This second book in the Southern Reach trilogy had the same feel as the first (which I liked a lot). But I really liked the narrator of the first (the biologist) a lot more than the narrator of this book. I thought he was quite ineffectual, although for me he redeemed himself by the end. I can...
I would highly recommend this book to readers and to libraries for their collections.The illustrations are detailed and interesting; some illustrations were used in the books discussed.This book also catalogues the costumes and art that are now part of Steampunk and also recounts some of the hist...
Nice introduction to the whole steampunk movement. I'd been aware of it as a SF subgenre for decades, but lately it seems to be everywhere. You know it's hit the mainstream when books on steampunk jewelry and the like show up at Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabrics. The book traces the roots and has se...
Podziemia Veniss to książka składająca się z dwóch części – zasadniczej powieści oraz noweli Wojna Balzaka – których akcja umiejscowiona jest w tym samym uniwersum. Czytelnikom "Podziemi Veniss" odradza się przyjmowanie podczas lektury środków halucynogennych. Nie będą potrzebne. – głosi zamieszc...
I recently went through a harvest of Listmania lists on Amazon, from those I found on the page for China Meiville's "Perdido Street Station". It seemed like a promising way to break into reading the current "New Weird" fantasy sub-genre movement, uh, thing. (New Weird. It's a fairly ambiguous ter...
This clever, sly collection of 'secret lives', lovingly illustrated by Mark Rich, is the perfect holiday gift for fans of Tim Burton, Edward Gorey and Gahan Wilson.
Guarded, still shaking off sleep and a little hungover: “Why do you ask?” “Oh,” she said sweetly, “they all have the same look about them, that’s all.” She wanted him to ask “What look is that?” Instead, he just smiled mysteriously and gave her his ...
Volume 1 THE VOLATILIZED CEILING OF BARON MUNODIRikki DucornetRikki Ducornet is one of the foremost surrealists of her generation, with short fiction appearing in dozens of literary magazines. Her critically acclaimed novels include Netsuke and The Fountains of Neptune.The museums of Europe keep ...
The Shark God Cometh A long time ago, when Dakuwaqa the Shark God was young and not so wise, he made all who lived in or near the sea fear him. They feared him for his knives that posed as teeth. They feared him for his relentlessness. They feared him for his speed. They feared him because the bl...
She likes to swim in Florida springs and has a son in college named Rob; sometimes, she thinks the two facts are related. Gayle renovated the old house she now lives in, and sometimes her family comes to visit her there. (As does Dan, her talented yet humble boyfriend.) Among her many talents are...
It was as if I traveled through the landscape with the sound of an expressive and intense aria playing in my ears. Everything was imbued with emotion, awash in it, and I was no longer a biologist but somehow the crest of a wave building and building but never crashing to shore. I saw with such ne...
Far below, .the dull blue snake of a canal. Two detectives in a boat. Slowly making their way northeast. Finch was about three hundred feet above them. Wyte was a large shadow with a white face, the boat a floating coffin. Dapple had been reduced to a kind of question mark. Not a good place to be...
Martin George R.R. Martin is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction best known for his A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy series, now the HBO original series Game of Thrones. According to myth, he began his career selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies. Sub...
At the edge of the black water, a figure squats, hunched over, hands you cannot see busy at some mysterious task. Your first impulse is to call security, but then you recognize the slight frame, the tuft of dark hair: It’s Whitby, in his brown blazer, his navy slacks, his dress shoes. Whitby, pla...