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lauraanne_gilmanI got two offerings for ya, for two very different reading-moods:
First, happy Book-Launch day to Catherynne Valente! Her new novel, Palimpsest, is out today, and it is very much a fascinating book, with praise most authors would die or kill for:
"Gorgeously written and deliriously imaginative, Palimpsest is the book for those who love old maps and grow wistful at the sound of a night train. A modern masterpiece in Valente's unique voice and singular sensibility."—Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Alchemy of Stone
“Catherynne Valente has once again proved her mastery of the fantastic. Full to the brim with beautiful images and gorgeous prose, Palimpsest belongs on the same shelf with Calvino's Invisible Cities and Winterson's The Passion. Valente is writing the smartest, gentlest, deepest work in the field, and she's good enough to do it. I remain in awe.”—Daniel Abraham, author of The Long Price Quartet
Still not decided? Here's a taste, via the story that inspired the book....
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And on the other side of the bookshelf, Anton Strout's Deader Still, the follow up to Dead to Me, is also on-sale this week. Wheee!
"It’s hard to defeat evil on a budget. Just ask Simon Canderous.
It’s been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affairs’ last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boat full of dead lawyers is found in the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometry—the ability to divine the history of an object by touching it—agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now, his workday may never end—until his life does."
And really, all I can do is quote Charlaine Harris: "Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game."
First, happy Book-Launch day to Catherynne Valente! Her new novel, Palimpsest, is out today, and it is very much a fascinating book, with praise most authors would die or kill for:
"Gorgeously written and deliriously imaginative, Palimpsest is the book for those who love old maps and grow wistful at the sound of a night train. A modern masterpiece in Valente's unique voice and singular sensibility."—Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Alchemy of Stone
“Catherynne Valente has once again proved her mastery of the fantastic. Full to the brim with beautiful images and gorgeous prose, Palimpsest belongs on the same shelf with Calvino's Invisible Cities and Winterson's The Passion. Valente is writing the smartest, gentlest, deepest work in the field, and she's good enough to do it. I remain in awe.”—Daniel Abraham, author of The Long Price Quartet
Still not decided? Here's a taste, via the story that inspired the book....
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And on the other side of the bookshelf, Anton Strout's Deader Still, the follow up to Dead to Me, is also on-sale this week. Wheee!
"It’s hard to defeat evil on a budget. Just ask Simon Canderous.
It’s been 737 days since the Department of Extraordinary Affairs’ last vampire incursion, but that streak appears to have ended when a boat full of dead lawyers is found in the Hudson River. Using the power of psychometry—the ability to divine the history of an object by touching it—agent Simon Canderous discovers that the booze cruise was crashed by something that sucked all the blood out of the litigators. Now, his workday may never end—until his life does."
And really, all I can do is quote Charlaine Harris: "Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game."
