Lynda E. Rucker
Auteur van The Moon Will Look Strange
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No More A-Roving [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
These Things We Have Always Known 2 exemplaren
The Last Reel 1 exemplaar
Ash-mouth 1 exemplaar
Where The Summer Dwells 1 exemplaar
Black Static 82/83 1 exemplaar
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The two best stories are Calligraphy by James Everington and This Many by S.P. Miskowski, the latter being one of the most chilling ghost stories I've read in awhile.
Unfortunately I feel compelled to deal with the piece of crap. Each author writes a little piece about their obsession after each story. One of these, longer than the story itself, is a self serving piece of rubbish. If you want to include a suicide note with your story, fine, but the editors should have rejected it. The author proceeds to name check about a dozen famous literary suicides while lampshading his own paltry contribution to the literary canon and recounting his own experiences with stepping off the pier. The piece is complete with footnotes (!) going so far as to quote famous Roman suicide (he was probably compelled to do it, not by choice) Petronius Arbiter. At least the story that accompanied this diatribe was good.
Suicide is mental illness not heroism. Unfortunately and tragically it seems that some of those who plumb the depths are also our greatest artists, however the vast majority are just like the rest of us. Mental illness does not a genius make. The fact that it is a great career move for some artists is a reflection on those of us that are left, not the artists themselves.… (meer)