by Daryl Gregory
A unique world... a compelling main character... and a story that goes meta. I loved it! Unfortunately there were also several points where I really had no idea what was going on, and then would wait through an "intermission" scene to find out... only to have the story continue like nothing had happ...
This book is deeply weird--and I thought absolutely amazing. Did I say weird? This is set in an alternate universe where demonic possession has been wrecking havoc since the 1940s. There are certain "strains" or archetypes that keep showing up. Like the "Captain"--a berserking solider of superhuman ...
What if possession was an epidemic? What if the same demons kept taking people over for short intervals, over and over? What would they be? Are they demons? Is the cause religious or scientific? And what would it do to you to be one of the possessed?These are the central questions of Pandemonium, wh...
3.5 stars really...My first foray into Daryl Gregory who I was really excited to get to know as an author - all the descriptions of his books sound exactly like the sort of thing I like...And I wasn't wrong. The premise of "Pandemonium" is great - I loved the idea of the random possessions and my fa...
Fine, I guess I have to go read VALIS. And probably something by van Vogt.
Despite the title, this is science fiction not horror. More precisely it is alternative history, The setting is our world but with significant changes. Eisenhower was killed, The American armed forces are stuck in Kashmir and, most important, around 1944 there is a rash of demonic possessions that c...
I promise some thoughts soon, but I recommend--it's a kick.I never came back to this. But it's lingered in my head, so much so that I quickly grabbed his new one... and it's made me rethink my rating, upward.
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