tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13605532447126474652024-03-19T05:52:53.147+01:00The Otherlander's BlogThe blog of science fiction, fantasy and horror, brought to you by Berlin's SF&Fantasy bookshopUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-22813923581338856012020-03-24T11:03:00.002+01:002020-09-23T08:46:33.205+02:00Book Recommendations March 2020Dear Friends and Customers,<br />
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As you will know from our last newsletter, the Otherland is still open -
however, we kindly ask you to wait outside if you see that there are
five or more customers already inside, and keep your distance from other
customers while you're shopping. We take a lot of care to make your
visit as safe as possible for you and everyone else.<br />
Of course, you can also just order your books - just write us an
e-mail or call us (for the time being under +4915901500988); and by the
way, we're quite happy to talk books and give recommendations on the
phone!<br />
You can also order surprise book packages - just tell us the following:<br />
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- Which genre do you prefer?<br />
- Do you want your books in German or in English?<br />
- What have you recently read?<br />
- How many books do you want, and/or how much do you want to spend?<br />
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... then we'll send you your books and an invoice by mail!<br />
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If you want to come by, but minimize your exposure, you can also write
us in advance which books you want; we'll pack them in a bag for you and
include an invoice.<br />
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Stay safe, stay well - and take care of yourself and of others!<br />
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<b><i>Destroy All Monsters</i> by Sam J. Miller<br />
Harperteen Euro 20,00</b><br />
I remember vividly how well I liked Miller‘s <i>Blackfish City</i>.
This new novel? Ash and Solomon have had a traumatic experience when
they were twelve. Ash has suppressed all memory of it and Solomon has
retreated into an inner world populated with monsters of many shapes. If
she wants to save her friend from slipping deeper and deeper into the
Darkside, Ash has to face her past and confront whatever it is that has
happened. I don’t know about you, but I really want that mystery solved
now. I also want to know what Solomon’s Darkside looks like. From
reading <i>Blackfish City</i> I imagine it to be painted with dark but
beautiful colors – and Miller’s really good in monsters. Looking really
forward to this read!<br />
[Caro]<br />
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<b><i>Do You Dream of Terra 2 </i>by Temi Oh<br />
Saga Press Euro 9,95</b><br />
An Elite Academy in Britain trains six teenagers for a space voyage.
After a 23-year travel they shall reach Terra-Two, an earth-like planet
in a nearby solar system. Four adults round out the crew. The
undertaking becomes urgent, because Earth (as so often these days), is
dying. From what readers say about this book it seems to waver between
young adult and a novel for grown-ups. It’s clearly character- not
action-centered. The young people work out their usual anxieties and
uncertainties, but underlying the whole story there seem to be more
grown-up themes at work. What attracted me to the book (and might
eventually make me read it) is the edition we used to sell before the
one that we have now in stock. Instead of the astronaut-helmeted face,
there were two bright suns on the cover trying to penetrate the misty
haze above an unruly greenish sea. Several horizontal lines blurred and
distorted the image and the title. Strange and dreamlike, very
foreboding. And aha, dreams do figure into the story! Dreams and visions
about a utopian planet occur way ahead of the discovery of Terra Two
and the similarities between them are striking. What to make of this?!
I’d really like to give this one a try and see how/if Temi Oh (what a
great name to have!) makes it work.<br />
[Caro]<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoobN3ytTArQSZiwZo0uCNRbDze96bHqATc4FZPaxNrVKz_cQ2qrIuDlk2aZQ-rmaj0wQXPmLB4DOHS-F56g4j8t_SypAiuiy30yIqFJD_xJfa8Xo-E1ljhZhVNY1gk1WwJ7PBdq30mho/s1600/falsevalue.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="295" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoobN3ytTArQSZiwZo0uCNRbDze96bHqATc4FZPaxNrVKz_cQ2qrIuDlk2aZQ-rmaj0wQXPmLB4DOHS-F56g4j8t_SypAiuiy30yIqFJD_xJfa8Xo-E1ljhZhVNY1gk1WwJ7PBdq30mho/s200/falsevalue.jpg" width="123" /></a><b><i>False Value</i> by Ben Aaronovich<br />
Gollancz Euro 18,50</b><br />
I was wondering if we would ever get another Peter Grant novel, since
the last volume seemed, well, like the last. The faceless man was
officially toast and the story seemed more or less complete. But thanks
so much to Ben Aaronovitch there is a new novel around Peter’s exciting
life between impending fatherhood and a new job for a London start up.
