THE EYE OF PURGATORY
Quite simply one of the great unsung discoveries of recent years, a mini-epic that explores death and decay in a manner that no other novel ever has.
ESCAPE FROM HELL (Book)
That book remains an invigorating jaunt through Dante’s Inferno, with the deceased science fiction writer Allen Carpenter traversing the nine circles of Hell.
ENEMY OF THE GOOD: POSTSCRIPTS 19
The contents are varied enough in style, quality and subject matter that it’s difficult to render any sort of overall verdict–to some of you I’m sure that fact will be off-putting, while others will take it as a strong recommendation.
DOCTOR LERNE
Here we have the first-ever unexpurgated English language version of French maestro Maurice Renard’s 1908 masterpiece DOCTOR LERNE, SUB-GOD. It’s the first entry in Black Coat Press’ five volume compendium of Renard’s “Scientific Marvel Fiction,” translated by science fiction legend Brian Stableford. Also contained in this book is Renard’s 1905 novella “Mr. Dupont’s Vacation” and his 1909 manifesto “Scientific Marvel Fiction and its Effect on The Consciousness of Progress.”
DOC GOOD’S TRAVELING SHOW
A novel that’s intriguing and absorbing, set in a minutely detailed future world with a scope that borders on epic.
THE DEEP SEA DIVER’S SYNDROME
The traveling-into-dreams trope has long been a prominent, and problematic, staple of horror and science fiction. This French novel, originally published in 1992, is a stellar example of the format–and, I feel, an overall standout in the field of imaginative fiction. Kudos to Melville House, and translator Edward Gauvin, for putting out this better-late-than-never English language version.
DARK MATTER (Greg Reeves)
Certainly the only serial killer novel to combine mass murder, quantum physics and a heartfelt dissertation on the ethics of science.
CONE ZERO
Not having read any of the other Nemonymous anthologies, I was unsure what to expect. That, it turns out, was an ideal state of mind in which to approach this book
CERN ZOO
Another Nemonymous anthology, meaning another weird and fascinating compendium of horror, science fiction and general oddness.
THE BOOK OF SKULLS
In its depiction of early 1970s youth culture THE BOOK OF SKULLS is dense and not a little cynical, with a concentration on psychedelics and higher states of consciousness