New Review! August's Book-A-Day meme is on my blog. Today's prompt is a book that has a memorable first line: http://tinyurl.com/kbdv9h5 Post-Apocalyptic New Weird Bizarro-ness.
Some good and some middling stories in this set of stories about people who were famous and what if they took different paths in their lives. Interesting but sometimes I think they tried too hard.
Includes a story about the Trickster: "He was sitting in a waiting room with other god's from different religions, Buddha,Christ and so on. He was tricking them out of existence. It was part of a fantasy anthology."
Valley of Day-Glo is the story of Broadway Danny Rose, a member of a confused Iroquois nation that has forgone traditional names for names ripped off IMBD. Except, they’re not getting them off IMDB, because that doesn’t exist anymore, you know, with the bizarre ecological apocalypse that has destroy...
Overall, I have to say this collection was a bit of let down. A good portion of the stories were boring and predictable. Even "The Sword of Herkales" one could see coming a world away.I couldn't get though about 4-5, and one of the ones I got though, "The Arrows of Godly Pleasure", I really didn't...
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