Christopher O'Riley Just finished reading American Monster by J.S. Breukelaar, a sci-fi novel of sentient stars, a cyborg samurai post-apocalyptic quest with a rich and multi-layered cosmology and a lot of fine and romantically visceral writing all along the way. One Horn to Rule Them All thanks to the coterie of FB sci-fi writers and artists from …
Having made my way through all of Philip K. Dick‘s novels last summer, and having finally obtained all five volumes of the comprehensive and beautifully archived Gollancz Edition (not in print anymore, Amazon associate outlets had them fairly cheap), i’m reading the whole lot of PKD’s short stories. i’d already read Vol. 5, which had …
Just finished reading a fantastic collection from Ann and Stona Fitch‘s imprint, Concord Free Press‘s Concord ePress, The Little Boy Inside and Other Stories by radiologist and writer, Glenn Gray. lots of anomalous physiological horror stories, like if Oliver Sacks was a surgeon with macabre case histories collaborated with Thomas Ligotti or Stephen Graham Jones. …
Just finished reading (in a day) Kathryn Davis’ surreal novel of one residential block and the stories and histories of the girls who grow old there amidst robots, floating scows in the sky, sense ports and post-apocalyptica. really a whole style and flavour i’ve never encountered before. lucky for all of us, she’s written another …
just finished reading John Eliot Gardiner’s impassioned retelling of J. S. BACH‘s life (mainly by an appreciation, deeply interpreted and inhabited, of a comprehensive knowledge of his liturgical music), Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. what an incredible experience. especially hearing, as soundtrack for my two-week traversal of this epochal biography, Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s supple, …
missed one. just finished reading the only one of the Jack Taylor novels i’d inadvertently missed by Ken Bruen, Headstone. people spend a lot of time comparing Ken to every other recognizable master of noir, darker than, more violent than, etc. but they’ve not had the honor to read his short works, as collected in …