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Lädt ... Meet Me in the Moon Room: Stories (2001)von Ray Vukcevich
New Weird Fiction (49) Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A large collection of short surrealist fiction - not my usual taste, but there are some interesting things in here. My favorites were "Finally Fruit," about a woman who becomes a monster; "Pretending," about a group of atheists who decide to pretend that one of their group is a ghost, and "Whisper," a pretty classic creepypasta-ish story about a guy who tape records himself sleeping to prove he doesn't snore and catches something else. I liked this a lot. The publisher, Small Beer Press, was having a before-Christmas sale and this one looked interesting, even though I don’t read a lot of “fantastic literature” or whatever the genre of this is. Some stories were too strange for me (which is my way of saying that I didn’t understand them) but overall this is one of those books that you read and it fills you with gratitude. I laughed out loud a lot, which is hard to do this time of year especially. So thank you, Mr. Vukcevich, and when you get a moment please write some more short stories. I returned my library copy when I ordered my own from the publisher; I just had to have it. I only give it five stars, because I can't give it six.Folks might get scared off by the collection's description of being "surreal," but it's still very accessible--the cover illustration is definitely appropos. There were two stories that might have been a little on the too-surreal side, but the "The Finger" more than made up for them both. The best story of them all, "White Guys in Space" is absolutely brilliant as a multi-layered cultural commentary that's thinly disguised as a piece of mysogynistic 50s sci-fi pulp shlock.I was drawn to it because of the brevity of the stories, but I noticed that these were different from the tightly-written-to-the-point-of-breaking microfiction/flash fiction stories I've been reading lately. These were short, short stories that really were precisely as long as they needed to be. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Fiction.
Literature.
Science Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML: Philip K. Dick Award finalist Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling??frequently managing to be both??these short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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For the most part I didn't find much emotional connection, the tales were mostly about stuff happening and the exploration of quirky ideas. If there had been some more emotion or feeling or humanity them I would have given more stars. ( )