Of course there are secrets hidden in the basement and Peter still can’t
get magic out of his life. Only time (if you are a slow reader) will
tell if he manages to save London this time.<br />
[Charleen]<br />
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<b><i>A Blight of Blackwings</i> by Kevin Hearne<br />
Orbit Euro 17,00</b><br />
To be honest, I was quite disappointed in this book. I loved the first
volume and couldn’t stop talking about it for weeks (thank god I am paid
to talk about books, at least once a week). Hence my excitement with
the release of volume two. I am not really sure what my problem was
here. I just felt bored and disappointed in the plot. It started too
slow and felt not as fluid as Kevin Hearne’s usual style. It also wasn’t
funny. I don’t know. I hope someone else will love it and convince me
soon to give it another chance.<br />
[Charleen]<br />
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Word Horde Euro 25,50</b><br />
Mental illness as subject matter of horror is a tricky thing... One prominent example is Paul Tremblay’s appraised <i>A Head Full of Ghosts</i>
- if you look at the novel’s goodreads page, you will see that in the
very first question asked there is laden with heavy accusation that he
does harm by linking the subject to horror. Not that I want to compare
Cushing’s <i>A Sick Gray Laugh</i> and the former in any way. I just
want to underline my first sentence that mental illnesses in horror
literature is a tricky thing. I also want to stress that Cushing manages
to handle even such a delicate subject in such an original, fantastic,
unique, funny, weird and disturbing way that I completely admire and
applaud her for this accomplishment! THIS BOOK IS A TREASURE TROVE! It
deals with Noelle Cashman (Nicole Cushing?), an acclaimed author who
suffers from anxiety, OCD and paranoid psychosis and her work is deeply
connected to her mental illness: she writes about the phantasmagoric
visions she experiences when she is unwell. But a new medication turns
all of this upside down. Even though it helps with her symptoms, (she
starts jogging, joins a softball team and regains hope) she starts
perceiving her environment covered in a thick gray coat of slime - the
Grayness.<br />
Astonishingly sane for a novel about madness and depression, this is
also an uncompromising, philosophical meditation on a wide range of
topics: history, utopian cults, literature, sports and “staying sane in
an insane world”. I love this book and THAT cover… that cover!<br />
[İnci]<br />
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<b><i>Miscreations - Gods, Monstrosities and Other Horrors</i> edited by Doug Murano, Michael Bailey<br />
Written Backwards Euro 19,00</b><br />
Having finished Ellen Datlow’s Ghost anthology, I thought I would steer
clear from horror anthologies for a while. But with beautiful, spooky
illustrations (by Hagcult), a foreword by the ravishing horror author
Alma Katsu and with an eccentric array of stylistic variety (such as
horror poems, epistolary short stories or stories in interview form,
besides your tedious normal short stories) I find it very hard to resist
this outrageous piece of work! I am looking forward to this experience!
[İnci]<br />
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Around 2050, interstellar society noticed that there was an intelligent species sitting around in the Sol system and decided to save humankind from their backwater-hellhole Earth. The consequence: A bunch of clueless humans wandering around in space and trying not to totally fuck things up …<br />
Greg Stolze is pretty much my favourite rpg author I just love reading his stuff, from his postmodern urban fantasy game Unknown Armies to his truly weird fantasy setting in Reign. Always to the point, always with a twist (usually of the knife). Termination Shock is no exception. The system is pretty simple, straightforward indie fare that puts of focus less on whether you fail or succeed, but how. The setting echoes all kinds of things from Farscape and Firefly to the Hitchhiker’s Guide and any number of Sitcoms, with plenty of room for going dramatic and dark or just flat-out goofy.<br />
[Jakob]<br />
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<b><i>The Book of Unremitting Horrors </i>by Dave Allsop and Adrian Bott<br /> Pelgrane Press Euro 31,95</b><br />
This is kind of the modern horror classic of RPG bestiaries: A collection of creatures that haunt the cityscapes, the left-behind rust belt hinterlands and the world wide web and that range in flavour roughly from Clive Barker via Thomas Ligotti to the Silent HIll computer games, from the funky-funny-gory to the quietly and seriously unsettling. Each creature comes with a piece of short fiction, a desription full of scenario hooks and stat for Pelgrane Press’s range of Gumshoe games, meaning you can use them with all these great investigative RPGs by Pelgrane: Esoterrorists, Trails of Cthulhu, Nights Black Agents, Yellow King and even Ashen Stars and Time Watch, if you feel that your SciFi-Campaign could use some bone-crunching horror!<br />
I don’t know about you, but in times when I’m horrified by something real (which frankly, I kind of am), it’s not the worst idea to focus on horrors of the imagination to take my mind of things. If you’re like me, this is the book you need on your bedside table to read a page or two each day right now. [Jakob] incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-23990199329413489132020-03-19T12:41:00.000+01:002020-03-19T12:41:12.112+01:00Newsletter in times of Corona
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<strong>Dear Friends and Customers,</strong><br />
<br />
since in Berlin bookshops are allowed to stay open (for now) we can
still welcome you at our shop! However, this might change at a days
notice, which is quite as it should be: However much we care about
keeping the Otherland open, we care more about flattening the curve ...
that's why all events at the Otherland in the coming weeks are
cancelled.<br />
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We are trying to make your visit at the Otherland as safe for you - and
for us - as possible. We take care of hand hygiene at the counter, and
we would ask you to keep your distance from other customers; also, if
there are already five or more customers in the Otherland, we would
kindly ask you to wait outside until another customer leaves.<br />
The corona virus apparently dies within 24 hours on paper - so it
probably can't hurt to put your books to the side for a day before
reading them. In general, let's take good care of each other!<br />
<br />
For everyone who prefers to (or has to) stay home, we offer shipping to
any German address on invoice - just send us an e-mail or call us. We
are also happy to discuss and recommend books at the phone. Please try
to call within our opening hours, and try again if the line is busy! You
can also send us your telephone number by e-mail and have us call you.<br />
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As it happens, our telephone is not working quite right at the moment -
if you can't reach us at 030 69505117, please try 015901500988 .<br />
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Within the next few days, you'll get our regular <span class="il">newsletter</span>
with book recommendations - we'll shine a spotlight on all-time
favourites, which we stock in sufficient quantity to get them to you in a
timely fashion!<br />
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Please stay safe, keep each other safe, give help were you can, ask for help if you need it!
incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-66538941616766778832020-03-14T09:58:00.000+01:002020-03-14T09:58:30.658+01:00Current Situation at the OtherlandOtherlanders!<br />
I am terribly sorry but ALL events that we had announced for March are cancelled in order to help stopping the further spreading of the corona virus.<br />
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That includes:<br />
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<li> The reading event tonight, March 14th, with Irish fantasy author Daniel Keyes on his book <i>The Fall of the Phoenix</i></li>
<li>The Gatherland on March 19</li>
<li>The Horror Special Book Club discussion on March 27 about Kij Johnson's <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i></li>
<li>The reading and QA with Ken Liu and Xia Jia on March 29</li>
</ul>
Terribly sorry to disappoint you, but we'd be more disappointed in ourselves if we made you sick. So try and stay healthy and promised we'll try to catch up on missed events in better times!<br />
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PS. The book club yesterday evening on Kate Heartfield's <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> DID take place, even though I forgot to post the announcement as I usually do, because I and my mind were crazy busy last week BUT let me shortly state that on my second reading I liked this book even more than the first time and would even retract my previous point of critique that it has a pacing problem towards the middle. Wish Kate Heartfield all the best finding a new publisher for it!incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-61584941747151501712020-02-26T19:38:00.000+01:002020-02-26T19:39:15.589+01:00Freshwater - Reminder and Questions for Friday's Discussion<h3>
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A friendly reminder that the next meeting of the Otherland Mythic Fiction Book Club will occur on Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m. at the Otherland bookshop in Kreuzberg. The novel we’ll be discussing—Freshwater, the highly acclaimed 2018 autobiographical debut by writer Akwaeke Emezi. Offering up a multi- perspective narrative, the Nigerian-born author stated in a 2019 New York Times interview that Freshwater is “based in indigenous West African ontology” and features a main character, Ada, who is “a spirit trapped in flesh.” To see a range of interviews from the author, helping to provide perspective on the text, please visit <a href="https://www.akwaeke.com/interviews">https://www.akwaeke.com/interviews</a><br />
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Here are some questions to help facilitate discussion on the story. We hope you can join us!<br />
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*What genre or genres would you place this book in? What are ways in which the book defies notions of traditional categorization? <br />
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*As a character who journeys through different cultures and locales, both literal and metaphysical, what aspects of Ada’s travels did you find the most compelling? <br />
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*What are your thoughts on the presentation of the entities held in Ada’s spirit/psyche? Whose presence felt the most compelling and why?<br />
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*How would you describe the characterization of Asughara? What were her motivations for her actions in the narrative? <br />
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*The contrast between traditional West African concepts of spirit selves are contrasted here with Western notions of mental health. What was your take on the book’s concept of multiple selves? Do you believe in the concept of multiple selves existing even in the absence of trauma?<br />
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incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-3810031946096070222020-02-24T11:02:00.002+01:002020-02-24T11:02:25.223+01:00Book Recommendations February 2020Our event schedule is finally taking shape and there is good news for fans of chinese SF! Especially (but not only) due to the insane success of Cixin Liu’s Trisolaris-books people hereabout started asking and wondering about similar books and thus are discovering unknown gems from the East. In cooperation with the magazine “Kapsel” which publishes SF from far Asian countries, we have the pleasure to have as our guests author, translator, anthologist Ken Liu and chinese author Xia Jia! This event will for once take place on a Sunday, March 28 and starts at 6.30 pm. Admission is free as usual.<br />
On March 5 the dice will roll again at the role playing evening. If you want to join us please drop an email to Jakob or Simon (service@otherland-berlin.de).<br />
Other than that our book clubs are thriving inexorably! While in February we still have the Mythic Fiction session to come up on Friday the 28th (we’ll be discussing <i>Freshwater</i> by Emezi, please see Clarence’s review below), on March 13th we’ll be discussing <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate (the Great) Heartfield, a historical fantasy novel about a Flemish widow declaring war to Hell, and two weeks later, March 27th, the Horror Special Book Club is finally meeting again after a longer break than usual. The theme of that session is “Creature Feature - animals in horror” and the book is <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson. All book club discussions start at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookstore. You don’t need to sign up to join us, but please do read the book in advance if you want to discuss it.<br />
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Upcoming book club books and sessions are:<br />
February 28 - <i>Freshwater</i> by Akwaeke Emezi (MYTHIC)<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield<br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson (HORROR)<br />
April 17 - <i>Jhereg</i> by Steven Brust<br />
April 24 - "Dystopias now" by Kim Stanley Robinson, together with "Why we<br />
need utopian fiction now more than ever" by Eleanor Tremeer (SPEC THEORY)<br />
May 8 - <i>Little Sister Death</i> by William Gay<br />
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<b><i>A Song For A New Day</i> by Sarah Pinsker</b><br />
