Chad Gayle is a writer of speculative fiction who lives in New York.
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Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that …
The author and the characters from the Pooh books engage in dialogue elucidating the Taoist principle of Te, the Way …
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published …
As near perfect a book as ever there was.
I look forward to reading it again.
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the …
Christina Henry: Alice (2015)
"A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...In a warren of crumbling buildings and …
Hype, hype, hype, hype...you'd think this novel was the second coming of Christ. Not only is it not nearly as clever as you've been led to believe, it's about as original as an episode of Law and Order. There's one fairly well drawn character who's also a stereotype, the jaded "I could have been a contender" writer of literary fiction who can't give up on his dream of being famous, and I confess that stomping around in this guy's dreary, sadsack world for the first fifty pages did keep me entertained. After that, I progressively lost interest as The Plot became more and more about...plot.
Anyway, all power to Goodreads and its ability to sell books. We're not worthy!
Andrew Blake is found in a space capsule on a distant planet and is brought back to an unfamiliar Earth, …
Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his …
Jirel of Joiry is a collection of five fantasy stories by C. L. Moore, often characterized as sword and sorcery. …
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide …
This went on a little too long and was a bit too convoluted for my tastes (and it was predictable, in terms of the whodunit). I didn't hate it but after being blown away by Vargas' The Chalk Circle Man, which I absolutely loved and may reread, it was hard not to be disappointed by the sluggish pacing and red herrings of This Poison Will Remain.
