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If you're an aficionado of mystery novels or Japanese fiction, you probably know about Yokomizo Seisho. I'm not, so I didn't, but I enjoyed his first novel 'The Honjin Murders' (1946) enormously.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ca6360f3-71d0-40ce-8222-e9face17c4a4
#crimefiction #mystery #yokomizoseisho #thehonjinmurders #books #bookstodon
Just read Interzone 299 (2 years late). All great, as always, but especially ’The Clockwork Heart of Heaven’ by Roby Davies, a wonderful kind of Moorcock/Borges fantasia
#books #sf #sciencefiction #shortstories #interzone @INTERZONE
Winner of the Le Guin prize, 'It Lasts For Ever And Then It's Over' by Anne de Marcken is an incredibly beautiful book. To say anything else would be a spoiler, so just read it.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/32dd79ed-92fb-467b-a185-8068827d8248
#sffh #ursulakleguinprize #itlastsforeverandthenitsover #books #bookstodon #annedemarcken
If you ever thought you knew how much harm international finance does, it's probably worse. Nicholas Shaxson's 'The Finance Curse' lays it all out.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/16c70d47-9ca6-4136-899e-b0a4b96cec7a
#finance #capitalism #nicholasshaxson #thefinancecurse #books #bookstodon
I've just read Stephen King's 'The Running Man' for… reasons. It's very much of its time, but also an exemplary essay in the craft of thrillering.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/620d044f-efba-4518-b45d-f555af61e56d
#sf #sciencefiction #stephenking #richardbachman #therunningman #books #bookstodon
Finally read the rebooted English-language Metal Hurlant #2 (I've had #3 on the shelf for a while!) Gorgeously psychedelic SF and fantasy comics that treat the medium like poetry: linger over every frame and don't try to pin the meaning down…
I loved every story, but of the reprinted classics it was Phillippe Druillet's 'Gail' that took the biscuit for me, and of the new pieces it was 'The Olene Flower' by Aurélie Crop.
'Red Sands' by Caroline Eden is an unusually beautiful book, full of perceptive travel writing and tasty recipes from Central Asia.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6f68bc17-61a4-4832-aac8-266ae0702d7c
#food #recipes #travel #centralasia #redsands #books #bookstodon #carolineeden
I really enjoyed 'Cast Long Shadows' by Cat Hellisen—a tense fantasy novel of court politics and women's lives in a quasi-medieval setting.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4fa99467-dd6d-469b-9a06-8b06ae507ced
'Count Brass' is the last of Michael Moorcock's disavowed 'Tale of The Eternal Champion' series, in which the Hero with a Thousand Faces meets its mystical Apocalypse. It's pretty loosely written, but entertaining and thought-provoking.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f179d609-805f-4be2-81b5-3c7f7945cca4
#fantasy #eternalchampion #michaelmoorcock #books #bookstodon
'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan is a wonderful wordless comic, that uses surreal fantasy worldbuilding to explore the immigrant experience. He's an incredible artist and it's a thing of great beauty.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/190068de-b91d-4b68-b03f-24723e33285f
#comics #illustration #books #bookstodon #shauntan #thearrival
