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Second Calvino novel, incredible Borges influenced novel about Marco Polo’s telling of his travels and cities he frequents, some very fantastic, to Kublai Khan. Each city different from the other and representative of a deeper meaning. It becomes clearer to me why Calvino is so highly touted and lauded. If a hopeful authors wants to know what it means be a master storyteller pick up ‘Invisible Cities’. |
Recent SF/Urban/Alternative fiction novel, 2 Russians one a immortal hero who is a addict who no longer wants to be immortal, the other a former scientist turned janitor find themselves entangled with a object that opens rifts in reality bridging the world to Byelovodye a place where legends live. Great new voice in SF. |
As I mentioned many times not a huge fan of Hard Sci-fi but I read this first book in a series and found myself eager to read the sequel ‘Crossing the Line’. Yet another former StarWars writer who is writing some fantastic work currently outside the mythos. |
His first work ‘ The Land of Laughs’ was on my prior list, and is an all time classic of contemporary fantasy. Credited by Neal Gaiman for influencing Sandman, a story of Cullen James who in her Dreamworld is on a quest to find 5 magical bones. I am a big fan of Carroll and have read most of his work, and am eagerly awaiting his forthcoming ‘Glass Soup’. One constant with Carroll in all his works is the immaculate prose that gives his all his work a familiar feel and quality. |
Combines earlier Wolfe works ‘Soldier in the Mist’ and ‘Soldier of Arete’, historical fantasy that is an absolute must for any Wolfe fan, which is synonymous with being a fan of superior works of fiction. The title character, Latro, a mercenary who is hit on the head by that leaves him with a condition makes him forget things after 12 hours, while at the same time granting him the ability to talk to the divine/dead. As one who is familiar with Wolfe would know the incredible possibilities as his disposal with such a character as characters comes back into Latro’s life under different names is utterly fascinating. Obviously it incredible it’s Wolfe, if you reading Guy Gavriel Kay and think he is the master of historical fantasy I would point you to the correct path with Wolfe, which is no knock on Kay whose work I admire as well, however even his respected position in the genre is far from Wolfe’s loft perch. |
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Truth be told I’m no a big fan of Barker but this will be the first of 2 Barker efforts on this list. More fantasy than horror the revolves around the Seerkind who have bound there world into a rug to hide fro ma world destroy Scrouge. The Rug is called the weave and has since been kept by Guardian. The last of the last of the Guardians perishes, and Cal falls into the weave and with an ancestor of the last Guardian Suzannah strive to keep it away from Immaculota and Shadwell, one who wants to sale it the other who wants to destroy it and the Seerkind. |
Fantasy story about a man who has a gift for making a copy of anyone appear at anytime. Take that the title of the story, and use your imagination. Well, it’s also of course more than that, as Michael Blasco also summons some rather unique historical figures, and oh yeah...he’s gay. |
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Kirsten, the first interview at FBS, a delightful person, who even if not so would find a place on this list. The city of Ashamoil is utterly brilliant, the prose exceptional and at times beautiful. Incredible character studies with Gwynn and Raule. Without speaking to her one can see the M. John Harrison, and Michael Moorcock influences. A surreal, baroque work, one of the genre’s best new voices, I am definitely anticipating more from the multi-talented Bishop. |
Absolutely stunning achievement in fiction. On of the books you walk away from thinking for a moment that it is perhaps the best novel you have ever read. While not ready to make that proclamation, I definitely consider this one of the best novels I have ever read. The story of Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven in South Africa serving as a doctor at a British concentration camp writes a series of 12 letters sending back a chess piece with each, none of the letters telling nothing of his experiences but of stories of the land of Antipodesm where the pieces aided him in his adventures. |
One of the masters of sword/sorcery Fantasy with his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Lankhmar adventures (noted in my first list), this is a collection of 18 of his New Weird pulp tales. |
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