The Great Unknown is a collection of 19 short stories by Australian writers. According to Angela Meyer, the editor, “it was while watching the original series of The Twilight Zone that the book… was born.” “The strange, the absurd, the macabre, the speculative and the fantastical” nature of these stories, saw them chosen and compiled as examples of the kind of influence American television programmes like The Twilight Zone has had on contemporary Australian writers. (more…)
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Review – The Great Unknown – Stories edited By Angela Meyer
Posted: March 17, 2015 in Rants, Reviews & RamblingsTags: A.S. Patric, Alex Cothren, Ali Alizadeh, Angela Meyer, Anthology, Australian, Carmel Bird, Chris Flynn, Damon Young, Deborah Biancotti, Guy Salvidge, Helen Richardson, Kathy Charles, Krissy Kneen, Marion Halligan, Mark O'Flynn, P.M. Newton, Paddy O'Reilly, Review, Rhys Tate, Ryan O'Neill, Short fiction, Susan Yardley, The Great Unknown, The Twilight Zone
Review – Stories: All-New Tales Edited By Neil Gaiman And Al Sarrantonio
Posted: February 2, 2015 in RantsTags: Al Sarrantonio, Anthology, Carolyn Parkhurst, Chuck Palahniuk, Diana Wynne Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Gene Wolfe, Jeffery Deaver, Jeffrey Ford, Joanne Harris, Jodi Picoult, Joe Hill, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Carroll, Joyce Carol Oates, Kat Howard, Kurt Anderson, Lawrence Block, Michael Marshall Smith, Michael Moorcock, Michael Swanwick, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, Review, Richard Adams, Roddy Doyle, Short fiction, Stewart O'Nan, Tim Powers, Walter Mosley
Stories is a collection of twenty-seven short fiction pieces, penned by separate contemporary mainstream writers. These are works of fantasy, but not fantasy in the traditional mainstream sense. Neither elf nor dwarf nor wizard makes an appearance. There are no dragons, no castles, and no kings in this book. There are a couple of vampires, some gods, a ghost, and an alien or two, that is true. But this is fantasy fiction that, for the most part, defies the traditional, stereotypical norm, each piece selected by Gaimann and Sarrantonio based on the fact they were difficult to nail to a particular genre; imaginative fiction, encompassing a broad range of subjects, intended to leave the reader asking “What happens next?”
And in this sense the book is a success. Stories gets you hooked and leaves you hanging for the next page’s fix. (more…)
Regurgitator – Dirty Pop Fantasy
Posted: February 11, 2014 in Rants, Reviews & RamblingsTags: Dirty Pop Fantasy, Music, Regurgitator, Review
I decided long ago that commercial television and radio had a lot to answer for. Making us believe stuff that simply isn’t true, making us want [to buy] shit we really don’t need, telling us we should be interested in stuff that is really, really dumb!
Which perhaps helps explain why I have always loved Regurgitator.
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