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Changeling, by Delia Sherman. YA Urban Fantasy set in NYC. Right up my alley.
The Ship of Ishtar, by A. Merritt. I am tempted to say that they don't write them like that anymore, but, really, except for Merritt and, perhaps, Jack Vance, the never wrote them like this. Delightful, pulpy, and a bit disturbing when one looks at the hero's attitude.
Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright. Re-read. I'd tried to re-read it some time earlier and got bogged down. I thought it was a combination of the racism and pacing, but it turned out to be the binding. Once I picked up a hard cover copy at LaconIV, and the pages and covers weren't falling off, the pace was fine, and the racism, while noted and unfortunate, was not a deterrent to re-reading.
Three Days to Never, by Tim Powers. Classic Powers, weird and cool.
Beyond the Mountains of Madness by Charles and Janice Engan. I'm going to try running it.
I am rereading Mountains of Madness in Joshi's The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
womzilla gave to me. It's an odd collection, with 4 stories. Besides MoM, there's "The Rats in the Wall" and "Colour out of Space", two of HPL's best, and "The Dunwich Horror", which is far from his worst. I would have liked some explanation of why these four stories, though it may be at the back, as I've not yet finished the book. And, while I do like the photos Joshi throws in, often with footnotes, it'd be nice if he gave some indication of what they are photos of. I recognized Poe, and guessed about Roerich's works, but there are some where I really don't know who or what the subject of the photo is.
The Ship of Ishtar, by A. Merritt. I am tempted to say that they don't write them like that anymore, but, really, except for Merritt and, perhaps, Jack Vance, the never wrote them like this. Delightful, pulpy, and a bit disturbing when one looks at the hero's attitude.
Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright. Re-read. I'd tried to re-read it some time earlier and got bogged down. I thought it was a combination of the racism and pacing, but it turned out to be the binding. Once I picked up a hard cover copy at LaconIV, and the pages and covers weren't falling off, the pace was fine, and the racism, while noted and unfortunate, was not a deterrent to re-reading.
Three Days to Never, by Tim Powers. Classic Powers, weird and cool.
Beyond the Mountains of Madness by Charles and Janice Engan. I'm going to try running it.
I am rereading Mountains of Madness in Joshi's The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, which
womzilla gave to me. It's an odd collection, with 4 stories. Besides MoM, there's "The Rats in the Wall" and "Colour out of Space", two of HPL's best, and "The Dunwich Horror", which is far from his worst. I would have liked some explanation of why these four stories, though it may be at the back, as I've not yet finished the book. And, while I do like the photos Joshi throws in, often with footnotes, it'd be nice if he gave some indication of what they are photos of. I recognized Poe, and guessed about Roerich's works, but there are some where I really don't know who or what the subject of the photo is.