In Griz we experience the dawning of consciousness in a member of a specially created subhuman workforce; Maeve, the child in On the Wall, familiar enough with the constraints of the real world discovers that fantasy is not an easy route; the woman in Space Invaders has to protect herself and her home against invading aliens but have they really landed and are they really the enemy? Each character is in some way an outsider and stands at the boundary of change. Whether placed solidly in the world as we know it or in a fantasy future, the barriers between reality and illusion are never secure. The two merge dangerously into one another and the reader is inescapably drawn into this world and in the process discovers an exciting and important new writer of fiction.
