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Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

October 26, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A collection of short writing by the science fiction and horror writer Dan Simmons, this book is less a good collection, and more of a catch-all for fictional writing Dan Simmons worked on in a given time. That’s a shame because what’s good is very good and interesting, but there’s some distracting other writing here. Included in this collection are stories that are part of longer works like his novel Carrion Comfort, in which the original 50 page story (chapters 1 and 3 of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:605 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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Dan Simmons Short(er) fiction

Looking for Kelly Dahl by Dan Simmons

Ninth of Av by Dan Simmons

On K2 with Kanakaredes by Dan Simmons

The End of Gravity by Dan Simmons

October 24, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Worlds Enough and Time – Novellas This collection of novellas came out in 2002 and represents recent writing for Simmons. I think I first heard of Dan Simmons with the publication of The Terror, but it’s also possible that I read The Terror because I really like Ilium. I just don’t recall which I read first or when. Anyway, one of the things that happens when you read a lot of Dan Simmons is that he comes across as very hard to pin down in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dan simmons

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:600 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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Oh the horror! (Oh, the not horror)

Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Enderby Outside by Anthony Burgess

Katie by Michael McDowell

The Night Boat by Robert R. McCammon

Children of the Night by Dan Simmons

Blue World by Robert R. McCammon

Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon

Enderby's Dark Lady by Anthony Burgess

Bethany's Sin by Robert R. McCammon

A Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess

The Fight by Norman Mailer

October 6, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Red Pill – 3/5 This novel came out in 2019, but leads up to and ends at the 2016 US presidential race. There’s also plenty of energy connected to the Brexit vote too given that both Kunzru and his narrator are British. The novel begins with a writer being accepted into a fellowship program in Germany near the Wannsee building famous for the Wannsee Conference where Heydrich and Eichmann, among other Nazi officials, hammered out some of the details of the “Final Solution”. This, as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Burgess, dan simmons, Hari Kunzru, Michael McDowell, Norman Mailer, Robert R. McCammon

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:566 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anthony Burgess, dan simmons, Hari Kunzru, Michael McDowell, Norman Mailer, Robert R. McCammon ·
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Apocalypse Snow: The Terror, The Terror

The Terror by Dan Simmons

February 15, 2022 by Saube75013 Leave a Comment

Despite a few defaults (repetitive set pieces in the middle section, some predictable twists, probably too many characters), this tale of the ill fated expedition of the Royal Navy to the Arctic in the 1840s will be worth your time. Based on a true story (what fiction isn’t these days?) this mixes brilliantly exploration, survival and fantasy with a vivid style that will make you feel the cold, pain and suffering of the sailors who went to discover a passage to the north and found […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: Arctic, Cold, dan simmons, survival

Saube75013's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: Arctic, Cold, dan simmons, survival ·
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Tossing in a bunch at once.

The Ice Shirt by William Vollmann

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

The Rip Off by Jim Thompson

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

Why are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer

A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons

June 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Ice Shirt – 3/5 Stars I might be Viking-ed out. Between this novel, playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (which is a ton of game), and rewatching the Marvel movies (and with Loki starting up right now) this book was poorly chosen for me to read right now. But it’s a book I’ve been planning to read for 20 years and have failed to a few times, so maybe this is just my reaction to the book. The book is a kind of mixed media novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Annette Gordon-Reed, dan simmons, Jim Thompson, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, William Vollmann

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:264 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Annette Gordon-Reed, dan simmons, Jim Thompson, Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie, William Vollmann ·
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Summer of Night – Dan Simmons (1991)

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

April 23, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A book about a group of adolescents boys (and one girl) who must face down a comic supernatural horror that’s plaguing their town, killing kids, and being ignored by the adults around them. Each child experience their own tailor-made horror, which takes on multiple forms, inhabits and uses vulnerable people, holy water is used as if battery acid to melt a face, and there’s a group of very dangerous bullies also hunting them. But! It takes place in Illinois. I mean Stephen King blurbed this, […]

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vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:186 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dan simmons ·
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