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The Deep
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Rivers Solomon and Daveed Diggs and William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes
manimatr0n
, October 29, 2019
I enjoyed immediately digging in to this ARC of legacies and the burden of history. This book isn't perfect, and in fact has a very "written by committee" feel to it when you first dig in. Some ideas seem half-finished, plot details that seem promising appear for an instant and scurry away just as fast, like the silvery fins of a small fish weaving in and out of view in the murky depths of the ocean. However, the deeper you dive, the clearer it becomes that such a feeling seems to be on purpose, as the main character in the book, Yetu, is herself constantly awash with half-seen glimpses and shadows of history roiling beneath the parts of her mind that make her who she is. Rivers Solomon and clipping. have done a masterful job building into the text a mechanical device to being us into the mind of Yetu, to experience her troubles and fears and anxieties from a first person perspective. The ideas of how we perceive not just ourselves, but how we perceive our peers and elders, and our worries over the expectations people place upon us, and how to keep the essence of who we are true and stable, all of this and more was not just running through my mind, but also through the pages of this book.
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The Sword & Sorcery Anthology
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Robert E. Howard and C. L. Moore and Fritz Leiber
manimatr0n
, August 22, 2014
Like most anthologies, this collection isn't one full of home runs from first to last. However, the anthology overall is one of the best I've ever read in terms of overall quality. Sure, that may be my personal predisposition to Sword & Sorcery as a genre talking, but There are some true gems in between these covers well worth reading, Like Howard's Tower of the Elephant, Moore's The Black God's Kiss, and Kiernan's The Sea Troll's Daughter. Check it out, it'll introduce you to a ton of great writers past and present who know a thing or two about outstanding adventures.
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Roadmarks
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Roger Zelazny
manimatr0n
, August 22, 2014
In under 200 pages, Roger Zelazny builds a crazy time-travel journey that not only deals with a couple heady issues like father and son relationships, but also has chapters can be read in multiple orders or skipped and still has the same outcome at the end. It's a rock-solid sci-fi and fantasy novella, and also a nifty little puzzle that lends itself to re-reads and other forms of literary exploration. And it's a quick read too!
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