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Garry Kilworth

Autore di Highlander

174+ opere 2,371 membri 56 recensioni 3 preferito

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Opere di Garry Kilworth

Highlander (1986) 136 copie
Tre in soffitta (2006) 107 copie
Hunter's Moon (1989) 96 copie
Thunder Oak (1997) 95 copie
House of Tribes (1995) 79 copie
Knight's Dawn (2001) 72 copie
Angel (1993) 70 copie
Castle Storm (1998) 69 copie
The Night of Kadar (1978) 66 copie
A Midsummer's Nightmare (1996) 60 copie
In Solitary (1977) 59 copie
Spiggot's Quest (2002) 57 copie
The Roof of Voyaging (1996) 54 copie
Windjammer Run (1999) 54 copie
Theater of Timesmiths (1984) 52 copie
Wizard's Funeral (2002) 52 copie
The Songbirds of Pain (1984) 45 copie
Cloudrock (1988) 43 copie
Midnight's Sun (1992) 43 copie
Frost Dancers (1992) 41 copie
Gaslight Geezers (2001) 38 copie
The Devil's Own (1997) 36 copie
The Rain Ghost (1989) 36 copie
Vampire Voles (2002) 32 copie
Gemini God (1981) 31 copie
Abandonati (1988) 30 copie
The Ragthorn (1991) 30 copie
Scabbard's Song (2003) 30 copie
The Valley of Death (1998) 29 copie
The Princely Flower (1997) 29 copie
Attack on the Redan (2003) 26 copie
Il ragazzo elettrico (1994) 25 copie
Soldiers in the Mist (1999) 25 copie
The Winter Soldiers (2002) 23 copie
Mallmoc's Castle (2003) 23 copie
Land-Of-Mists (1998) 21 copie
Archangel (1994) 21 copie
Witchwater Country (1986) 20 copie
Jigsaw (2007) 18 copie
Tre ragazze all'antica (1995) 17 copie
Boggart and Fen (2004) 16 copie
Rogue Officer (2007) 14 copie
Heastward Ho! (2003) 14 copie
The Hundred-Towered City (2008) 13 copie
Spiral Winds (1987) 12 copie
Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks (1993) 12 copie
The Lantern Fox (1998) 11 copie
Kiwi Wars (2008) 9 copie
Brothers of the Blade (2004) 9 copie
The Drowners (1992) 8 copie
The Ragged School (1996) 7 copie
Cybercats (1996) 6 copie
The Sculptor (1992) 6 copie
Die Engel: Roman (2010) 6 copie
The Silver Claw (2005) 5 copie
The Fabulous Beast (2013) 5 copie
The Third Dragon (1991) 5 copie
Shadow-hawk (1999) 5 copie
Elemetal Tales (2019) 4 copie
Roche-Nuée (1988) 3 copie
The Phantom Piper (1995) 3 copie
Masterpiece 3 copie
the Street (1988) 2 copie
Nightdancer (2002) 2 copie
The Raiders (1996) 2 copie
Store Wars 2 copie
Mirrors 2 copie
The oystercatcher's cry (2000) 2 copie
The Saffron Fields (1994) 2 copie
The Iron Wire (2014) 2 copie
Networks (1990) 2 copie
Let's Go to Golgotha! (1974) 2 copie
Sir Cumference (1998) 1 copia
In Solitary 1 copia
The Gogamagog Circus (2023) 1 copia
The Wild Hunt (2022) 1 copia
Trivial Tales 1 copia
Fossils 1 copia
Usurper [short story] (1989) 1 copia
1948 [short story] (1993) 1 copia
Oubliette [short story] (1993) 1 copia
Giant [short story] (1993) 1 copia
The Drummer Boy (1998) 1 copia
White Noise 1 copia
Dogfaerie 1 copia
Phoenix Man (2011) 1 copia
Out Back 1 copia
Moby Jack 1 copia
The Megowl 1 copia
Paper Moon 1 copia
Oracle Bones 1 copia
My Lady Lygia 1 copia
The Wall [short story] (1988) 1 copia
Hunter's Hall 1 copia
Cherub 1 copia
Black Drongo 1 copia
The Stray 1 copia
Westward Ho 1 copia
X-Calibre [short story] (1990) 1 copia

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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Collaboratore — 815 copie
Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999) — Collaboratore — 625 copie
Black Swan, White Raven (1997) — Collaboratore — 585 copie
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A Whisper of Blood (1991) — Collaboratore — 256 copie
Blood Is Not Enough: 17 Stories of Vampirism (1989) — Collaboratore — 219 copie
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Collaboratore — 211 copie
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection (1992) — Collaboratore — 202 copie
Strange Dreams (1993) — Collaboratore — 186 copie
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1988) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991) — Collaboratore — 155 copie
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The Best of Interzone (1997) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 (2011) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
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The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1963) — Prefazione; Collaboratore — 66 copie
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100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Collaboratore — 63 copie
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100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
Great Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery and Madness (2004) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honour (2000) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
New Worlds (New Anthology Series , Vol 1) (1997) — Autore — 47 copie
New Worlds 4 (1994) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
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Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories (1998) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
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The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
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Touch Wood (1993) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
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A story of wolves living in northern forest and tundra. From the wolves’ viewpoint, but unlike any other book I’ve ever read about wolves. I was fairly riveted, but it took so long to read because of eye strain, and some technical issues (see below). I had to take breaks and read easier books or graphic novels here and there instead. The main character is a wolf who doesn’t really fit in well, to his strictly-ordered pack. Thinking outside the regimented norm is dangerous when survival is at issue. As he finds out even more keenly when ousted from the pack and living on his own. Barely survives at times, thrives in others. Has encounters with strange wolves, a fierce weasel, ravens and half-wild dogs. Travels long distances, faces down a rival, and meets a female unlike any he’s known back home. Then he starts a family but almost looses them, gets captured by humans, narrowly escapes but in a strange set of circumstances ends up in an uneasy partnership with a human in the wilderness. (Other wolves never quite believe him when he tells about this later on). He suffers greatly travelling to try and find his family again, not sure if they’re even alive. And in the end encounters other wolves with a risky, death-wish agenda: to kill as many humans as possible, in retaliation for what mankind has done to all animals. Led by his old rival. When they finally meet, he discovers they have more in common now, and form an uneasy truce- if they can survive it.

