Caitlín R. Kiernan
Autore di The Drowning Girl
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Serie
Opere di Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Yellow Book 21 copie
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
False/Starts II 14 copie
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 copie
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 copie
Refugees 8 copie
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 7 copie
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 6 copie
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 copie
False Starts 5 copie
Sanderlings 5 copie
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 copie
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 copie
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 copie
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 copie
As Red As Red 3 copie
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 copie
Persephone 3 copie
The Belated Burial 3 copie
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 copie
Tidal Forces 3 copie
On the Road to Jefferson 3 copie
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 copie
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 copie
La Peau Verte 3 copie
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 copie
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 copie
Study for "Estate" 2 copie
Bast: Eternity Game 2 copie
Onion 2 copie
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 copie
Escape Artist 2 copie
The Bone's Prayer 2 copie
The Pearl Diver 2 copie
A Redress For Andromeda 2 copie
Galápagos 2 copie
Ode To Katan Amano 2 copie
The Maltese Unicorn 2 copie
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 copie
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 copie
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 copie
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 copie
Giants in the Earth 2 copie
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 copie
The Drowned Geologist 2 copie
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 copia
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 copia
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 copia
False Starts 1 copia
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 copia
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 copia
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 copia
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 copia
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 copia
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 copia
The King of Birds 1 copia
Sirenia digest 1 copia
On The Reef 1 copia
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 copia
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 copia
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 copia
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 copia
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 copia
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 copia
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 copia
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 copia
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 copia
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 copia
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 copia
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 copia
So Runs the World Away 1 copia
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 copia
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 copia
Standing Water 1 copia
Alabaster [short story] 1 copia
In The Water Works 1 copia
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 copia
Pony 1 copia
Bainbridge 1 copia
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 copia
Estate 1 copia
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 copia
Bela's Plot 1 copia
Opere correlate
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 598 copie
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Collaboratore — 430 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 266 copie
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 138 copie
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 54 copie
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Collaboratore — 44 copie
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Collaboratore — 34 copie
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Altri nomi
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1964-05-26
- Sesso
- genderfluid
- Nazionalità
- Ireland (birth)
USA - Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Istruzione
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Attività lavorative
- paleontologist
writer - Agente
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Utenti
Discussioni
THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (Settembre 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (Mag 2021)
Recensioni
Liste
Ghosts (1)
LGBTQIA Horror (2)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 295
- Opere correlate
- 166
- Utenti
- 7,849
- Popolarità
- #3,098
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 262
- ISBN
- 163
- Lingue
- 9
- Preferito da
- 39
I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
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