<b>Berkley: €17,50</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwdtbCtedXCQFpy_DlZ6QjQHbcBBMvhxatNx02FooghI6l9kWrsb2DXmRLVzmQ538QwlewyA9h9g0wPY3SI2UHTYlJ0OFNqa1fvTzygQoG7r6zhsX5FoqP3ujNs1CO2c0LhwDz_vfthk/s1600/song.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="178" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlwdtbCtedXCQFpy_DlZ6QjQHbcBBMvhxatNx02FooghI6l9kWrsb2DXmRLVzmQ538QwlewyA9h9g0wPY3SI2UHTYlJ0OFNqa1fvTzygQoG7r6zhsX5FoqP3ujNs1CO2c0LhwDz_vfthk/s200/song.jpg" width="133" /></a>Sarah Pinsker's debut novel comes on the back of her Nebula-winning novelette "Our Lady Of The Open Road". That story is about Luce, a middle-aged guitar player and rock singer trying to make ends meet on tour, in a world where live concerts have largely been replaced by virtual reality shows. <i>A Song For A New Day</i> explores the backstory of that situation, we follow Luce throug<span id="goog_1886384001"></span><span id="goog_1886384002"></span>h earlier years and learn how she and her world were shaped. Pinsker's descriptions and observations of the nitty-gritty elements of touring life in a small band are fabulous; reading her story and novel feels like sitting on stage or in the van together with her characters. She is also an excellent science fiction worldbuilder, and the book is a thoroughly enjoyable read of a near future that does not entirely suck. <br />
Also do check out her short fiction collection <i>Sooner Or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea</i> (out now from Small Beer Press, €19) which contains the above novelette and several more of her prize-winning stories.<br />
[Marc]<br />
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<b><i>Dead Astronauts</i> by Jeff Vandermeer<br />HC: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 27,50 €<br />PB: 4th Estate: €17,00</b><br />
This one blew my mind. Here’s a book I am going to read many times over, already looking forward to the many new details and layers I’ll discover after this first reading that basically left me stunned, and in awe, by how much a story, a thesis, a plot, language itself can be chopped up and jumbled and still retain such clarity, such poignancy.<br />
The actors (among others): A blue fox. A duck with a broken wing, the Dark Bird. A Leviathan. A mad scientist called Charlie X. A lost girl called Sarah at the edge of a city in decay, hunted by pale men from the factory and haunted by images of a burning shed. <br />
The plot (if you dare call it that): A trio, attempting to invade the Company responsible for the devastation of the land and city, for mutilation, mutation and madness. They try, and fail, again and again and again, on every new timeline they create, but quitting is not an option. Barely human as they are, they manage to hold on to each other, even as they dissolve, spread, lose, get lost in that hostile, inexplicable landscape.<br />
<i>Dead Astronauts</i> is so much madder than Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy: experimental language that seeped into my mind while I was reading, so the text continued off-page long after I put down the book; devastating images of biochemical experiments on living creatures; nightmarish flashbacks of traumatizing events in somebody’s past; the cold vastness of space, in which a dead astronaut and a living are the same thing; collapsing boundaries between human and non-human, nature and the un-natural, between inner and outer space; seething hate against those who destroy habitats, nature, life, ways of living; but amidst all this, love, resilience, resistance. <br />
Apparently <i>Dead Astronauts</i> is connected to the novel <i>Borne</i> and the novella "The Strange Bird", but from my point of view, not having read the latter two, it is perfectly alright to start with the former. Taking the everything but linear narrative structure into account, I highly doubt they form a coherent ‘story’ in the traditional sense of the word.<br />
When you read this, make sure you read every single word (you’ll know what I mean when you get there). Try reading out loud, if concentration falters, and feel the text. It is remarkable.<br />
[Sarah]<br />
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<b><i>Wanderers </i>by Chuck Wendig</b><br />
<b>solaris: €25,00</b><br />
Wendig takes the zombie paradigma and shakes, turns and squeezes it until <i>Wanderers</i> comes out: an epidemic infects people and forces them to walk to an unknown destination. Obviously all of them to the same destination. They are not able to take care of themselves, they are harmless but their numbers are growing. So is the number of the people not infected, but walking with them and taking care of them.<br />
Curious what this is all about? Well, I was and I was baffled in the end. So, put on your reading shoes and wander off between the pages!<br />
[Wolf]<br />
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<b><i>The Outside</i> by Ada Hoffmann<br />Angry Robot: €16,50</b><br />
It's not so easy to classify this novel within any usual genre boundaries. It is clearly space opera, but also cosmic horror and has definite traces of New Weird in it. And that doesn't even cover the extremely interesting topic of neurodiversity that is central to both the protagonist and the plot. If all of this sounds like a hard combination to pull off, yep, I would have thought so too, but Hoffmann does it really well.<br />
The setting is the far future, humanity is ruled by artificial intelligences that are so powerful that they are referred to as gods. These gods are not exactly the benevolent kind. They help humanity mainly because the souls of dead humans are their source of power and brutally quell any instances of what they consider heresy. The protagonist, Yasira, is from a culture that prides itself on being very accommodating towards their neuroatypical members. She is herself autistic and also a genius of sorts, capable of scientific feats that are beyond normal humans, and which are of interest even to the gods. This is a fairly unconventional setup in itself, but when the titular Outside makes an appearance it becomes a different, and far stranger, game altogether.<br />
The novel is fast-paced, not afraid to throw high-level concepts together with blood-churning action, and covers a lot of ground over the course of the story. If I have one complaint then it's the fact that the unknowable horrors don't actually feel all that unknowable, there is never an instance of having the rug completely pulled out from under you that I'd hope for; Hoffmann's brand of horror is more Charles Stross than China Miéville. But that's a minor quibble, readers who want a dark space opera (and then some more dark) will not be disappointed. I'm looking forward to the sequel.<br />
[Marc]<br />
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<b><i>Sisters Of The Vast Black</i> by Lina Rather<br />Tor.com: €19,00</b><br />
