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Catnip For People Who Love the End of the World

Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan

December 7, 2022 by anana 2 Comments

I’m drawn to climate catastrophe and dystopian novels the same way some people are drawn to horror or crime stories: seeing fictional representations of my worst fears are somehow calming to me. Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan was compared to Station Eleven and Severence on its Goodread page, so I put it in my library queue figuring it would basically be like catnip for me.  Walk the Vanished Earth is difficult to describe, because it encompasses so much: seven generations, two planets, 200 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: apocalyptic, Erin Swan, Speculative Fiction

anana's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: apocalyptic, Erin Swan, Speculative Fiction ·
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Let Down…But Not Disappointed?

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

November 11, 2022 by Jake 2 Comments

Have you ever read a book that was super hyped and thought it was…good but not as good as advertised? And you weren’t disappointed you read it but it still didn’t match the exaltations from others? Cloud Atlas is such a book for me. I appreciated what it was trying to do; I definitely got the 2666 vibes and 2666 is one of my favorite books of all-time so that’s a good thing. I like how it looked at the scope of history and the human experience. I like the […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, Speculative Fiction

Jake's CBR14 Review No:197 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, Speculative Fiction ·
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October 2022 Leftovers

Batman: The Impostor by Mattson Tomlin

The Son by Jo Nesbø

Killer Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury

The Devil's Wedding Ring by Vidar Sundstøl

November 1, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy belated Halloween to all who observe! Again, I don’t have as many leftovers as I did in recent months since I’m logging so many full reviews for the Book Bingo. But here’s what I got, all of them quality 4-star reads…   Batman: The Impostor Really enjoyed this one. A fresh take, helped by the fact that Batman is surrounded by characters with no history. Jim Gordon is off the force. Alfred has forsaken him (or vice versa). No Joker, no Riddler, Penguin functions […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Batman, comic book, crime, Graphic Novel, hard case crime, Jo Nesbo, Killer Come Back to Me, Mattson Tomlin, mystery, nordic noir, Norway, occult, oslo, Ray Bradbury, short stories, Speculative Fiction, The Devil's Wedding Ring, the son, thriller, Vidar Sundstøl

Jake's CBR14 Review No:194 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Batman, comic book, crime, Graphic Novel, hard case crime, Jo Nesbo, Killer Come Back to Me, Mattson Tomlin, mystery, nordic noir, Norway, occult, oslo, Ray Bradbury, short stories, Speculative Fiction, The Devil's Wedding Ring, the son, thriller, Vidar Sundstøl ·
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A Visit With An Old Friend You’ve Outgrown a Little

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

October 12, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Bodies (dead bodies, aliens inhabiting human bodies, people going from cyberspace into a body for the first time, etc.) I was obsessed with Neil Gaiman’s work from high school through college and then burned out and haven’t read anything by him in probably 10 years, so when I saw this in the bookstore I initially didn’t think I was going to get it. But when I picked it up and started reading the first story, I remembered that I liked that one, and it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr14bingo, horror, Neil Gaiman, short story collection, Speculative Fiction

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:96 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr14bingo, horror, Neil Gaiman, short story collection, Speculative Fiction ·
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Franz Kafka got together with Charles Dickens and wrote an episode of the X-Files based on Little Shop of Horrors

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

September 18, 2022 by KimMiE" 1 Comment

CBR BINGO 14: Funky: Where Steampunk meets your nightmares “The city reeked. But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.” Those two sentences, from the second paragraph of Chapter 1 of Period Street Station, captivated me: the delicious smells of a bustling market intermingling with the filth […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, China Mieville, horror, KimMiE", nightmare fuel, Speculative Fiction, steampunk

KimMiE"'s CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, China Mieville, horror, KimMiE", nightmare fuel, Speculative Fiction, steampunk ·
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Grief and Hope – the human experience

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

September 2, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – New This is going to be a difficult book to summarize because I would not consider it a novel. It’s closer to a collection of short stories, but that’s not quite right either. It’s something in between. There’s a long form improv format in which the audience sees a scene with Person A and Person B. Something in that scene sparks an idea for a scene tangentially connected between Person B and Person C. Then a connected scene between Person C and D, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, climate change, pandemic, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Speculative Fiction

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, climate change, pandemic, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Speculative Fiction ·
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