Nathan Carson
Auteur van Starr Creek
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- 26
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- #495,361
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- 3.3
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Starr Creek is a fast-paced, fun, compulsively readable novella from emerging author Nathan Carson. It tells an interweaving series of tales about shady backwoods lowlifes, some day-tripper teens, a biker gang, a couple of kids up to no good, and an inexplicable cargo cult, and that's all before stuff really starts getting weird. It's set in rural Oregon in the early 1980's, but never gets mired down in ticking off pop-culture references for 'authenticity', anything mentioned in that vein is organically part of the story, told from the perspective of someone who really lived through that time. The strange concepts start coming fast and furious about midway in, and there are fun allusions to a lot of literary and film tropes including having the kids find and befriend an alien, underground labyrinths, ancient-astronaut-theory spliced with local legends, and the inevitable and climactic showdowns that the whole town shows up for. All the while the bizarro mash-up meter is going right off the charts. Definitely a big recommendation to fans of fresh, funny, and inventive spec-lit stuff.… (meer)