Caitlín R. Kiernan
Auteur van The Drowning Girl
Over de Auteur
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Reeksen
Werken van Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Yellow Book 21 exemplaren
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
False/Starts II 14 exemplaren
The Aubergine Alphabet (A Fourth Primer) 13 exemplaren
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 exemplaren
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 exemplaren
Refugees 7 exemplaren
The Chartreuse Alphabet (A Fifth Primer) 6 exemplaren
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 6 exemplaren
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 exemplaren
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 6 exemplaren
False Starts 5 exemplaren
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 exemplaren
Sanderlings 5 exemplaren
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 exemplaren
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 exemplaren
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 exemplaren
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 exemplaren
As Red As Red 3 exemplaren
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 exemplaren
Persephone 3 exemplaren
The Belated Burial 3 exemplaren
The Melusine (1898) [Short story] 3 exemplaren
Tidal Forces 3 exemplaren
On the Road to Jefferson 3 exemplaren
Riding the White Bull {short story} 3 exemplaren
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 exemplaren
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 exemplaren
La Peau Verte 3 exemplaren
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 exemplaren
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 exemplaren
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 exemplaren
Masques and Hedgehogs (The Dreaming #45) 2 exemplaren
A Redress For Andromeda 2 exemplaren
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 exemplaren
The Maltese Unicorn 2 exemplaren
Galápagos 2 exemplaren
Bast: Eternity Game 2 exemplaren
Study for "Estate" 2 exemplaren
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 exemplaren
Onion 2 exemplaren
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 exemplaren
Escape Artist 2 exemplaren
Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 exemplaren
The Pearl Diver 2 exemplaren
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection 2 exemplaren
The Bone's Prayer 2 exemplaren
Ode To Katan Amano 2 exemplaren
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 exemplaren
Giants in the Earth 2 exemplaren
The Drowned Geologist 2 exemplaren
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 exemplaar
False Starts 1 exemplaar
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 exemplaar
The Dead and the Moonstruck (in GOTHIC! - NOYES) 1 exemplaar
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 exemplaar
Alabaster Volume 2: Grimmer Tales 1 exemplaar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 exemplaar
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 exemplaar
The King of Birds 1 exemplaar
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) 1 exemplaar
The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean 1 exemplaar
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings 1 exemplaar
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 exemplaar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 exemplaar
Sirenia digest 1 exemplaar
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 exemplaar
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 exemplaar
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 exemplaar
Random Thoughts Before A Fatal Crash 1 exemplaar
On The Reef 1 exemplaar
Scary Monsters (The Dreaming #48) 1 exemplaar
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 exemplaar
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 exemplaar
Two Worlds and in Between [story] 1 exemplaar
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 exemplaar
So Runs the World Away 1 exemplaar
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 05 [148], May 2018 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 06 [149], June 2018 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 14, No. 07 [150], July 2018 1 exemplaar
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 exemplaar
Bainbridge 1 exemplaar
Standing Water 1 exemplaar
Alabaster [short story] 1 exemplaar
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) 1 exemplaar
The Sandman Presents: Bast: Eternity Game #2-3 1 exemplaar
The Dreaming #9-14, 20-21, 26-44, 48-51, 53-59 1 exemplaar
In The Water Works 1 exemplaar
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 exemplaar
Pony 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 06 [161], June 2019 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 07 [162], July 2019 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 15, No. 05 [160], May 2019 1 exemplaar
Houses Under the Sea [short story] 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 10 [201], October 2022, Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 19, No. 2 [208], May 2023. A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizzareness 1 exemplaar
From Weird and Distant Shores, Second Edition 1 exemplaar
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 exemplaar
Estate 1 exemplaar
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 exemplaar
Bela's Plot 1 exemplaar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 6 [197], June 2022 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Nawoord, sommige edities — 598 exemplaren
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Medewerker — 529 exemplaren
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Medewerker — 429 exemplaren
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Medewerker — 266 exemplaren
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Medewerker — 264 exemplaren
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 137 exemplaren
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) — Medewerker — 84 exemplaren
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 54 exemplaren
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Medewerker — 44 exemplaren
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Medewerker — 42 exemplaren
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Geboortedatum
- 1964-05-26
- Geslacht
- genderfluid
- Nationaliteit
- Ireland (birth)
USA - Land (voor op de kaart)
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Dublin, Ireland
- Woonplaatsen
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Opleiding
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Beroepen
- paleontologist
writer - Agent
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Ontwarringsbericht
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Leden
Discussies
THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (september 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan in The Weird Tradition (mei 2021)
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Ghosts (1)
LGBTQIA Horror (2)
Prijzen
Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
Gerelateerde auteurs
Statistieken
- Werken
- 295
- Ook door
- 166
- Leden
- 7,814
- Populariteit
- #3,115
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 262
- ISBNs
- 163
- Talen
- 9
- Favoriet
- 39
I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
… (meer)