Rhys Hughes
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A New Universal History of Infamy
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2004
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The Smell of Telescopes
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2000
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Nowhere Near Milkwood
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2002
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Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
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1995
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The Postmodern Mariner
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2008
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Link Arms with Toads!
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2011
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Cloud Farming in Wales
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2017
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The Astral Disruptor (Sampietro Mischief #1)
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2010
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The Phantom Festival
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2011
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Bone Idle in the Charnel House A Collection of Weird Stories
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2014
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Wonderful! Roald Dahl had a phenomenal gift for writing. He is able to make the pages turn with unstoppable momentum and the reader thinks he is merely reading fast. The prose is so smooth, almost frictionless, that it practically reads itself. This i ...more |
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I have just successfully finished reading Aldiss' most experimental novel, BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD, at the age of 56, my third attempt (the first when I was 18, the second a few years later). The first half of the book I always found excellent (but diff ...more | |
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The bleakest Simenon I have read so far? Yes, I think so, even though The Man Who Waved at Trains and The Snow was Dirty were pretty strong stuff when it comes to bleakness. But with Simenon it is always the quality of the writing, which is superb, a ...more | |
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The second volume in the 'Dan Barry' series, and I enjoyed this one more than the first. Max Brand's Westerns are strange: they seem like pulp Westerns on the surface, but they have supernatural elements and (perhaps more to the point) elements deriv ...more | |
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A tremendous novel by an author who constantly goes higher in my estimation. This is an adventure novel but done in a more literary, introspective and philosophical manner than the sort of adventure novels that were common at the time (the 1930s). It ...more | |
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I only became a proper fan of Tintin recently. True, I did read a couple of his adventures when I was young, but they didn't make such a big impression on me as they now do. They are exciting adventure stories and remind me a little of the novels of ...more | |
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My first Wodehouse novel. I have read a few of his short-stories over the years but for some unfathomable reason I never tackled one of his novels before now. Finally I have repaired this gaping chasm in my literary education... Pigs Have Wings. What ...more |
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It has taken a long time but I have finally finished this 600+ page short story collection. I started reading it three years ago (maybe even four years ago) but it's not the sort of collection I felt inclined to race through (as I might do with a boo ...more | |
“During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“The next stop is mine. You’d better follow.” “The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“All that now separated retirement from rest was a single box. The previous owner had been eager to protect its contents, using a lock carved from garlic. He picked it with a sprig of parsley and groped inside, pulling out an exact likeness of himself, a puppet double. Even his cork leg sealed the same dry white panic, judging from the way it jerked.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Welsh Literature: Rhys Hughes | 2 | 20 | Feb 01, 2009 05:34PM | |
The Next Best Boo...: Hi from Oregon | 8 | 32 | Feb 09, 2009 03:55PM | |
40k Book Club: Astral Disruption | 1 | 4 | Nov 24, 2010 05:26AM | |
Atomic Fez Publis...: An interview with Rhys Hughes, author of Twisthorn Bellow | 3 | 16 | Dec 02, 2010 08:56AM | |
40k Book Club: Paul Di Filippo: The Complete Interview (Part 2) | 1 | 9 | Dec 06, 2010 11:52AM | |
40k Book Club: #amWriting: Rhys Hughes interviews Bruce Sterling [October, 4, 2010] | 1 | 7 | May 24, 2012 07:30AM | |
SciFi and Fantasy...: Short Story Recommendations? | 31 | 106 | Jun 03, 2012 05:35AM | |
Language & Grammar: Title Trek | 561 | 244 | Mar 19, 2014 07:52AM | |
Literary Horror: Year's Best Weird Fiction edited by Simon Strantzas | 23 | 31 | Oct 25, 2016 04:48PM | |
Horror Aficionados : Track the short fiction you read in 2017 | 31 | 263 | Jan 03, 2018 11:05AM |
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