The Theradane Cycle: 1 by Scott Lynch © 2018 Scott Lynch, Published by Scott Lynch at Smashwords, ISBN 978-0-692-19212-2 (ebook) I did a review a month or so ago of Gentleman Bastard, a trilogy by Scott Lynch. I happened to compare it to Samuel Delany’s short masterpiece, “Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones” …
If It Bleeds by Stephen King, copyright 2020 Scribner, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Every decade or so, Stephen King likes to put out a collection, usually novellas, sometimes short stories, or a mix of both. So to cap the second decade of the third millennium (Also known as “Mankind’s next-to-last decade”), he …
Elevation, a novel[la] Copyright © 2018 by Stephen King Illustrations © Mark Edward Geyer Scribner Readers will be irresistibly reminded of Thinner, a 1984 novel by Richard Bachman, in which the central character begins mysteriously losing weight. Bachman, of course, was the nom de slumming of Stephen King, and Thinner was a not-bad effort, one …