Posted 21 February 2018 - 07:06 PM
Abyss, on 21 February 2018 - 02:37 PM, said:
Finished Ruthanna Emerys' WINTER'S TIDE. Satisfying. I enjoyed the original take on the Cthulhu mythos, even if i found it a bit jarring from the usual. The finale suffers a bit for using magic as a catch-all problem solver, but the characters and world are solid, and overall i enjoyed the book and would consider reading the next one.
Yeah, Tor.com seems to be doing a lot of "contemporary authors in conversation with HPL" recently, and I have to say I'm quite enjoying how they turn out. I found "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" to be dreadfully boring, but Kij Johnson's DREAM-QUEST OF VELLITT BOE is pretty cool. She's off to see Randolph Carter (!) right now...
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch