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I like existential, cosmic, surreal, or body horror, as well as limited fantasy, speculative fiction, non-fiction etc etc.
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Daniel started reading The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore
The most acclaimed writer in comics history, Alan Moore, joins his late mentor Steve Moore …
Daniel finished reading Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks
Excession (Culture, #5) by Iain M. Banks
Excession is a 1996 science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the fifth in the Culture …
Daniel finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Quick but fun
Daniel reviewed A manual for cleaning women by Lucia Berlin
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) …
Stayed with me
4 stars
Years later, images from these stories have stayed with me: a terrified girl helping her grandfather pull out all his teeth, ER doctors and their kind voices, the little injured jockey who speaks no English, bad smells that smell good.
Daniel reviewed Nineteen Seventy-seven by David Peace
David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's …
The men are upset the women are suffering
2 stars
A lukewarm James Ellroy imitation wherein we spend 300 pages with two deeply unpleasant men as they supposedly try to solve murders and assaults but instead commit their own litany of shitty acts. And then they have the audacity to be upset that other men are doing nasty things to these same women.
Was a fan of the miniseries but honestly maybe I ought not to have been.
Daniel reviewed Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm
Rereading some of the stories
Content warning Short story summaries
Lena
Accidentally becoming an AWS vm image.
If you are reading this
What if a civilisation sent us a message and we mostly missed it?
The frame by frame
When corporate espionage meets self-driving cars.
The Difference
I’d fail the Turing test
gorge
Whoops we woke up the hungry nanofungus planet
cripes does anyone remember
Classic creepy pasta idea based on the Google graveyard of social medias
Driver
Sequel to Lena, about the need to manage all these worker brains.
I don’t know, Timmy
That creepy moment you realise you aren’t the simulating universe but the simulated.
A powerful culture
They built a pipeline through our planet. Humans, eh?
Valuable humans in transit
In which the grey hoo actually, maybe, saves most of humanity.
Daniel finished reading Valuable Humans in Transit by qntm
Daniel wants to read Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at …
Recommended by a friend
Daniel reviewed How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
Hoarders Season 7
3 stars
Good clean fun. The main characters are mildly insufferable and there are a few beats where they make egregiously silly choices that happens to suit the plot, but the slow escalation of horror mixed with plausible family conflict is a solid mix.
Daniel finished reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
A little plot-driven, that forces the characters to make some inexplicable choices, but overall a fun little horror/family drama.
Daniel started reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with …
Very odd, interesting approach
It's a maths book that's also a Steiner book. I want to own a physical copy
Daniel reviewed Noctuary by Thomas Ligotti
Only read Tsalal
I borrowed this from the Internet Archive to look up the Tsalal story.. it was just fine. I haven't read any of the others.
