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I became aware of Kevin Brockmeier’s work back in 2008 when Robert Shearman, in an interview with Eric Forbes, included Brockmeier in a list of writers “who play with the short story, squeeze as much out of it as they can.” Sadly, I’ve only now gotten around to reading Brockmeier’s short fiction, picking up his latest collection The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. The book is the literary equivalent of a concept album, gathering together 100 ghostly vignettes and then breaking them up into 11 categories including, “Ghosts and Memory”, “Ghosts and Nature”, “Ghosts and Speculation”, and “Ghosts and Love and Friendship”. There’s even a Concordance at the back of the collection that provides an intricate spiderweb of links between each vignette. Given the length of these stories – none longer than five hundred words – and the singular nature of the topic, if I weren’t reviewing ....
Ian Mond Several things kept me sane over the last 12 months. My family, the privilege of having a job while in lockdown, the Backlisted and Coode Street podcasts (particularly Coode Street‘s “10 minutes with” series), and the books I read. Yes, there were times in 2020 where I struggled to read more than a handful of pages, but the novels, novellas, and collections I did complete (47 of which I reviewed for Locus) were some of the best books I’ve read in the last decade. My favourite work of 2020, the book I know I will return to again and again until the pages are dog-eared and the spine has cracked, is Robert Shearman’s three-volume, 1,700-page, magnum opus ....
Graham Sleight (2015) by Francesca Myman Publishing lead-times being what they are, the extraordinary events of 2020 largely weren’t reflected in the books that came out in the year – or at least, not intentionally. I managed to read a good deal of thought-provoking SF and fantasy this year, but some books seemed even more relevant than expected because of the pandemic-shuttered world they emerged into. How posterity will view them – let alone how it’ll view the books that’ll doubtless follow about COVID itself – is a question for another day. Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits (Simon & Schuster India) offered a picture of India that was, its author insisted, both a dystopia and less bad than some alternatives. It certainly dug into the country’s culture and how it might change under the pressures bearing down on it. ....
Jonathan Strahan (by Francesca Myman) I started the year with good intentions. I intended to read every piece of short fiction that I could lay my hands on, every major novel, every exciting debut or anthology or short story collection and more. I would read all the things. This is the story of how I did not read all the things. I did not even read most of the things. Way back in January, everything seemed simple. I hadn’t heard of a growing problem in China; I’d just delivered my Year’s Best SF anthology to the publisher and finished my part in ....
Labyrinthine tales: We All Hear Stories in the Dark, by Robert Shearman, reviewed spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.