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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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I remember enjoying the first few chapters of MD too.
Netflix messing with my mind again. What if no one could sleep? Madness, madness, madness! https://youtu.be/8n5cdPRMPiw
I’m 15% into the Fisherman and it’s rather sad. The main characters are widowers, relatively young widowers. It helps to think of them as Timothy Olyphant and Jared Padalecki.
I’m halfway through From the Wreck, it’s weird. It has that crazy intergalactic beginning that is kind of like The Host but mostly reminds me of The Key of Ahknaton. Intelligent trans-dimensional octopus meets a guy and decides to secretly follow him home and hang out with his family. There had better be a point of a Big Bang of some kind.
Red Shirts! I keep meaning to read that, maybe this year.
The sex change thing sounds horrific. Portman is as welcome to be Thor as Claire Danes was in Terminator. Oh lord that sounds awful. Marvel has done well making quality, layer, action movies that still register at PG13 or less. Dr. Strange light horror sounds ok to me. And yes I will be watching Black Window the second it comes out. Like Canavan, I too had stopped going to the theaters for anything less than big budget action and that may or may not change. I guess I appreciate what I took for granted.
Now for another topic: Shadow & Bone Sucks!!!
It’s everything I hate about YA. I couldn’t even make it two full episodes - Alina is an ungrateful whinny bitch. She got all of her unit killed just so she could hang out with not-boyfriend. When Darkling rescued her, did she say thank you? Nope, she bitched. Was she grateful for everything, hell anything? NOPE! Her codependent ass just wants her not-boyfriend. She is a shit role model. She’s that melodramatic rich blonde girl in high school that read Romeo and Juliet and decided that was totally about her super difficult life. It’s also quite disturbing if you replace the word Grisha with Jew.
Marvel just put their big foot down and said movies are back, I believe them. Plus I went to see Mortal Kombat, again.https://youtu.be/TziAh7O9iLw
D - I liked that Victorian Horror reference, it fits. A bit of the mad wife upstairs...
The Star Surgeon’s Apprentice by Alastair Reynolds ★★★½☆
A hopeful story about a good man who signed up to a cybernetic surgeon to escape a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, his coworkers are evil but that does not mean he will give up on his patients.
Half pervy half funny!
The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald DNFNo no no no no piss drinking.
I envy your devotion Tyler. I have book ADD, my “Currently Reading” stands at 26, and that’s a lie. It’s more. I jump in, get to thirty or fifty percent, and then want a different mood/vibe/book.
Just started From the Wreck as scribd won’t give me The Fisherman for another few days.
Life can be shockingly rude that way. I am still working my way through the Starry Rift and will request this book from my library in a few days. Should be ready to go by the 15th. Always good to see enthusiasm for a book! Also, check out Merfolk May guys!
Oh definitely give Lucifer another shot.
Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1933) H.P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price ★★★½☆
Even in the depths of his most esoteric fantasies, Lovecraft reaches through time to speak to the outcasts among us, to the pained and confused souls looking for meaning. This is why he endures.
A sequel to The Silver Key, we learn what happened when Randolph Carter disappeared into his dreamworlds. We are told of his endless journeys and the gift of knowledge that, once received, nearly drove him mad. Like Arthur C. Clarke’s Star Child, only frightening. Through drugs and will Carter made the journey home but he’s no longer human. Outcast always...
Sundiver Day by Kathleen Ann Goonan ★½☆☆☆ I disliked the way the story was written but the world building kept me hanging on. I wish I had DNF’d, nothing interesting happens, it’s just a story of a young teen dealing with death.
The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)★★★★☆
Lovecraft’s very first, and possibly only, female baddie. Don’t expect a red-eyed ingénue in a dark cloak, oh no, this is a proper Lovecraftian monster: horrible to behold, speaking solely through blasphemous actions.
The only thing Lovecraft finds sexy is fear. He wants your screams of madness:
“The vague shrieking and roaring waxed louder and louder, as if approaching some monstrous climax of utterly unendurable intensity.” Whoa.
What I find frightening are the hints of the real crimes being covered up by legends. The dead child’s mother knew he was endangered.
“Her friend Pete Stowacki would not help because he wanted the child out of the way.”
That sounds like her lover was tired of the extra mouth to feed. Maybe he did something about it.
Lovecraft describes the witches’ Black God as an obsidian tall, lean humanoid “without the slightest sign of negroid features.” But witnesses to the kidnapping are eager to vow they saw a “huge robed negro.”
The combination of real and fantastic evil is chilling.
“This fusion of dream and reality was too much to bear.”
