The more things change, the more they stay the same ... I'm not really sure who this book is for, at this point. John R. Tunis aficionados (of which tThe more things change, the more they stay the same ... I'm not really sure who this book is for, at this point. John R. Tunis aficionados (of which there can't be more than a handful)? People who like to geek out over vintage sportswriting? College-educated people who want confirmation that the sorts of things they worry about haven't changed in generations?
Seriously, if you are at all interested in sports and history and the ways they intersect, you should probably give this a look. It has articles about how college football was becoming an industry before before the end of World War II. It's also got ... let's see, articles about boat races between Oxford and Cambridge, the Tour de France, the French Open, and Tunis's experience as an officer escorting a troop transport full of dishonorably discharged enlisted men back to America after World War I....more
I read two of the stories here — "Two Delays on the Northern Line" and "The Diary of the Rose", as the setting is the same as that of Orsinian Tales aI read two of the stories here — "Two Delays on the Northern Line" and "The Diary of the Rose", as the setting is the same as that of Orsinian Tales and Malafrena. "Diary of the Rose" had an SF/dystopic feel and "Two Delays" (in keeping with rest of the Orsinia works) did not.
I didn't have time to read the other stories, but I think I would like to later....more
3.5 stars, almost 4. Only three stories I either stopped reading or thought of doing so because I thought they were meh or bad. And some of them were 3.5 stars, almost 4. Only three stories I either stopped reading or thought of doing so because I thought they were meh or bad. And some of them were really good. I might add this to my permanent collection ... I think it has good re-readability....more
I read the stories by Michael Swanwick, Charles de Lint, and Elizabeth Bear. Oh, and the introduction, which was a little skimpy. Left out Rush and moI read the stories by Michael Swanwick, Charles de Lint, and Elizabeth Bear. Oh, and the introduction, which was a little skimpy. Left out Rush and modern Euro-rock in the "music influenced by fantasy" section, and omitted Gael Baudino's Gossamer Axe from the rock-related list of SF/F books.
The Bear one was probably my favorite, but Swanwick's was good too. Toss-up. The Pat Cadigan story has been reprinted elsewhere. I'm sad that Emma Bull didn't have a story in this one....more
I'm not much of a fan of post-apocalyptic stuff ... but Ellen Datlow is a good anthologist, and this has some contributors whose work I've liked in thI'm not much of a fan of post-apocalyptic stuff ... but Ellen Datlow is a good anthologist, and this has some contributors whose work I've liked in the past....more
Somehow I thought this would contain more than two stories. Probably this is because of my failure to pay attention. I felt like this didn't have the Somehow I thought this would contain more than two stories. Probably this is because of my failure to pay attention. I felt like this didn't have the intensity of reading Countdown when it was just a series of daily posts counting down to the release day for one of the Newsflesh books, but the illustrations were nice evocative and creepy, and it did make me feel a little more enthusiastic about the prospect of re-reading that trilogy.
I thought there was a reference to this in Libriomancer, but apparently not. (Unless Amazon's Search Inside results are lying to me.) I guess I just fI thought there was a reference to this in Libriomancer, but apparently not. (Unless Amazon's Search Inside results are lying to me.) I guess I just found it through wikisafari, either through looking up stuff about Jeeves and Wooster (P.G. Wodehouse) or Raffles (E.W. Hornung).
Anyway, however I found it, it was just an okay read. Carnacki made me think of Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde, and to a lesser extent of Mulder from The X-Files — he is a believer and practitioner of occult knowledge, but he is also aware that fraud is common and tries to debunk it when he finds it.
The style of storytelling here is old, and it shows. The only story that really gripped me was "The Whistling Room." It was genuinely a bit scary, even at the end, even if it did it by making a woman a potential victim, if Carnacki hadn't averted the crisis....more
Caught my eye in the library but the style wasn't really working for me. Think The Name of the Wind but lighter and fluffier. (Based on the first 5 paCaught my eye in the library but the style wasn't really working for me. Think The Name of the Wind but lighter and fluffier. (Based on the first 5 pages, anyway.)...more
This collection seemed repetitive. IIRC what I read on Wikipedia correctly it was broken up in places that the original short stories weren't, so perhThis collection seemed repetitive. IIRC what I read on Wikipedia correctly it was broken up in places that the original short stories weren't, so perhaps that negatively affected the pacing. But hopefully there won't be as much Bingo in the next book....more
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