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Allan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Allan Dyen-Shapiro
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| I am a huge fan of Saunders' short stories, but I wasn't so thrilled with Lincoln in the Bardo. Okay, and old man musing about death--I get it. He does the same here, just much better. There is a structure to the book, a progression, a point--not jus ...more | |
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| When this collection was published in 2009, I imagine it was important. It claimed to reveal a continuation of the New Wave project of merging science fiction with literary fiction, stemming from 1973 to its publication. Today, in the age of Black Mi ...more | |
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I've read a lot of Adam-Troy Castro's stories, but most of these were ones I hadn't seen before, so it earns the title designation of rarities. No story was without some return for the reader, but my three favorites were as follows: 1) "Genesis for Dy ...more |
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| I am a huge fan of Pynchon's work, and as such, anything he writes is something I'm going to read. This one has all the elements of what I enjoy in his work: blurring the borders between giant conspiracies and random coincidence, fun wordplay, silly ...more | |
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| I have enjoyed everything I have read by DeLillo. I was curious to see how he would take the sort of complex world, interconnected with threads that are not quite conspiracies from novels like Underworld and apply it to the JFK assassination. I wasn' ...more | |
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| I picked this up at WorldCon, expecting that with Nick Mamatas as anthologist (I'd read a previous anthology he'd edited and thought it terrific), this would have a lot of speculative fiction. It had a little but much more of it was straightforward c ...more | |
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| Castro's oeuvre is expansive; it's hard to keep up with everything he writes. This new collection has some gems in it I hadn't seen previously. My favorite: the second story, "The Monkey Trap." Although the journey through this unusual bookstore from ...more | |
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| Had I read these stories as they came out, I would have said that K.G. Anderson is dark. Few stories have anything resembling a happy ending. The two commenting on end-of-life issues in light of government/Pharma/insurance assaults on seniors focus o ...more | |
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| The premise of this book was terrific. The world's oceans have collapsed to the point that they consist mostly of jellyfish, seaweed, and plastic. Waste including birth control pills and other sources of human hormones and compounds with hormone-like ...more | |
