The Nature of Balance [Mass Market Paperback]

Tim Lebbon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2001

One morning the world does not wake up. Millions lie dead in their beds, victims of their own dreams of falling. There are survivors . . . but the world they emerge into is changing rapidly. Humanity is no longer the dominant species. Now, Nature has the upper hand.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books; X edition (October 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843949260
• ISBN-13: 978-0843949261
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,016,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been published for ten years now, and you can find out loads about me at my website www.timlebbon.net. I'm the author of over thirty books, including the Noreela series of fantasy books (Dusk, Dawn, Fallen and The Island), the NY Times Bestselling novelisation of the movie 30 Days of Night, and several books with Christopher Golden, including The Map of Moments and the forthcoming Secret Journeys of Jack London for Harper. I've also written several screenplays and some TV proposals. I've won several prestigious awards, and some of my work has been optioned for the big screen.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For too long, Mankind has taken advantage of Nature..., August 7, 2004

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DanD - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nature of Balance (Mass Market Paperback)

Now, Nature is about to strike back.

It happens in the form of horrible nightmares--hiddeous "falling" dreams, which kill off most of humanity in a single night. Those who survived where either asleep, managed to wake themselves up in time, or landed on a snowbank.

But the survivors now find themselves stranded in a new, dangerous world. Blane, a man always in tune with Nature, feels he holds a secret to what happened...Holly, a hard and rugged woman, is determined to survive...Paul, a Nature lover all his life, finds himself bewildered by the sudden change of plans...Peer, a young woman with an inner strength, knows that she too has a large role in this new future...Mary, once a victim, now rises up to power through violence...and Fay, a striking woman with a hideous secret, is the very imbodiment of evil itself...

Tim Lebbon has woven an incredible thriller. Eccentric and macabre, yes, but it is still a great horror/sci-fi thriller. "The Nature of Balance" is a fun, thrilling read about humanity's mistreatment of Nature, and what would happen if Nature tired of it...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unnatural selection, January 12, 2004

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bonsai chicken (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nature of Balance (Mass Market Paperback)

A world dreams of falling and does not wake up. People everywhere lie broken and bloody in their beds, as if assaulted by some unseen, deadly force. A handful of survivors find themselves fighting against a wild world whose mutations have ceased to follow any kind of normal evolutionary path. At the center of it all is Blane, a man with no memory of his past, a man who has always felt most at home in the forest but now finds it has rejected him; and Fay, a mad force of nature bound in human form and bent on hideous revenge.

It may seem like just another end-of-the-world story (or is it a beginning?) at first but Lebbon looks at the situations on a deeply personal level and takes them in surprising directions. It is very much a character driven story. You will care about these people -- even the bad ones.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Stand meets The Birds, July 20, 2003

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William M Miller (Bronxville, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nature of Balance (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed this book, my first experience with Tim Lebbon. It took a while to get into the story, but it was interesting enough for me to finish it. The big problems were the lack of character development and the overwritten style of his descriptions. He takes a full page to describe what should be only be a paragraph. By doing this, I constantly got pulled out of the story. What brought me back? The villian. I love a powerful antagonist that seems on track to conquer our hero, and this novel made up a few points in that area. Those two complaints aside, I had a fun time with it and I look forward to Mr. Lebbon's new book, "Face".