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Daniel

dznz@books.theunseen.city

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

I like existential, cosmic, surreal, or body horror, as well as limited fantasy, speculative fiction, non-fiction etc etc.

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IMMOLATION by Kristi DeMeester

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IMMOLATION by Kristi DeMeester. Being the daughter of a forgotten goddess seems like a tough beat.

Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Paul Tremblay, Catherynne M. Valente, Nathan Ballingrud, Ekaterina Sedia, Kelly Link, Dale Bailey, John Langan, Holly Black, Kelley Armstrong, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Elizabeth Bear, Stewart O'Nan, Gemma Files, Lucius Shepard, Sarah Monette, Michael Shea, Michael Marshall Smith, Paula Guran, Seth Fried, Margo Lanagan, Barbara Roden, Peter Straub, Nadia Bulkin, Suzy McKee Charnas, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Kurt Dinan, Steve Rasnic Tem, John Mantooth, Holly Phillips, Peter Atkins, Maura McHugh, Gary McMahon, Steve Duffy, Marc Laidlaw, Gerard Houarner, Robert Davies, Deborah Biancotti: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 (Prime Books) No rating

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.

Iain M. Banks: The Algebraist (Paperback, 2005, Orbit)

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars.

Seconded to a …

Got suckered into trying Spotify premium audio books but they want more money to add enough minutes so this'll be my last time using that "service"

finished reading Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (Book three of The Dresden files)

Jim Butcher: Grave Peril (Paperback, 2001, Roc)

Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's …

Trash. Can't believe this has been this popular and influential. Dresden is a lecherous buffoon and I'm not convinced that Butcher is much better. And as hardboiled fiction it sucks, the equivalent of a fedora over a Hawaiian shirt.