Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
by:
Sarah Monette (author)
The first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette''s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of...
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The first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette''s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outre, and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette's fiction."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781607013051 (1607013053)
ASIN: 1607013053
Publish date: November 16th 2011
Publisher: Prime Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I am a fan of Sarah Monette. At this point, I’ve read all her books save one – which I’ve got on the way to me right now. Her aesthetic resonates with me strongly.‘Draco Campestris’ – A mood piece describing a museum which displays the bones of dragons. Full of lovely and disturbing details.‘Queen o...
A frustrating collection of sf/f, with a few non-fantastic stories as well. Some are too heavy-handed, many are too short to do their ideas justice, and all too often Monette leans on technique instead of letting her (quite interesting!) worlds and characters speak for themselves. Still, there are...
Hermosa, hermosa colección de escritos variados. Historias breves, novelettes y poesía de muchos temas diversos. No conocía a la autora pero me encantó prácticamente todo en este libro. Está preciosamente escrito, las historias magníficamente desarrolladas a pesar de ser breves y los temas todos in...