"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Al Sarrantonio “Ain’t you gonna ask me why I shot her in the back?” I said . . . “Because her front was too far away!” Here we have another solid collection from Mr. Sarrantonio, and while containing a number of excellent tales it falls a little short of his previously reviewed collection, Toybox.... Continue Reading →
by Dean Koontz “You don’t have to make the world peaceful,” she said. “It is to begin with. You just have to learn not to disturb things.” Mr. Koontz has an entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable, worth every penny and then some, but not often eye-opening. If you're a reader of his novels but haven't seen... Continue Reading →
by Al Sarrantonio Many folks first actual exposure to Al Sarrantonio's work may be the amazing anthology 999, and that's a very serious collection. If so, your expectations for Toybox should be high. Over the course of this read, and comparing back to that anthology, you may see a unique quality emerging. It's assembly, not... Continue Reading →
by Scott Smith A lot of people hate this book, and many others love it. There's very little middle ground. We have social and personal deconstruction here, mirrored with literal deconstruction, and it works horrifyingly so. It’s visceral and mean but not grotesque, and the book plays out like a movie. A small group of... Continue Reading →
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