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Recently, I have read:
Dead But Dreaming, an anthology of stories inspired by and building on Lovecraft's mythos. I haven't yet figured out what makes this so solid. I think the stories I like best are the ones that assume the reader is already familiar with Lovecraft's work and build on them, and I'm trying to verbalize how they do this.
Palimpsest, by Catherynne Valente, about a sexually transmitted city. What makes this one click for me is the prose. It took me a couple of weeks to read this book because I insisted on reading it all aloud.
Pandemonium, by Daryl Gregory. I don't even want to say what this book is about, because anything I could say is a spoiler. I just finished it today, and I always knew that the author knew where he was going -- but I could not predict it.
Dead But Dreaming, an anthology of stories inspired by and building on Lovecraft's mythos. I haven't yet figured out what makes this so solid. I think the stories I like best are the ones that assume the reader is already familiar with Lovecraft's work and build on them, and I'm trying to verbalize how they do this.
Palimpsest, by Catherynne Valente, about a sexually transmitted city. What makes this one click for me is the prose. It took me a couple of weeks to read this book because I insisted on reading it all aloud.
Pandemonium, by Daryl Gregory. I don't even want to say what this book is about, because anything I could say is a spoiler. I just finished it today, and I always knew that the author knew where he was going -- but I could not predict it.