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Daniel Polansky
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A City Dreaming Out Now
Friends! Would you believe it or not, I have a new book out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... It's called A City Dreaming, and it's a ramble through an impossible New York, courtesy of a fast talking lush who prefers quiet beer bars to world saving. It's strange, it's funny, you could do a lot worse. Take a look!
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Low Town (Low Town, #1)
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2011
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The Builders
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2015
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Tomorrow, the Killing (Low Town, #2)
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2012
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She Who Waits (Low Town, #3)
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2013
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Those Above (The Empty Throne, #1)
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2015
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A City Dreaming
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2016
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Those Below (The Empty Throne #2)
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2016
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The Seventh Perfection
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2020
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A Drink Before We Die
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2014
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Tomorrow's Children
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2024
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| In an alternate history where Byzantium expanded to the Atlantic (is it alternate history when magic exists, or is that just fantasy?) a rogues gallery tries to keep England free. Probably one of the better fantasy books (I'm going to go with that) I ...more | |
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| A non-chronological, mythologized retelling of Nicaragua's bloody dictatorships. Fucking fabulous. Lurid, lyrical, bloody, fierce. Definitely a Bolano precursor, with lots of long monologues about tragic past misdeeds interrupted by really exact desc ...more | |
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| A venal businessman considers his past crimes and current hypocrisies when his daughter goes briefly missing. Another of Shanbhag's introspective near noirs, incisively contemplating the yawning spiritual void at the heart of India's rising middle cl ...more | |
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| An unassuming woman and mediocre witch struggles with her brilliant, monstrous daughters and their equally horrifying grandmother, although really that suggests somewhat more plot than undergirds this existential nightmare of a novel. NDiaye is Dosto ...more | |
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| Chiang specializes in a form of science-fiction in which character and narrative are sublimated towards the vigorous consideration of a specific impossible qualification – what if the comsogenic conception of the ancient Israelites was true, what if ...more | |
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| A unit of Germans fighting on behalf of Bonaparte in Spain find themselves massacred in this stunningly wrought masterwork of a novel. I am going to try and write more about Perutz at some point so I won't write further except that I literally stoppe ...more | |
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| Impossible fantasies evoking extremely human concerns. These are lighter than the Petrushevskaya's I've read, with less of the Gothic flourishes which characterize those works. Which, honestly, I kind of missed, but once I got over that I started to ...more | |
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| I am pretty well on record that I think Gene Wolfe is a genius, but you would have to admit he isn't really interested in telling stories in the conventional sense so much as he is setting up really elaborate riddles. Basic narrative conventions are ...more | |
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| A masterful suite of novellas about identity, 'humanness' and two planets in a distant solar system in some unknowable future. Each of the three somewhat interlinked stories are written in radically different styles, showcasing the extent of the auth ...more | |
“It’s a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn’t proud to be it.”
― Tomorrow, the Killing
― Tomorrow, the Killing
“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
“The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
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Tracey the Lizard Queen
Dec 05, 2014 11:34AM
Thanks for accepting! Very excited for Those Above!
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Tabitha wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!"
Wonderful to hear! I'm getting my brother in law who is dep..."
That's all great news...thanks!
Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!
Tabitha wrote: "Daniel! I won - I won! I will be reading it as soon as it arrives. Glad you decided to join Goodreads! Now add more books mister so we can cyber stalk your shelves - that is what its all about!"Ha - I'll do my best! Hope you like the book!
When did Nikola Tesla become the person that really stoned people want to ramble about at parties?
Shellie (Layers of Thought) wrote: "Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!"Thanks! Happy to be here!
Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!