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Liminal States

von Zack Parsons

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Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML: *"An awe-inspiring, helter-skelter journey through mind-blowing SF, western dime novel, noir mystery, and near-future dystopian horror" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).* The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and twenty-first-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined�??and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history. It's a remarkable mashup that "somehow manages to become a cohesive, thought-provoking whole . . . There's no way a novel with this many moving parts should hold together, but it does, and even readers initially daunted by the jumble will soon be glad to go wherever Parsons takes them" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). "Parsons's debut is a tour-de-force, a justifiably showy demonstration of the author's chameleon-like ability to write in several genres all at once, and it emerges as one of the scariest and bleakest tales I can remember." �??Cory Doctoro… (mehr)

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The sum is much greater than the individual parts which are a crap western, a so-so noir detective story and an OK sci-fi - all threaded with a horror story. The idea bringing them all together is however fantastic and elevates the book far above its constituent parts. (

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Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |

What the heck did I just read? (

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kaitlynn_g | Dec 13, 2020 |

Very interesting concept that evokes [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1261866457p2/3389.jpg]'s [b:The Gunslinger|43615|The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)|Stephen King|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309288354s/43615.jpg|46575] series. And that may be its weakness too; because to be as epic in scope as this book attempts to be, it needs to feel deeper than it ultimately is.

By the end of the book, it didn't feel as though I 'got' whatever it was that the author was trying to convey. Still not a bad story and worth a read. (

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Skybalon | Mar 19, 2020 |

This was such a frustrating read, though most of that is because of my disconnect with the narrator. James Patrick Cronin is, I'm sure, a lovely man, but his even and unhurried pace and tone felt so at odds with the tone of the story. There were segments of the story that were written as machine-written transcripts, but JPC carried that impersonal tone throughout the novel.

Also, there was an element introduced at about the halfway mark of the book, The Type 1's, Type 2's, and Type 3's. Mr Parsons makes no obvious attempt to explain it, and I was left wondering until about the 90% mark how the hell people could tell them apart, when it finally clicked for me: The Type 1's are the Gideons, Type 2's are the Warrens, and Type 3's are the Hollys. This would have made WAAAAY more sense if I hadn't walked into that second half thinking that dozens or hundreds of people had been given access to the Pool, which is what that whole "tell the world we've found the secret to immortality, tell folks they can be young forever" speech in '73 led me to think was gonna happen. I didn't realize that despite that reveal, those three were still the only ones to enter the Pool.

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DNF'D twice (

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Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML:

"An awe-inspiring, helter-skelter journey through mind-blowing SF, western dime novel, noir mystery, and near-future dystopian horror" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and twenty-first-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined�??and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history.

It's a remarkable mashup that "somehow manages to become a cohesive, thought-provoking whole . . . There's no way a novel with this many moving parts should hold together, but it does, and even readers initially daunted by the jumble will soon be glad to go wherever Parsons takes them" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

"Parsons's debut is a tour-de-force, a justifiably showy demonstration of the author's chameleon-like ability to write in several genres all at once, and it emerges as one of the scariest and bleakest tales I can remember." �??Cory Doctoro

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