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Scintillating fantasy short story collection. Sometimes, too blinding, in language. Writer's pretentions or my miscomprehension - combination of two.
Partial reread of this 1994 collection, of late 1980s and early 90s stories, all first published at Asimov's. Here's the TOC and publication details: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?3...And here's PW's 1994 review, which is the one to read first: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-...The standout story, for me, is "Living Will" (1991), a story about an aging computer millionaire who's facing dementia, and has made, um, provisions to deal with it. The technical details haven't held up, but
This is a crazy, bizarre sci fi book. It's actually a compilation of different stories that he wrote for a sci fi magazine. I liked some, but mostly I just didn't understand a lot of it. I felt like he made up words and I had no clue what they meant.
Two gems and about 2 four star stories save this from being a 3-star rating. There are a couple of real duds. The jacket says these are "back to the Golden Age" stories but there is nothing Golden Age of SciFi about these stories. They are all cutting edge speculative fiction with a good dose of fantasy and horror thrown in.
This is another in the "So good luke was willing to carry around a paper book to read it" category. Way at the top end of the top quintile. I read "a deeper sea" a bit ago, and it was really interesting to see what the novel-length story was like when stripped down to it's bones; good stuff. Personally, I like to recontextualize "Beneath the shadow of her smile" as a more intellectual re-telling of the "Casca" stories by Barry Sadler
Jablokov has a delightful style. Curious, intriguing stories. Some moments & characterization that reminded me of a darker Terry Pratchett."The Death Artist" explores has some explorations of gender/body identity that, despite elements which are problematic, I enjoyed."The Ring of Memory" used one of my favourite time-traveling tropes of an item that doesn't actually exist. While very different thematically & content-wise, there were elements that reminded me of the German show Dark."Many Mansio...
