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Dark/Gothic Fantasy as brilliant as you can get in under 150 pages. The Divinity Student, on a mission a mission to retrieve a mysterious book dubbed “The Catalog” that contains lost words. Finding out it is destroyed he must hunt down the 12 authors of the catalog to regain the lost information. Magnificently written, spellbinding read, with some dope illustrations to boot. |
Whoa! This will require you to read a lot of great books, and that’s a good thing. First go read Jack Kerouac’s semi-classic, cult favorite ‘On the Road’ and then go brush up on your Lovecraftian Cthulhu mythos, to get ready to read Mamatas taking Jack Kerouac and his beatnik pals through the world of Cthulhu. Has become one of my all time favorite reads. |
Like I think 50% of everyone who has read this series, I picked it up due to George R.R. Martin recommending the first book ‘Bone Doll’s Twin’ on his site. A dark, epic fantasy, that doesn’t depend on an abundance of magic to carry out it’s plot (although it plays largely in the stories foundation admittedly) a story of Tobin a born female heiress who goes through the story in the form of her dead (but not really) twin brother to hide until she can reach if age to take powers fulfilling the true usurped succession and thus restoring divine aid back to the people. It sounds rather cliché and admittedly it is, but it’s well depicted by Flewelling. For fans of Flewelling’s Nightrunner series (Haven’t read it this series takes place in the same setting albeit, much earlier in it’s timeline. |
I love works that aren’t strictly written for fans just entering the genre and instead target heads of the speculative fiction, which is why Filippo will always remain one of my favorite writers. 9 Stories fueled by an introduction that brings up the though provoking question what if SF died in the 60’s. An intelligent collection of alternative history stories many chronicling in-genre personalities done by someone whose knowledge of them is not even research as much as it is love for the genre itself. Why the hell isn’t Filippo a household name? |
Legendary writer Angela Carter’s collection of reworked myths and fairytales, you might as well pick up ‘The Bloody Chamber and other stories’ by an absolute genius of a writer who if feminist readers ran the world would be elected Emperor unanimously, including Florida. |
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Me, and Trinalor (from FBS) were discussing this novel. First its worthy to note that it won the Pulitzer in 2001. 2 Jewish cousins combine to create a comic book empire, not neglecting the history of the times covered 1930’s-1950’s, interweaving real history around the story that includes an incredible study of friendship. You do not have to be a fan of comics to enjoy this beautiful written novel by Chabon, but it an extra treat for us comic book fans as Chabon references various Golden Age legends. |
Some good old-fashioned heroic sword/sorcery fantasy, pulp story, with female fighter main character by one of the most under appreciated sword/sorcery writers around. |
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This is the title of a collection by Banks of 5 stories, and is also the title of a novella as well. You can’t go wrong with either as in the collection you get the novella, as well, but if you get the novella, you can take solace that it’s one of the best SF shorts you can hope to read. Highly recommended for fans of his ‘Culture’ work. |
Silverberg is known now for the wonderful anthologies he edits both in Sf and Fantasy, and by some for his Majipoor work. ‘The World Inside’ however reminds you he is absolute master of SF. A brilliant look into a Utopian society of Earth Future of 75 million people where sex is promoted and a necessity, especially often to fulfill the goal of forever increasing the population. |
‘The Book of the Short Sun is a 3-book cycle that takes place after his ‘The Book of the Long Sun’ (which is the sequel to Wolfe’s magnum Opus ‘The Book of the New Sun’) a 4 book cycle. There really isn’t much to say, if you read ‘The Book of the New Sun’ first and enjoyed what is among the finest works of speculative fiction one can read IMHO, than reading ‘The Book of the Long Sun’ and ‘Short Sun’ is already a known must. If for some reasons you have the misfortune of having overwhelming bad taste, and did not like ‘The Book of the New Sun’ don’t read on. Something to make things easier when reading ‘The Book of the Long Sun’, it can be obtained in a two volume set called, one called ‘Litany of the Long Sun’ which contains the first 2 books, and the other ‘Epiphany of the Long Sun’ which contains the latter two. |
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