Caitlín R. Kiernan
Autor von The Drowning Girl
Über den Autor
Hinweis zur Begriffsklärung:
(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Reihen
Werke von Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Yellow Book 21 Exemplare
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
False/Starts II 14 Exemplare
The Aubergine Alphabet (A Fourth Primer) 13 Exemplare
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 Exemplare
Refugees 9 Exemplare
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 Exemplare
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 7 Exemplare
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 7 Exemplare
The Chartreuse Alphabet (A Fifth Primer) 6 Exemplare
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 Exemplare
False Starts 5 Exemplare
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 Exemplare
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 Exemplare
Sanderlings 5 Exemplare
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 Exemplare
Tidal Forces 3 Exemplare
The Belated Burial 3 Exemplare
Persephone 3 Exemplare
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 Exemplare
As Red As Red 3 Exemplare
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 Exemplare
The Melusine (1898) [Short story] 3 Exemplare
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 Exemplare
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 Exemplare
On the Road to Jefferson 3 Exemplare
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 Exemplare
Riding the White Bull {short story} 3 Exemplare
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 Exemplare
La Peau Verte 3 Exemplare
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 Exemplare
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 Exemplare
The Pearl Diver 2 Exemplare
The Maltese Unicorn 2 Exemplare
A Redress For Andromeda 2 Exemplare
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 Exemplare
The Drowned Geologist 2 Exemplare
Giants in the Earth 2 Exemplare
Galápagos 2 Exemplare
Masques and Hedgehogs (The Dreaming #45) 2 Exemplare
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 Exemplare
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 Exemplare
Study for "Estate" 2 Exemplare
The Bone's Prayer 2 Exemplare
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 Exemplare
Escape Artist 2 Exemplare
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 Exemplare
Ode To Katan Amano 2 Exemplare
Onion 2 Exemplare
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection 2 Exemplare
Bast: Eternity Game 2 Exemplare
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 Exemplar
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 Exemplar
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 Exemplar
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 Exemplar
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 Exemplar
False Starts 1 Exemplar
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 Exemplar
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 Exemplar
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 Exemplar
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 Exemplar
The King of Birds 1 Exemplar
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 Exemplar
Random Thoughts Before A Fatal Crash 1 Exemplar
On The Reef 1 Exemplar
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings 1 Exemplar
The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean 1 Exemplar
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) 1 Exemplar
Two Worlds and in Between [story] 1 Exemplar
Sirenia digest 1 Exemplar
Scary Monsters (The Dreaming #48) 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 Exemplar
Alabaster Volume 2: Grimmer Tales 1 Exemplar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 Exemplar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 Exemplar
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 Exemplar
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 Exemplar
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 Exemplar
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 Exemplar
Bainbridge 1 Exemplar
Standing Water 1 Exemplar
Alabaster [short story] 1 Exemplar
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) 1 Exemplar
In The Water Works 1 Exemplar
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 Exemplar
Pony 1 Exemplar
Houses Under the Sea [short story] 1 Exemplar
Bela's Plot 1 Exemplar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 10 [201], October 2022, Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun 1 Exemplar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 19, No. 2 [208], May 2023. A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizzareness 1 Exemplar
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 Exemplar
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 Exemplar
Estate 1 Exemplar
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 Exemplar
So Runs the World Away 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Nachwort, einige Ausgaben — 598 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Mitwirkender — 530 Exemplare
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Mitwirkender — 432 Exemplare
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Mitwirkender — 267 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Mitwirkender — 265 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Mitwirkender — 241 Exemplare
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 139 Exemplare
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) — Mitwirkender — 87 Exemplare
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 54 Exemplare
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Mitwirkender — 45 Exemplare
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Mitwirkender — 44 Exemplare
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Andere Namen
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Geburtstag
- 1964-05-26
- Geschlecht
- genderfluid
- Nationalität
- Ireland (birth)
USA - Land (für Karte)
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Dublin, Ireland
- Wohnorte
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Berufe
- paleontologist
writer - Agent
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (September 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (Mai 2021)
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I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
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