An order of Catholic sisters is traversing one of a few solar systems colonised by humans.Their spaceship is a genetically modified giant sea slug, able to house and transport them and withstand “the pressures of outer space”. The Mother Superior of the order only speaks through sign language, for a very good reason. At the same time, the central Earth government is trying to reexert control over the outlying systems that have slipped from its grasp in a past disastrous civil war.<br />
The setup for this novella is interesting, the story competently told and the language poetic. And yet this book did not quite work for me. The science is loosely hashed out and there were constant easy mistakes which broke my suspension of disbelief. The plot seems too purposeful and directed, there is too little space for the characters to breathe and take on a life of their own beyond the narrative necessities. The mood and tone are well done, and if this review has made you curious then I’d still recommend you test read a few pages of this book, because its upsides may win you over in a way they did not win me.<br />
A word on pricing: at 152 pages (with lots of blank space around the margins of the print) this is a very short book, and at €19,- you are paying an order of magnitude more per word than with some bigger tomes. Tor.com has been bringing out a steady stream of novellas for the last few years, some of them excellent (the Murderbot series, “The Deep”, “Dream-Quest of Vellit-Boe”), others of lesser (or even little) quality. They are mainly sold as ebooks (for a far lower price) because paper books are quite expensive to produce in small print-runs, and regardless of literary quality the book-buying public is not ravenous for novella-length works (with exceptions, like the Martha Wells series). I for one find this strategy totally acceptable, publishing works such as “Sisters Of The Vast Black” is a wholly worthwhile endeavour. There are certainly people who will read this with pleasure despite the economic necessities, and I applaud Tor for the courage to publish a diverse set of stories that helps to make our store selection as varied as possible.<br />
[Marc]<br />
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<b><i>Freshwater </i>by Akwaeke Emezi<br />faber&faber: €11,10</b><br />
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<i>Freshwater</i> is the highly acclaimed 2018 debut by writer Akwaeke Emezi. Offering up a multi-perspective narrative, the Nigerian-born author stated in a 2019 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/books/akwaeke-emezi-pet-freshwater.html">New York Times interview</a> that <i>Freshwater</i> is “based in indigenous West African ontology” and features a main character, Ada, who is “a spirit trapped in flesh." Ada is the embodiment of a type of child spirit known as ogbanje who, in an unusual turn, continues to have access to both the ethereal realm and the earthly realm of humans. Ada thus eventually develops separate selves, an occurrence which further shapes who she is when she travels to the U.S. to attend college and faces great trauma. Taking on everything from colonialism to transgender identity, Emezi talked more about the book in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/20/akwaeke-emezi-interview-freshwater">The Guardian</a>. <br />
Emezi has asserted that the autobiographical <i>Freshwater</i> should not be categorized as a form of magical realism or speculative fiction though authors who explore the fantastic are among her favorites, including Zen Cho, N.K. Jemisin and Terry Pratchett.<br />
[Clarence]<br />
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<b>Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children #5:<i> The Conference of the Birds</i> by Ransom Riggs<br />Penguin: €18,00</b><br />
The fifth installment of Ransom Rigg’s amazing series picks up #4’s massive cliffhanger and continues just as fast. While still trying to fulfill his mission of protecting Noor, Jacob and his peculiar friends must also help to keep the peace between the American clans. <br />
This volume is much more fastpaced than the fourth, but still a great read for all who just can’t get enough of Rigg’s fantasy ladden world of peculiars, children and adults alike.<br />
[Charleen]<br />
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<b>Licanius Trilogy # 3: <i>The Light Of All That Falls</i> by James Islington<br />Orbit: €19,50</b><br />
(No Spoilers)<br />
What a pleasure it is to read the final volume of a series! I am not saying this to spite those of you who are still waiting for the latest installments in the Kingkiller Chronicles, the Song of Ice and Fire series, or Brandon Sanderson’s megalomaniacal Stormlight Archives - instead, while you wait, I recommend reading Islington’s trilogy to you. Compared to the above-cited specimen, it is fairly modest in scope (only three books, the last one a mere 830 pages), while still telling a thoroughly epic story about the end of the world and the last battle between good and evil. <br />
At the beginning of #1 (<i>The Shadow Of What Was Lost</i>) a centuries-old plot was set in motion and got the story going. In #2 (<i>A Shadow Of Things To Come</i>), we learned that there is, indeed, a plot, but that, unfortunately, the person who came up with it, despite being still alive, doesn’t remember a thing about it. Now, in #3, their memories come back to haunt them and they begin to doubt their own convictions (again) - while being fully aware of how deeply they have drawn all their present friends into the machineries of fate and time, the two basic concepts to the narration of the trilogy.<br />
Aside from all the epicness (the gigantic wall behind which grotesque monsters lurk and wait for their moment to break through; the magically powered weapons of mass destruction; the millenia-spanning scale of the saga; the Big Questions of fate and free will; the constant time travel paradoxes and the two distinct magical systems) I enjoyed reading the series because it is also a story about friendship, more than about heroism or about romance. It is about how who you can be depends on how others see you, how identity is shaped by what relationships you choose to value, and that your past does not have to dictate your future. Add to this Islington’s talent for describing scenery and the fact that he’s not overdoing it with the different angles from which the story is told and you find yourself with a solid traditional fantasy trilogy that deserves to be enjoyed in it’s own right - even if you’ve just picked it up while waiting for someone else to finish their stories.<br />
[Sarah]<br />
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<b><i>Winter of the Witch</i> by Katherine Arden<br />Del rey: €10,95</b><br />
