Jerrod's comments (member since Jan 06, 2009)

Jerrod's comments from the Great Novellas group.

I recently found out that In Silent Graves is the paperback edition to the Limited HC that was titled The Indifference of Heaven. Word of warning though, you must read all of Braunbecks paperback fiction before reading his new one released this month, per Braunbeck.

And I agree nancy, In Silent Graves/Indifference of Heaven was an amazing book, so far I've really enjoyed all his material.

Jigsaw Men is a great little novella. Under the premise that Frankenstein's theory worked and the martin invasion from War Of The World's is fact. Plus the British empire is whole and that is the setting, Here is a quick blurb about the book:

Detective Livingstone has been assigned to investigate the apparent abduction of Danielle, the daughter of Lord Trafalgar, British Minister for the Judiciary. The eyes of the peer, Livingstone's superiors and the press are on him. He hardly dares tell anyone that his only lead is a porn video that seems to show Danielle engaging in sexual acts with a man with six testicles -- a Jigsaw Man, one of the nation's underclass of reanimated soldiers. This unsavory clue leads Livingstone to uncover a much wider plot, one that threatens to change the face of a world in which World Wars One and Two were fought with Frankenstein's monsters and Martian Heat-Rays

x3 by Gary A Braunbeck was good. Three Sci-Fi tales all regarding some form of time travel. I would have rated it higher but I felt that he should have put another story or two; it just seemed too short.

sounds good.

D;
Would you consider this bizzaro fiction?

How are/did you like Nearly People?

He's definitley not for everyone. Weaveworld is one of his best, but I think the best I've read from him is Imagica.

If you haven't already, you should definitley read both The Hellbound Heart and Cabal by Clive Barker.

D_Davis,
we'll since you have an expanded vision of 'novella', like myself, I'll recommend The Servants by Michael Marshall Smith. It's different from his other works, which isn't allot, that I've read, but It's still an enjoyable work. It clocks in around 200 pages.

Also you might want to check out some stories by Philip K Dick, he's got some interesting short fiction, mainly sci-fi. Might be something to kill time, but I'm not sure if he would be an author you would be interest in.

D_Davis;
I agree Novellas are where it's at. A good satisfying story that doesn't involve a huge investment of time or patience. Anyway here a a few that I like, the * novella's might be harder to get and/or expensive [for the size of the book anyway:] based on small, exclusive printings.

*Nearly People by Conrad Williams
*The Scalding Rooms by Conrad Williams
Lye Street by Alan Campbell [prequel to scar night novel which is #1 in a trilogy:]
King of Souls by Brian Knight

Just a few on the brain right now anyway. Are you using a strict definition of novella? Sticking between ~50-100 pages?