (2000) and Dark Heavens (2003), depicts a deeply depressed far Near Future UK Dystopia in a state of imminent collapse whose population escapes all this, plus a succession of natural Disasters, via Virtual Reality constructs that are themselves, it seems, poisonous; in the second volume, the picture darkens through the dubious promise on the part of the untrustworthy authorities of a literal escape (see Religion) with the aid of assisted Suicide. Icarus (2006) is a singleton set on a mining planet beset by deadly radiation (see Colonization of Other Worlds), where the Discovery of an ancient Spaceship leads to some hope that humanity may survive the experience of the stars.
The Rig (2018) demonstrates no lightening of Levy's strait understanding of the values of Religion or the capitalist state; the tale, set in a star system after the death of Earth (see End of the World), describes the rise to power of its two unseemly protagonists, and their attempt to game a new quasi-religion known as AfterLife, according to the promises of which the dead will rise out of storage if their previously recorded lives win popularity contests. [JC]
Roger Levy
born United Kingdom: 14 May 1955
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Reckless Sleep
- Reckless Sleep (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000) [Reckless Sleep: hb/Chris Moore]
- Dark Heavens (London: Gollancz, 2003) [Reckless Sleep: hb/Larry Rostant]
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