In the final book of her “Winternight” Trilogy, Katherine Arden delivers a strong finale to what was already a fantastic series. <i>Winter of the Witch</i> picks up right where book two, <i>The Girl in the Tower</i>, left off: Moscow has been rescued just in time from burning to the ground in a terrible fire. Our heroine, Vasilisa Petrovna, is at once the instigator of the fire and the saviour of the city, putting her in a precarious position once the dust and ash have settled. It’s a typical situation for this character we’ve come to love, and it’s what makes Arden’s books so engrossing. Her characters sometimes make good decisions and sometimes make bad ones, but they always feel 100% authentic for the character in question. It makes them feel so lovably human, even when they’re actually so-called chyerti, creatures from Russian folklore. The colorful spirits are consistently the books’ most engrossing elements, often overshadowing the human storylines. Arden, who studied Russian in college and lived in Moscow, goes far deeper than your basic Baba Yaga mythology, introducing her reader to a rich world of rusalka and leshy. Mythic fiction fans be warned: these minor deities will have you up till 3 a.m. on a Wikipedia binge!<br />
But what makes <i>Winter of the Witch</i> stand out, is that Arden employs these folklore characters to tell a story that’s far more complex than any fairy tale. She deconstructs their moralistic binary, never relying on the simplistic “good vs. evil” trope. While her readers delight in the rich characters and setting of a Russian fairy tale, all the while Katherine Arden is leading them in a far more interesting direction.<br />
[Lindsay]<br />
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I just finished the Winter-Trilogy right now, too - I can’t agree more with Lindsay! And since I read the Winter-Trilogy right after I read <i>Spinning Silver</i> from Naomi Novik which takes place almost at the same time in medieval Russia I can recommend reading <i>Spinning Silver</i> too if you like the setting. Ah, aaaaand watch the 6th season of Vikings. Also medieval Russia!<br />
[Wolf]<br />
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<b><i>Echoes: The Saga anthology of Ghost Stories</i> edited by Ellen Datlow</b><br />
<b>saga: €25,50</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgc7uqiX7U4ucdyMuajvsyba-eSBTh-8ialNTpYMtFQF3Cg02H0a3X-WMbLpn3WQl-fyWIhZf_tpUIB7vsYeP9PzOq015Aa_fR0XRgb6mFwV3qo1utClB4NjT8M0KhZpHgI0nW4emwx0/s1600/echoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="177" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgc7uqiX7U4ucdyMuajvsyba-eSBTh-8ialNTpYMtFQF3Cg02H0a3X-WMbLpn3WQl-fyWIhZf_tpUIB7vsYeP9PzOq015Aa_fR0XRgb6mFwV3qo1utClB4NjT8M0KhZpHgI0nW4emwx0/s200/echoes.jpg" width="133" /></a>I once promised myself that I will not read ghost stories in bed but Ellen Datlow makes it hard for me to keep this promise… The stories in <i>Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories</i> are awesome - in whopping eight hundred pages Master Datlow lets her magic work so well that you will never want to leave this book once you have started. As I will not read these gorgeous stories before sleeping, I have been riding the Berlin Ubahn to places I really don’t need to be, just so I can read one more chapter.<br />
Beside stellar horror regulars such as John Langan, Paul Tremblay, Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Nathan Ballingrud and Stephen Graham Jones, this book also comprises names that surprise with their presence in a work of horror, like Aliette de Bodard, Richard Kadrey or Pat Cadigan and it couldn’t be more wonderful! BUT it is the unknown names in Datlow’s collections that secretly matter most. If you’re on the lookout for good horror authors, keep in mind that she has a knack for giving space to exceptional unknown authors in her anthologies and I have thereby discovered many a talented writer. This time I was impressed the writings of authors such as Terry Dowling, Allison Littlewood, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz or Bracken MacLeod, let’s see if we hear more of them.<br />
Here you can experience the full scope of ghostly presences; ghost dogs, avenging ghosts, sad ghosts, angry ghosts, funny ghosts, creepy ghosts… My favorites were Pat Cadigan’s hilariously creepy revenge story “About the O’Dells”, Gemma Files’ gradually dreadful “Puppet Motel”, Terry Dowling’s mummy-Story “The Unwrapping”, the both "simple but phew!" stories “Mee-Ow” by Garth Nix and “His Haunting” by Brian Evenson, and and and… Basically every story in this anthology is a hit and on top of everything it ends in a super cool bonus track, a novella by John Langan! A masterpiece I would not want to miss reading!<br />
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<b><i>The Twisted Ones</i> by T. Kingfisher<br />Saga: € 19,00</b>Mouse has been given a very tedious task: she needs to empty her late grandmother’s house who was a hoarder. Thankfully it is not long before she finds her also late step grandfather’s diary, where he noted some truly weird shit. Like Arthur Machen kind of weird… As she tries to make sense of what she has been reading, creepy things start to happen in real world.and with the help of the hippie commune across the road she sets off to solve the mystery that has been haunting her step grandfather. <br />
I need to heavy-heartedly admit that this was the biggest let down of the year 2020 for me so far. Main reason: this is not a horror book. At least not all the way. It starts as one, and a very good one too, and then turns into some kind of wannabe experimental dark fantasy thing. Even if you don’t mind intense non-scary dark fantasy elements in your horror, then you should be prepared for a very tiresome and annoying protagonist who just keeps on cracking jokes and does not stop. A pity, it started off as super refreshing…<br />
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<b><i>Kill Creek</i> by Scott Thomas<br />Inkshares: €18,00</b>This book has been around since 2018 and why haven’t I read this is cleverly structured, highly self aware, engrossing, absolute DELIGHT of a read before?<br />
The premise is simple enough: Four horror authors representing four different horror subgenres are invited to spend one night in a notoriously haunted house for a PR campaign organized by an utterly mysterious figure to boost their careers. It in fact starts eye rollingly stereotypical, but don’t be fooled dear horror lover! Thomas knows better than to serve you the same old story that has been circulating around for ages. “Kill Creek” is much more than a conventional horror story - a reckoning with the publishing scene, a genuine meditation on horror, an honest confrontation with hypocrisies surrounding the genre. Yet, at the same time, it is a literally hell of a story that you will find hard to put aside! <br />
