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
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.