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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Last Coin (edizione 1996)di James P. Blaylock
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Not the same cover, not the same edition, but close enuf. Blaylock is in that minority of SF writers who're also clearly comical. I like that combination. Other writers that spring to mind are the team of G. C. Edmondson & C. M. Kotlan, Ron Goulart, & Rudy Rucker. I'd read more by him if I ever ran across anything again. There's something about absurdist SF that's dear to my parallel dimension baboon heart. ( ) I first read this book in the late 90’s and loved it. Ten years or so on, and I’ll admit to struggling with it this time round. This is more a reflection on me than the book - unless the fiction fairies have been subtly altering the plot whilst I wasn’t looking. Still enjoyable, just sometimes felt a little slow paced. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML:A biblical betrayal drives this trilogy from the World Fantasy Awardâ??winning author, "a singular American fabulist" (William Gibson, author of Neuromancer). The price of immortality . . . Two thousand years ago, there lived a man who sold some valuable information for a fee of thirty silver coins. His name was Judas Iscariot, and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still existâ??and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them . . . Like Andrew Vanbergen, whose attempts at innkeeping bring in stranger business than he ever expected. And Aunt Naomi, whose most prized family heirloom is a silver spoonâ??with a curiously ancient-looking engraving. And especially old Mr. Pennyman, who is only five silver coins short of immortality . . . "The Last Coin should confirm Blaylock's position as a trendsetter, breaking new ground rather than just exploring the old." â??San Francisco Chronicle "Against a lyric vision of the Southern California coast, cosmic conspiracy theories bump heads in a gleeful farce to produce another strange and wonderful book from the idiosyncratic author of Homunculus and Land of Dreams." â??Publishers Weekly "Weird and wonderful touches abound; Blaylock makes good use of his coastal setting, extracting his own brand of magic from familiar places and familiar things. While Biblical conspiracies and revisionist scriptures are all the rage now, Blaylock got the jump on the current crop by several years." â??S Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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