I’ve not read anything in years. I was recommended 3 Body Problem but hear it starts very slow and I could do with something easy and engaging.
Think mindless action film but in book form. To keep my attention and make me read. Get back in the habit.
Likes:
- Dark Materials trilogy.
- Horror - esp. Graham Masterton
- Non-fiction - love popular science books and history.
- Sci fi
- Short stories
This guy looks like he does some really fascinating stories. Especially the Bas-Lag stuff talking of mixing genres. I like the sound of that!
I’ve got a library across the road from me so I’m gonna take a wander over on Monday to have a mooch around for some of these. Failing that I’m gonna visit the giant second-hand bookshop in town tomorrow!
I recently read The City & The City and it was a very enjoyably weird read. There was a TV adaptation of it a few years ago so it’s one that might be more likely to be in the library stocks.
He essentially started a new genre with those books. The feeling was that it’d usher in an era of literate weird fiction mashing genres together but, other than Jeff VanderMeer’s work, it didn’t really.
The VanderMeet’s released The New Weird anthology (introduction here) but the only one that worked for me was Alistair Rennie’s “The Gutter Sees the Light That Never Shines” which he expanded into a full length book, BleakWarrior, which is equally beserk. So far, that’s his only novel.