I like existential, cosmic, surreal, or body horror, as well as limited fantasy, speculative fiction, non-fiction etc etc.
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Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
Just read The Trains, a fascinating, and fascinatingly abrupt, story about two women rucking through a "Quiet Valley" cut through by a train line.
The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set …
Kind of wraps up a little abruptly but the journey is plenty interesting
Prescient, and likely to be prescient, sadly.
This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, and heretical physicist, who took …
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
I've enjoyed this but I've lost my appetite for it. I'll come back later.
Bit of an odd story, this. We, the readers, are expected to infer a number of facts which the narrators never themselves understand, and tie together a story from two broken halves. Maybe not entirely successful but a really interesting effort.
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New …
Achingly sad
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the everyday world is …
Harry Dresden is less awful to spend time with than he was in book 3.
Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard PI. Turns out the everyday world is …
I'm giving Harry another go from a personal recommendation. He's certainly less of a dickhead in this novel so far.
I'm giving Harry another go from a personal recommendation. He's certainly less of a dickhead in this novel so far.
Recommended to me as a history of Fijian colonialisation
IMMOLATION by Kristi DeMeester. Being the daughter of a forgotten goddess seems like a tough beat.
IMMOLATION by Kristi DeMeester. Being the daughter of a forgotten goddess seems like a tough beat.
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
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Only managed to read a couple.
Read Buttercup's Baby to my partner, to mixed gratitude.
Read Buttercup's Baby to my partner, to mixed gratitude.
Lowland Sea by Suzu Mckee Charnas is quite a grimly satisfying modern riff on Poe's mask of the red death. The Horrid Glory of its Wings by Elizabeth Bear is about a girl and a harpy and manages pathos without sentimentality. Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan is delicious, rich poetic language and the story of the men who stole the selkies to be their wives, and the boys who loved their mams.
Lowland Sea by Suzu Mckee Charnas is quite a grimly satisfying modern riff on Poe's mask of the red death. The Horrid Glory of its Wings by Elizabeth Bear is about a girl and a harpy and manages pathos without sentimentality. Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan is delicious, rich poetic language and the story of the men who stole the selkies to be their wives, and the boys who loved their mams.
