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Zothique

Clark Ashton Smith

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Oct 25, 2017 Martin Christopher rated it it was ok

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After hving very much liked Hyperborea, I found Zothique to be very disappointing. The stories don't really have any plot to speak of. Pretty much every single story can be perfectly described as "a blank protagonist stumbles into a strange place, observes something weird happening without taking any actions or making any decisions, and then everyone is dead."
I am hesistant to even call them stories. It's more like flowery descriptions without plot. Often very interesting descriptions, but not s ...more

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May 31, 2015 Ben rated it it was amazing

The last Aeon of earth...

Zothique is an odd collection of short stories set in the far, far, far future. The sun is a red ember in the sky and the remaining inhabitants of the earth eke out an existence among the buried remains of countless empires before them. The gods have died and only the gods of entropy and evil remain.

You might have heard this before, but frankly this is the original. OH, technically The Night Lands, The Time Machine, even ERB's "Barsoom" technically started this genre - b ...more

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Jul 23, 2017 Esteban Guerrero rated it it was amazing

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Siendo completamente subjetivo, este es uno de los mejores libros de fantasía que he podido leer, no solo por el tono oscuro de cada una de las historias, que no lo las hace grandiosas por ser simplemente oscuras sino que la narración es sublime haciendo que cada historia destaque por si misma, a la vez que todas se siente parte de un mismo mundo, uno donde nosotros mismos podriamos crear nuestras historias.

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