A polarizing author, he revels in proving that genres are labels, not confines. These books show just how little he is restricted by genre. And so you have a thriller which is loaded with information, and a Science Fiction story without even one of the fixings that make modern Sci-Fi. Instead of ugly, it is beauty, and in place of war, you get love.
Then again, what else is to be expected, when the aliens of the story are born into human families, and the girls are crazy about mum, and hooked on vampires? Read the start of an epic in Artificial Flowers - a story told from the point of view of a beautiful, intelligent world, with as much right to be on Earth as humans have!
Different does not even begin to describe what is to be found within this box set. Headlong is the only way to go into Hailey. Although not graphic and not explicit, it's a bit risky, the diving in, but there's no other way...