Perhaps it’s fitting that I read Hannah Tennant-Moore’ essay in The Paris Review about the merits of reading literature that disgusts and repulses us. Her words helped me through Lavie Tidhar’s disturbing work, A Man Lies Dreaming. The other thing that helped me through the scenes of, for lack of a ...
How in the world can I describe this book? It's definitely the most unusual story I've read in a long time. It jumps back and forth between the dream of a man, Shomer, who is an inmate at Auschwitz, and a pulp fiction story about an alternate history in which Germany falls to the Communists rather...
An interesting idea where an experiment by a German scientist creates superheroes, just before World War II, this changes the war, but as there are superheroes on both sides they mostly cancel each other out. This is a story of one, Fogg, who is explaining his complicated history to his boss, the r...
bookshelves: spring-2015, dragons, published-2013, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Read from May 02 to 05, 2015 Description: There are kin and there are –kin. There are not many dragons, but there are many who think they are, or want to be, or claim to remember being.http://www.tor.com/stories...
This anthology is worth reading for Jim Butcher's Curses, Ellen Kushner's Duke of Riverside, Patricia Briggs' Fairy Gifts, and Melissa Marr's Guns for the Dead. Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy begins strong with a Dresden Files short story, but readers should be forewarned that many of the shor...
A large, eclectic collection of short stories that relate to fungi in one way or another. From the expected Lovecraftian-style horror, to altered states of consciousness, fairy tales and even humour - there’s a huge variety of themes on offer here.However, not every story worked for me, and I probab...
I feel like this series is developing nicely. The second book feels slightly more accomplished than the first. But two books in, isn't it about time to state clearly what's going on here? It's not a deal-breaker, because I enjoy very much this literary steampunky world, but I've stuck it out for two...
For me, the best kind of anthology is a genre-specific one. I like the novelty of ideas, the variety of subjects, and the unknown factor of what's coming next. While I do enjoy themed anthologies, I find that the subject tends to wear a bit thin by the end, and I'm always left second-guessing myself...
HebrewPunk is a collection of tales by Lavie Tidhar, tales steeped in Hebrew mysticism.I first encountered Lavie Tidhar with The Bookman and was eager to see what else he had going on. When I saw this, I was pretty excited. Then I let it sit unread for over a year. Go figure.Anyway, HebrewPunk is a ...
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