[İnci]incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-15694520719030842122020-02-15T09:40:00.000+01:002020-02-15T09:40:13.897+01:00Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi<h3>
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Hey all! I’m thrilled to announce that the next meeting of the Otherland Mythic Fiction Book Club will occur on Friday, February 28, 7:30 p.m. at the Otherland bookshop in Kreuzberg. The novel we’ll be discussing—Freshwater, the highly acclaimed 2018 debut by writer Akwaeke Emezi. Offering up a multi- perspective narrative, the Nigerian-born author stated in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/books/akwaeke-emezi-pet-freshwater.html">2019 New York Times interview</a> that Freshwater is “based in indigenous West African ontology” and features a main character, Ada, who is “a spirit trapped in flesh.” Ada is the embodiment of a type of child spirit known as ogbanje who, in an unusual turn, continues to have access to both the ethereal realm and the earthly realm of humans. Ada thus eventually develops separate selves, an occurrence which further shapes who she is when she travels to the U.S. to attend college and faces great trauma.<br /><br />
Taking on everything from colonialism to transgender identity, Emezi talked more about the book in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/20/akwaeke-emezi-interview-freshwater">The Guardian</a>. Emezi has asserted that the autobiographical Freshwater should not be categorized as a form of magical realism or speculative fiction though authors who explore the fantastic are among her favorites, including Zen Cho, N.K. Jemisin and Terry Pratchett. We’ll be sure to present discussion questions via the blog on this richly textured work a few days before meeting. We hope you can join us.incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-79551779503735449772020-02-08T11:42:00.000+01:002020-02-08T11:42:46.454+01:00Neuromancer This FridayHey book clubbers,<br />
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Our current book is William Gibson's Neuromancer and the discussion starts this Friday, February 14, at 7.30 at the Otherland Bookstore as usual. Founder of Cyberpunk, master of polished depictions, a cultural earthquake, winner of the 1984 Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards OR only dated YA blubble? Let's talk about it on Friday!<br />
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The Otherland book club always takes place the second Friday of the month and
starts at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookstore (the branching sub book
clubs, Speculative Theory, Mythic Fiction and Horror, take place every
three months on any given Friday - so there is some kind of book club
every second week). There
are snacks and drinks you don't have to pay for, we're happy for every
contribution, though. You don't need to sign up to join us, but please
read the book if you want to discuss it.<br />
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Next Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions:<br />
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February 14 - <i>Neuromancer </i>by William Gibson<br />
February 28 - <i>Freshwater </i>by Akwaeke Emezi (MYTHIC)<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield <br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson (HORROR)<br />
April 17 - <i>Jhereg </i>by Steven Brust incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-74800582592728119612020-01-27T13:05:00.004+01:002020-02-07T12:18:59.528+01:00Final Girls Film Festival February 2020 Program<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Horror fans!<br />
In two weeks time (February 6th - 9th) it is the
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival again and wow, what a program! NINE shorts blocks, NINE features, international talk guests and, as usual, one self defense workshop! Not only is this the first full packed regular fest
taking place at the City Kino in Wedding, it is also the first time that the final girls go full international! I'm all excited and can't
wait. The shorts selection looks amazing as always and their features
and talks sound really exciting too.<br />
Find below their announcement and see you there maybe!<br />
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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by<br />
women*. We are committed to creating space for female voices and visions — whether <br />
monstrous, heroic, or some messy combination of the two — in the horror genre.<br />
<br />
Greetings, horror lovers! It's time for the 2020 edition of Final Girls Berlin!<br />
<br />
The fifth edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival will take place between February 6 - 9, 2020 at City Kino Wedding continuing to raise the bar by showcasing horror written directed, and/or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. <br />
<br />
Festival co-director Eli Lewy calls this year's festival edition the "most expansive and international yet, presenting a wide array of films by visionary filmmakers that represent the diversity and originality that can be found in the current horror landscape." The exciting program features eight curated short blocks and nine feature films, a horror-inspired self-defense workshop, an exhibition, a festival party with multimedia drag performances, and specialist talks on horror martyrs, made-for-TV horror, 'female monsters,' and 'bad mothers' in Mexican horror cinema.<br />
<br />
"Horror is a very elastic term," adds fellow co-director Sara Neidorf, "and we're excited to discover films that make us question and expand our conceptions of what horror can be, both in ways that are distant from and uncannily near our own realities."<br />
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<b>Feb. 6,</b><br />
<br />
<b>6 - 8 pm</b> <br />
<br />
<b>I. BAD ROMANCE (SHORTS)</b> <br />
<br />
SOMETIMES, I THINK ABOUT DYING (Dir. Stephanie Abel Horowitz, USA, 2019) <br />
ATTACHMENT (Dir. Katarzyna Babicz, Poland, 2019) <br />
CRUST (Dir. Isabella Avery, UK, 2019) <br />
SPORTS DAY (Dir. Lin Tu, China, 2019) <br />
IT'S EASIER TO RAISE CATTLE (Dir. Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia, 2017) <br />
FOYER (Dir. Sophie B. Jacques, Canada, 2019)<br />
DEEP TISSUE (Dir. Meredith Alloway, USA, 2019)<br />
<br />
<b>8 - 10 pm</b><br />
<b>CHARLIE SAYS (FEATURE)</b><br />
Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murders case. Their sentences became life imprisonment when the death penalty was lifted in California. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them. Through her, we witness their transformation as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.<br />
