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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Ant King: and Other Storiesdi Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Quelques très jolies nouvelles (Falling, Siege of Cranes) et d'autres... ( ) I took this book out of the library when it came out - a few months ago. Since it was new, I only had a week or two to get to it and I didn't get through other books fast enough to do so- I only got through the first story (The Ant King) before I had to return it. I enjoyed the story and definitely planned to get the book back out. I was looking forward to reading the other stories. Well, the stories were a mix - some good, some I felt were really boring. The thing is, there are some writers where you're reading about some things that make you question the writer's sanity (I'd say Burroughs and the Good Doctor would be reasonable examples) and then there are some writers who (to me) try too hard to seem crazy - and Rosenbaum fits into that category. Not to say that crazy is a good thing, but when you're trying to interact as writer to audience as much as Rosenbaum does and you're writing about topics of questionable sanity...I feel like it needs to be more believable that your sanity is questionable. I want to feel a little uncomfortable as I'm reading that type of story rather than feeling like I'm sitting in a smoky college dorm room discussing the meaning of everything, with everyone involved believing they've said something deeply profound. A collection of short stories, some of which sit firmly in the realm of science fiction or fantasy, and some of which are simply uncategorizably strange. Rosenbaum reminds me of Italo Calvino in many respects: the use of dreamlike or fairy-tale logic, the playfulness, the fascination with meta-narratives. One of the pieces in this collection even seems to be a deliberate homage to Calvino's Invisible Cities. But Rosenbaum isn't just some sort of Calvino imitator; he also shares Calvino's inventiveness. There's an incredible feeling of originality about these stories. Even when Rosenbaum is using familiar SF elements or riffing off of well-known works of fiction, he gives the sense of looking at whatever it is through absolutely fresh eyes and inviting the reader to do the same. Some of these stories did more for me than others, but I came away from the book with the overall impression of having just experienced something marvelous, in every sense of the word. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
ContieneBiographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes' [novelette] di Benjamin Rosenbaum The City of Peace di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Bellur di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Ponge di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Ahavah di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Amea Amaau di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Ylla's Choice di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Zvlotsk di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Newⁿ Pernch di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Maxis di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Jouiselle-aux-Chantes di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Penelar Of The Reefs di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Stin di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) The White City {short story} di Benjamin Rosenbaum (indirettamente) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
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HTML: "Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories contains invisible cities and playful deconstructions of the form. In "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum"??yes, his name is part of the title??the author imagines a world whose technologies and philosophies differ wildly from ours. The result is a commentary on the state of the art that is itself the state of the art." * "Give him some prizes, like, perhaps, "best first collection" for this book." "Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout??a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world??this collection is a surrealistic wonderland." "Rosenbaum proves he's capable of sustained fantasy with "Biographical Notes," a steampunkish alternate history of aerial piracy, and "A Siege of Cranes," a fantasy about a battle between a human insurgent and the White Witch that carries decidedly modern undercurrents.... Perhaps none of the tales is odder than "Orphans," in which girl-meets-elephant, girl-loses-elephant." "Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."??Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual." A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum's stories have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction and McSweeney's, been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaum's work has been reprinted in Harper's and The Year's Best Science Fiction. He lives in Swi Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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