So much more than I can mention here! The story had a deeply-felt sense of culture among the wolves- the meaning of their songs (howls), the legends and stories shared (their own version of Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, etc). A sense of the very landscape being alive. The inter-relationship with other wildlife. The keen communication via scent and sound, the shape and feel of the wind, the terrain, etc felt so vivid at times. There was also a very subtle but profound examination through the story, of what a complete paradigm shift in how a family approaches things can occur, and how difficult that is to navigate. I feel like I’m not quite stating that clearly, but it’s the best I can do now.

I've seen other readers state that this book has inaccuracies in how it depicts wolf behavior and pack structure, but I enjoyed it regardless. Maybe it helps if you don't know too much.
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jeane | Mar 12, 2024 |
Fun adventure story, clearly for younger readers but with plenty of depth and interesting details.
 
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mutantpudding | 9 altre recensioni | Dec 26, 2021 |
Commended for the Carnegie Medal. [Not clear what 'commended' means, or whether it applies to the author or the book.] Orig. published by Methuen.
 
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ME_Dictionary | Mar 20, 2020 |
Skelter is a blue mountain hare from the highlands. He lives a relatively good life for a wild hare, even though predators and other dangers must be constantly avoided- not far into the book there is a bloody scene of a deer dying, which firmly introduces the reader to the fact this story doesn't shy away from death. Lots of animals die. Even main characters. Just when I was beginning to like them. Well, Skelter is looking forward to the upcoming mating season, when he will box with other hares to earn his right to a female. But men sweep across the fields catching wild hares to use for coursing their greyhounds. Skelters is shut in a cage, transported to the coursing field, has to run for his life. He narrowly escapes and finds himself in the lowlands, a strange countryside very different from the highland slopes he used to live on.

Skelter has to find ways to adapt in the new land. He takes up with some rabbits for a while, then tries to live among some lowland field hares. He becomes companionable with some females and wards off rival males. He has to face prejudices and superstitions galore- in this story, the differences between rabbits and hares are constantly pointed out, hares scorning the smaller rabbits' company. Skelter also lives near a badger's sett, gets to know a few otters and a short-tempered hedgehog. There are foxes that skulk across the fields, farmer's dogs that let them in on what humans are doing, and many other animals in the story. But strangest of all and most threatening is a giant exotic eagle. Through the whole story the eagle is described but never quite identified- the rabbits and hares simply call it a monster- its hunting patterns are different than any other predator they've met, and it threatens them with extinction. Turns out it is a harpy eagle, an exotic pet released when it couldn't be kept. All kinds of implications in that part of the story. The oddest part was that the tower the eagle nested in talked to it. The tower talked. That was a bit much.

Well anyway Skelter the hare goes out on this insane quest to find the harpy eagle's hideout, learn more about it in case it can help them deal with the predator. And I won't tell you more about that part of the story- you'd have to read it. I can see why this book has been compared to Watership Down. Lagomorph leaving its homeland under duress, searching for a way to find a safe new home. It even gives a few serious nods to the other book.... But this isn't as deep a story. Details of the highland countryside are nice, but later such depictions of nature are less frequent as the story has more action. The characterization isn't nearly as good. There were some inconsistencies in the story that bothered me- a hare feeling indifferent to one thing, then hating it later on with no real explanation for the change in attitude for example... Also a few odd spellings...

There were other things that seemed not-so-well thought out. The mythology and culture of the rabbits and hares just had too much going on. In the beginning of the story there was an info dump on hare beliefs- something like a hell full of tempters that dead hare spirits pass through while trying to reach heaven- and I was ready to buy that, to accept it as part of the story. But there’s also ghost-hares that guide the living, hare spirits that get turned into flowers, racial memories that some of the animals access when in a kind of trance (like in Nop’s Trials). In addition, the hares and rabbits have tons of superstitions including human-made objects seen as good luck items.... It was just a lot of various belief systems and mythologies going on when I would have rather sunk deeply into just one.

It was nice that things were shown solidly from the animal perspective. They observe a murder that happens on a farm, but don’t know what's going on, although the reader is able to piece it together. They see a new feature arrive on the land, and something described as a "rigid bird" which I thought was an albatross (for a few pages). All the animals speak, although in different languages and dialects, and humans are the ones who make meaningless, superfluous sounds so the animals assume they communicate by gesture only.

I almost feel sorry to give this book a low rating, but I really had to force myself to finish it in the end. There's an overly dramatic chase scene and a last-minute encounter with the harpy eagle that ends with unexpected suddenness. I have to say the way the author worked that final encounter into the story was quite clever. I feel like I’ve said quite a lot now, especially for a book that in the end, I didn’t care for that much. If you look on Goodreads, there’s someone who really goes on and on about it.

from the Dogear Diary
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jeane | 1 altra recensione | May 9, 2018 |

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