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Borne

April 25, 2017 by Drew

The Short Version: Sometime in a dangerous, destroyed future, a woman named Rachel survives on the fringes of a ruined city with her partner. They avoid creatures great and small, fight small territorial skirmishes, and eke out a life. But when Rachel brings home a strange creature, which she names Borne, everything changes. Who is Borne? What is he – and what will he become? The Review: It is quite something to find an author relatively early in one’s adult […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Book, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Borne, Fiction, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, review, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Speculative

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Veniss Underground

June 29, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Sometime far in the future, in a city called Veniss, a young would-be-artist named Nicholas is down on his luck. He seeks a favor from a friend, an introduction to a powerful figure – and disappears. When his sister gets worried, she asks that same friend – Shadrach, her former lover – to look for him. So begins Shadrach’s journey into the depths of Veniss’ underground – a journey that will take him to the mouth of some […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Balzac's War, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Jeff Vandermeer, Novella, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Veniss, Weird, Weird Fiction

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Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction

February 5, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: The first major collection (in English) to take a career-spanning look at the works, both major and minor, of Leena Krohn. Strange cities, robots, clones, a “paradox archive”, a deadly plant, and more populate the tales collected here and the whole presents a truly unique voice in all its many timbres. The Review: It’s easy to believe, for Americans and perhaps for members of English-speaking society at large, that we have available to us all that we will ever […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Ann VanderMeer, Anna Volmari, Anselm Hollo, Bethany Fox, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cheeky Frawg, Eva Buchwald, Fiction, Finland, Finnish Fiction, Gold of Ophir, Herbert Lomas, Hildi Hawkins, J. Robert Tupasela, Jeff Vandermeer, Leena Krohn, Literature, Reviews, Tainaron, Translation, Vivii Hyvönen, Weird Fiction

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The Bestiary

December 21, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Compiled by Ann VanderMeer, The Bestiary presents just that: a collection of short writing about strange creatures, one for each letter of the alphabet (as well as ‘&’ and an invisible letter). The Review: I think sometimes that there isn’t quite enough wonder in the world, particularly of the magical variety. I don’t necessarily mean the magic of wand-waving wizards and the like (although they’re not excluded) but the sort of magic that comes from a moment’s turn […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories • Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Animals, Ann VanderMeer, Bestiary, Brian Conn, Brian Evenson, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, China Miéville, Corey Redekop, Creatures, Cryptids, cryptozoology, Dean Francis Alfar, Dexter Palmer, Eric Schaller, Fantasy, Felix Gilman, Fiction, Gio Clairval, Grimoire, Jeff Vandermeer, Joseph Nigg, Karen Heuler, Karen Lord, Karin Lowachee, Karin Tidbeck, Lisa L. Hannett, Micaela Morrissette, Michael Cisco, Michal Ajvaz, Research, Reza Negarestani, Rhys Hughes, Richard Howard, Rikki Ducornet, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Science, Short Stories, Stephen Graham Jones, The Bestiary, Vandara Singh, Weird Fiction

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Komodo

February 17, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of an ordinary woman, plucked from her (our?) plane of existence by transdimensional beings kind of like angels to do special-ops type work for them that might just bring about the end of the multiverse. Also there are ghost frogs and transdimensional komodos and a whole host of other weird things. The Review: Well, fuck. I’ve been a fan of Jeff’s for a long time but I had no idea just how weird he could get until […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Action, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Cheeky Frawg, Fantasy, Fiction, Jeff Vandermeer, Komodo, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Short Story, StoryBundle, TNBBC, Weird, Weird Fiction

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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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The Southern Reach Trilogy

September 30, 2014 by Drew

A masterpost of all three reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s exceptional, 6-out-of-5 rated Southern Reach Trilogy. ANNIHILATION: Jeff VanderMeer is one of the first authors – long before this blog was even an idea in the back of my mind – who I had the pleasure of making contact with.  I wrote a terrible short play in college set in his marvelous city called Ambergris and I’d emailed him back and forth about it, with questions about the grey caps and […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Book Reviews, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Sci-Fi, The Southern Reach Trilogy, Trilogy, Weird, Weird Fiction

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“We’re All Mad Here” with Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, and Jeff VanderMeer at Housing Works

September 23, 2014 by Drew

(photo courtesy of the Roving Typist himself, Mr. Christopher Hermelin) Last night, at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan, a convergence occurred.  A humorous, heartfelt, intelligent, and all-around awesome convergence.  Three authors were brought together to talk about how… well, how “we’re all mad here.”  Because they’re all a little crazy and hey, so are we, so it all works out. A cool slideshow greeted the packed house of attendees while we waited for Lauren Beukes (Broken Monsters), Lev Grossman (The Magician’s […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Broken Monsters, Events, Fantasy, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore, Jeff Vandermeer, Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land, The Magicians Trilogy, The Southern Reach Trilogy, We're All Mad Here, WORD Bookstore

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Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 3)

August 6, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s winter in Area X.  [REDACTED] is [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. The Southern Reach, Area X, the Séance & Science Brigade, the lighthouse, the tower/tunnel, the biologist, Control, the director… some sort of conclusion or resolution will be found, for those who dare to seek it.  But what will happen to those who do seek it will [REDACTED]. (Please note: this review will, out of some necessity, traffic in some minor spoilers from Books 1 & 2 – […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 5+, 6, Acceptance, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Speculative Fiction, The Southern Reach, The Southern Reach Trilogy

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