The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding)

"The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) is an intense and gripping read. It is dense with ideas without ever becoming bogged down, as the narrative momentum keeps everything moving. It repays rereading to pick up the hints and clues and recurrent themes and images that the pace of the writing may sweep one past during the first read: for example, ''the rose-like designs'' of the heat-trace readings on Minnivitch when she is in black isolation, Eve's nightmare of a blood-red flower/wound splitting her foot, the rose preserved in glass on Dorner's austere desk, the ''flower of fire blazing within'' Venedra Poole. Not a comfortable book, but a compelling and thought-provoking one." - Lesley A. Hall, Strange Horizons