09-27-2016, 01:12 PM
I don't know anything about this guy, but he seems to be famous and has won some awards. I found this on the new SF shelf in the library, and later noticed that Recycle Books had none of his books, which could mean he's popular or not at all.
Anyway this was a book of short stories and almost all of them were good. One (Goblin Lake) had appeared in the recent anthology by Gaiman and Sorrentino (Stories). Two of the longest were weak and seemed more like exercises in world-building than good stories, but the other pieces were strong. Some were more fantasy, some more SF, but all clever. A couple of them dealt with love and were touching, which is unusual in either genre in my experience.
Anyway this was a book of short stories and almost all of them were good. One (Goblin Lake) had appeared in the recent anthology by Gaiman and Sorrentino (Stories). Two of the longest were weak and seemed more like exercises in world-building than good stories, but the other pieces were strong. Some were more fantasy, some more SF, but all clever. A couple of them dealt with love and were touching, which is unusual in either genre in my experience.
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