Charlie Cochet – The Auspicious Troubles of Chance
Charlie Cochet’s debut The Auspicious Troubles of Chance teaches the reader something about the unshakable grandeur of true love.
Category: book reviews
China Miéville – Embassytown
Words have fascinating and destructive power in this new “weird fiction” novel.
Cusco Bizarro: Muéstrame el Ombligo
When I picked up a copy of Bizarre Cusco: Show me the Navel, I had no idea what I was picking up. For one, this doesn’t look like your typical travel guide. The cover gave me the feeling I was picking up a book on the new wave of Cusco art.
Dan Wells – I am Not a Serial Killer
John Wayne Cleaver is not a serial killer… but he’s obsessed with them. Plagued by sociopathic tendencies, he finds himself both fascinated by their history and worried he might follow in their footsteps.
David Thomson – Suspects (1985)
Classic film characters cross over into each others’ stories in this bleak look at American dreams.
Diana McLellan – The Girls – Sappho Goes to Hollywood
Author Diana McLellan – a writer for the Washington Post, hence… journalist? – states that Garbo and Dietrich met on set of The Joyless Street and that they had a fling that ended so bad that it would define the rest of their lives.
Elizabeth Hand – Chip Crockett’s Christmas Carol
In time for the holiday season, here’s a novella about a man who doesn’t like Christmas, but must face childhood memories and child-raising realities over the holidays.
Elizabeth Hand – Wylding Hall
Windhollow Faire, an acid-folk group recovering from the suicide of their lead singer, spends the summer of 1972 at an old English estate called Wylding Hall. Their stay will produce both a timeless album and an eerie, enduring mystery.
Enki Bilal – The Nikopol Trilogy
Set in 2023, this trilogy follows the return of Nikopol, who after spending 30 years orbiting the earth finds France under fascist rule after two nuclear wars. The result? It’s a cold, scary world out there with aliens, deformed human beings, and total chaos.
