But there are people we meet in life that miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or …
“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2” (Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill) “Fray” (Joss Whedon) “Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile” (Bill Willingham) “Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love” (Bill Willingham) “Watchmen” (Alan Moore) “The Wooden Sea: A Novel” (Jonathan Carroll) “After Silence” (Jonathan Carroll) “Bones of the Moon” (Jonathan Carroll)
Do not finish reading Jonathan Carroll’s books right before bed. You won’t go to sleep easily. Not because he writes horror—although After Silence is horrifying in ways both strange and mundane—but because in the last words you read, in those final sentences before the blankness of the end-pages, you will encounter profound questions about what …
“Roo’d” (Joshua Klein) “Dagon and Other Macabre Tales” (H. P. Lovecraft, T. E. Klein, S. T. Joshi) “Metrophage (Ace Science Fiction Special, No 9)” (Richard Kadrey) “The Graveyard Book” (Neil Gaiman)
“Main Street (Signet Classics)” (Sinclair Lewis) “White Apples” (Jonathan Carroll) “The Forever War” (Joe Haldeman)
I’ve been reading a bunch of HP Lovecraft’s stories recently, plowing my way through the second of three Omnibus collections but out by Grafton Books in the mid-80s. For teen boys of a certain type—namely geeks those into science fiction and horror—Lovecraft is a name to conjure by. There is something about Lovecraft’s writing that …
These are the books that I have completed in October: “Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)” (Charlotte Brontë) “About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews” (Samuel R. Delany) “Ventus” (Karl Schroeder) “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town” (Cory Doctorow) “Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask” (Jim Munroe)
“Anathem” (Neal Stephenson) I’m currently about halfway through Stephenson’s latest book and it is an amazing, rich, thought-provoking, deeply intellectual, and engrossingly emotional novel. The kind of novel that you want to live in for a good long while. Even though I have over 400 pages to go, I’m already a bit sad that it …
“Four And Twenty Blackbirds” (Cherie Priest) Summary: Eden sees ghosts, but the three that haunt her life most are benevolent guardians killed in a tragedy long before Eden was born. When she goes on a quest to find out about the mother and father she never knew, Eden finds that her own story begins in …
Take the Earth, place it in a kind of time bubble that slows our time down to an infinitesimal crawl compared with the rest of the universe and shut out the stars and you create a world that poses a highly unique set of challenges to the characters involved. Sort of like the whole world …