THE GLASS CAGE
An “unconventional detective story” by the inimitable Colin Wilson
FADE
It feels wrong to criticize a novel for being too ambitious, but this would-be epic about invisibility is too ambitious
MYTHAGO WOOD
The first of Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood saga, about a mythologically endowed British woodland
RAPTOR RED
The 1990s dinosaur craze found a most unexpected apotheosis in this Cretaceous Period set novel told from the point of view of a raptor
DEUS IRAE
In science fiction terms this book marked a true dream collaboration, it being the first and only novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
SPARES
From the UK’s Michael Marshall Smith, a diusturbing sci fi dystopia that was supposed to be adapted for film by Dreamworks, but wasn’t
LYCHEE LIGHT CLUB
A manga one-shot involving perversion and psychosis amid a group of middle schoolers. It’s much better than you might expect.
LOST SOULS
A happy birthday to the horror icon Poppy Z. Brite, whose debut novel this was
SEXUALIS ’95
A very accurate (not!) portrayal of the year 1995 was offered up in this novel, one of two available English translations by Belgium’s Jacques Sternberg
THE COMMITTED MEN
The apocalypse-themed first novel by England’s enormously gifted M. John Harrison, who in more recent years has all-but disowned it