Stories Book Virgin Books Down 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Related Stories Quotes Overview Released Tuesday, September 2, 1997 Written by Lawrence Miles Pages 311 Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Tyler's Folly Synopsis Mankind expects pain. However it seems to outsiders. Tyler's Folly: a colony world on the unattractive side of Earthspace, a planet wracked by earthquakes and crawling with off-world bodysnatchers. When the local authorities pull a bedraggled Professor Bernice Summerfield out of the ocean in an off-limits 'quake zone, they naturally want to know what she is doing there... but the professor can only mumble something about woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. According to Bernice, the planet is hollow, its interior inhabited by warring tribes of cavemen and strangely unconvincing prehistoric monsters. Some dark and ancient god rules this underground kingdom -- albeit a dark and ancient god with a penchant for thirties pulp adventures and Saturday morning action serials. Can Bernice's claims be true? Is Tyler's Folly really under threat from an ageless subterranean horror? And why does so much of her story revolve around the utterly amoral alien known as !X...? Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Bernice Summerfield !X How to read Down: Books Down Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 26 August 2024 · 187 words Review by ankarstian This was real. This world of monsters and impossibilities. It felt hard, dangerous, solid. Everything else, the soft and safe things she'd grown up with in the worldsphere, suddenly seemed as vague as holograms or old memories. And !X… !X was the realest thing of all. This is one of the best novels featuring Bernice Summerfield, in league with even Love and War. Though on the surface, this seems to be a simple story of an expedition into an Inner World but Miles give a lot of postmodernist depth and breadth to the tale. It is by turns comedic, haunting, and fascinating. It has some of the best-written characters and a fascinating plot filled with thought-provoking twists. The worlds of Tyler's Folly is one of the most memorable within Benny's adventures if not within the DW canon. This novel also serves as a good introduction to the People to those who haven't read Aaronovitch's The Also People (which I have not yet). In conclusion, a very good introduction to Benny's solo adventures and an extremely good novel in general. Like Liked 0 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating68 members 3.56 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating68 votes 3.56 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating1 votes 3.50 / 5 Member Statistics Read 15 Favourited 1 Reviewed 1 Saved 1 Skipped 1 Owned 0 Related Stories Virgin New Adventures The Also People Rating: 4.13 Story Skipped Book Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Virgin Books Set of Stories: Virgin New Adventures Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote
