{"id":3550,"date":"2012-03-18T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/03\/18\/books-received-31812-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-18T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:55:14","slug":"books-received-31812-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/03\/18\/books-received-31812-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 3\/18\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories<\/span><\/a>
\nEdited by Ann &amp; Jeff VanderMeer<\/span><\/p>\n

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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird<\/span>, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature.<\/p>\n

Exotic and esoteric, The Weird<\/span> plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won\u2019t find any elves or wizards here\u2026but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled.<\/p>\n

The Weird<\/span> features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Mi\u00e9ville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.<\/p>\n

Check out the full table of contents here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Darksiders: The Abomination Vault<\/span><\/a>
\nby Ari Marmell<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ride with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as they seek to unearth a plot that could plunge all of Creation into chaos!<\/p>\n

Ages before the events of Darksiders and Darksiders II, two of the feared Horsemen\u2014Death and War\u2014are tasked with stopping a group of renegades from locating the Abomination Vault: a hoard containing weapons of ultimate power and malice, capable of bringing an end to the uneasy truce between Heaven and Hell … but only by unleashing total destruction.<\/p>\n

Created in close collaboration with the Darksiders II teams at Vigil and THQ, Darksiders: The Abomination Vault<\/span> gives an exciting look at the history and world of the Horsemen, shining a new light on the unbreakable bond between War and Death.<\/p>\n

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2012<\/span><\/a>
\nEdited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
\nCover by Michael Whelan<\/span><\/p>\n

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The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series.<\/p>\n

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes, which have been published since 1966, collect the year\u2019s Nebula Award-nominated and winning stories and poems, as voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. This year\u2019s volume includes the winners of the Andre Norton, Dwarf Star, Rhysling, and Solstice Awards, as well as the Nebula winners, and features:<\/p>\n

“How Interesting: A Tiny Man” by
\nHarlan Ellison<\/p>\n

“Ponies” by
\nKij Johnson<\/p>\n

“That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made” by
\nEric James Stone<\/p>\n

“The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen\u2019s Window by
\nRachel Swirsky<\/p>\n

an excerpt from
Blackout \/ All Clear<\/span> by
\nConnie Willis<\/p>\n

and an excerpt from the Andre Norton Award-winning
I Shall Wear Midnight<\/span> by
\nTerry Pratchett<\/p>\n

with additional stories and poems by Chris Barzak, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, Howard Hendrix, Geoff Landis, Shweta Narayan, Ann K. Schwader, James Tiptree, Jr., and Adam Troy-Castro and a cover by Solstice Award-winner Michael Whelan.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Edited by Ann &amp; Jeff VanderMeer Promo copy: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n