Well, after less than 24 hours I've finished the thing, and except for a brief run raround the uni for admin reasons this morning it's been pretty much non stop.

Deffinately a good read, though I wish the ending had been a litle more conclusive.

Oh, ---- and for anyone thinking of reading this the Lots! of violence isn't a joke, ----- and I mean reeeeeealy serious gore here.

I even found a few scenes moderately disturbing myself, and I have a pretty strong stomach for blood and guts.

I'd deffinately suggest caution on this one, ---- probably even worse than Scot Sigler's other stuff I think.

Ouch, that would be worrying.

I really neede to either remember my password or just reregister on scot sigler's site so that I can pick up his newer stuff.

The gore in infected actually almost verged on the ludicrous in places I thought, though the self-mutilation was just plane scary. In a way that was part of the fascination. I would really like a sequal though, sinse answering the questions about the parasites just didn't go anywhere. While I know earthcore Ii is in the works, it seemed that the first book actually pretty much gave you ll the explanation, not really leaving much for a sequal to do in a way.

I've heard the promo of the prologue of earthcore Ii in his Bloodcast season, and that did indeed seem to be the plot, and I do remember the hints about the other mountain with cave drawing.

The only thing is, there weren't really any extra questions about the aliens from Earthcore which i was wondering about, and the mystery factor of what was actually going on in earthcore seemed one of the main drives for the plot I thought.

Stil, we'll see if Scot Sigler can pull anything different out of his brain for the sequal.

Thus far I've only concentrated on his completed stuff, rather than his episodic stuff, ----- which probably isn't quite as clever, hence why I've only now just finished infected.

Scot Sigler Scifi does indeed sound nice. He does mention the Rukie, but the write up suggested that was a bit to americano-centric, ie, about American football to really be worth reading for people in other countries not familiar with the sport.

Presumably Nocternal etc has links on his blog page?

Btw Cx2, I don't know if you were a fan of Knightmare, the 80's and 90's itv game show with graphics, and a team guiding a dungeoneer through various rooms and D&D esque dungeon puzles, but there's some interesting fan stuff for that, ----- including game books etc, and a rather cool audio drama series (I think the fellow who plays Lord Fear is dead on, though traigard just seems far too gruff imho).

I think looking at the fan forum, an audio engine to create a new playable knightmare audiogame would go down very well with the fans, ---- but that probably would require it's own thread.

anyhow, you can find said audio series at http://www.kmramdram.co.uk/ Though of course knowing the knightmare characters and some of the world does actually help.

cool, I'll check out nocturnal. I was a knightmare fan from about the age of 6 onwards, and watched all of it, apparently it was the most watched thing on challenge, which wasn't surprising given the level of acting.

My first thought reguarding pickle is stil the one I had at about the age of eight when I first saw him, ------ my God he reminds me of golum! Obviously lacking the insanity, but the creepiness is deffinately there.

Yes, it's one of those things that's so fascinatingly horrific you just can't drag yourself away, lol!

I've just started on Klango, and happen to notice that none of Scot Siglers stuff is in the catalogue, the problem is if I introduce that to the catalogue, people will think i'm some amazingly sick, blood and pain crazy psyco!

One serious point though, I actually thought the gore in several sigler novels was getting to a level where it ceased to be grittily realistic and went into the realmst of splatter fest commic.

By the end of infected there were bits i was having trouble taking completely seriously.

While as I said, gore is never a put off in books for me (unlike certain other things), I did rather think Sigler had gone out of his way to be overly shocking in places.