Galax Arena

This is a difficult, highly imaginative work that leads its main characters and readers up a very long, slightly oblique, galactic path right to the amazing end. Nothing is, as it seemed and is, if anything, even more sinister than imagined. Joella, the narrator, calls it 'Blinding them with fake science'. Those blinded are street children snatched from misery, but at least possessing a kind of freedom, and duped to take part, like slaves, in a bizarre experiment. For readers with imagination and stickability - who will be well rewarded.