(Dir. Mary Harron, USA, 2019)<br />
<br />
<b>10pm - 12am</b><br />
<b>THE FATHER'S SHADOW</b><b> (FEATURE)</b><br />
Having lost her mother, a girl turns to a dubious form of magic to make her wishes come true. In the meantime, her depressed father fights to keep his job as things take a strange turn in this unique, spiritual drama with a touch of horror.<br />
(Dir. Gabriela Amaral Almeida, Brazil, 2018)<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Feb. 7</b><br />
<br />
<b>4 - 5.30 p </b><br />
<b>HORROR COMES HOME: WOMEN AND THE MADE FOR TELEVISION MOVIE 1964-1999 (TALK)</b><br />
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The birth of the made for television movie just happened to coincide with the second wave feminist movement that was erupting along the streets of the United States. Television, which has always been interested in the female demographic, represented this movement in different ways, and the telefilm became a prime space for interrogating issues that were important to women. The genre telefilms of the golden age of the seventies and well beyond also challenged common stereotypes that have afflicted female characters for years. However, the action didn’t always happen on screen. Several women worked behind the scenes and had their hand in the production of some of the most memorable television genre films. Horror Comes Home: Women and the Made for Television Movie is a retrospective on the oft-maligned made for TV genre movie, exploring how these films spoke to its female audience in a way no other medium has.<br />
Amanda Reyes is an archivist, author, film and television historian and academic. She edited and co-wrote Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999 (Headpress, 2017) which celebrates the made for television film, and was featured on Barnes and Noble’s Best of Horror list for 2017. She's been a guest speaker at international film festivals, TV movie screenings, and conferences in such places as the UK, Australia, and the United States. She's also contributed commentary tracks for several made for television Blu-Ray releases and curated a series of made for TV mystery screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse.</div>
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<br />
<b>6 - 8 pm </b></div>
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<b>II. SOCIAL ILLS (SHORTS)</b></div>
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RE-HOME (Dir. Izzy Lee, USA, 2019)<br />
WHITE GIRL (Dir. Nadia Latif, UK, 2019)<br />
EXAM (Dir. Sonia K. Hadad, Iran, 2019)<br />
SNOWFLAKES (Dir. Faye Jackson, UK, 2019)<br />
TORCHING THE DUSTIES (Dir. Marlene Goldman, Canada, 2019)<br />
TINGLE MONSTERS (Alexandra Serio, USA, 2019<br />
REFORMED (Dir. Samantha Timms, Australia, 2019)</div>
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<br />
<b>7 - 8 pm TALK</b><br />
<b>INDUSTRY TALK - ANDREA SUBISSATI</b><br />
Join Rue Morgue executive editor Andrea Subissati for an intimate chat
on the business of horror journalism. Whether you’re looking for
coverage for your latest project or to cut your teeth as a writer, don’t
miss this rare opportunity for an insider look at what editors want and
how to put your best foot forward.<br />
<br />
<b>8 - 10 pm</b><br />
<b>THE DEEPER YOU DIG (FEATURE)</b><br />
Fourteen-year-old Echo and her mother Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo's murder, and suddenly three lives collide in wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground, but Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond,Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won't stay buried.<br />
(Dirs. Toby Poser & John Adams, USA, 2019)<br />
<br />
<b>10 pm-12 am</b><br />
<b>III. GRAVEYARD SHIFT (SHORTS)</b><br />
NEUROTICA EPISODE 1: EUREKA!(Dir. Laura Moss, USA, 2019)<br />
PLAYTIME'S OVER (Dir. Tony Reames, Written by Haley Reams, USA, 2019)<br />
THE VAMPIRE OF SOHO (Dir. Andy Edwards, Produced by Patricia Rybarczyk & Tansi Inayat, UK, 2019)<br />
ALTITUDE (Dir. Nicole Scherer, Austria, 2019) PEPPER (Dir. Kate Felix, Canada, 2019)<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>11.30 pm - 2 am</b><br />
<b>FINAL GIRLS PARTY</b><br />
We will be screening experimental films and a music video followed by drag performances and DJs playing spooky music at our festival party.<br />
TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR<br />
PRICED ON A SLIDING SCALE FROM 4-8€<br />
<br />
<b>Feb.8</b><br />
<br />
<b>5 - 7pm </b><br />
<b>DARK WHISPERS (FEATURE)</b><br />
When Clara discovers her deceased mother's revered Book of Dark Whispers, she can't stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of the twisted human psyche...or, in this case, the not-so-human. From the horror of grief to roommate living disasters, from existential dread to right-swiping vampires, there's something for all tastes. The horror anthology is brought to you by eleven female directors from across Australia. (Various directors, Australia, 2019)<br />
<br />
<b>5 - 6.30 pm </b><br />
<b>IV.#METOO (SHORTS)</b><br />
WOMAN IN STALL (Dir. Madeleine Sims-Fever &Dusty Mancinell, Canada/UK, 2018)<br />
LILI (Dir. Yfke van Berckelaer, The Netherlands, 2019)<br />
THE RAT (Dir. Carlen May-Mann, USA, 2019)<br />
SAFE SPACE (Dir. Annabelle Attanasio, USA, 2019)<br />
THE FOLLOWER (Dir. Stephanie Szerlip, USA, 2019)<br />
GASLIGHT (Dir. Louisa Weichmann, Australia 2019)<br />
RAPE CARD (Dir. Madeleine Sims-Fever & Nathan Hughes-Berry, USA, 2017)<br />
<br />
<b>6.30 - 7.30 pm</b><br />
<b>HORROR TRIVIA (TALK)</b><br />
Have you ever wondered "Argh! If only pub quizzes were more horror-oriented!" or "I wish all events were hosted by drag performers!" or even "Final Girls Film Festival needs a trivia show!" <br />
Worry no more! Vanessa Júpiter, Berlin Drag Legend & Final Girls Film Festival Attendant Since its Inception is coming to test YOUR horror knowledge!<br />
The questions will cover a wide range of horror trivia, from movies to literature and comics, all hosted by the incomparable Vanessa Júpiter. Do you like horror? Do you like games?<br />
Well then, you have no excuse not to show up!<br />
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<![endif]--><b>7 - 9 pm</b><br />
<b>V. QUEER HORROR (SHORTS)</b><br />
SKIN (Audrey Rosenberg, USA, 2019)<br />
TEA PARTIES FOR BABIES (Dir. Teja LoBreglio, USA, 2019)<br />
LABRYS (Dir. BJ Colangelo, USA, 2019)<br />
BLOOD ORANGE (Dir. Aliya Haq, USA, 2018)<br />
LOVE LETTER (Dir. Zeddy Chevron, Canada, 2019)<br />
DESTRUCTION MAKES THE WORLD BURN BRIGHTER (Dir. Kalen Artinian, Canada, 2019)<br />
LONE WOLF (Dir. January Jones, Australia, 2019)<br />
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<b>7.30 - 9 pm</b><br />
<b>VI. TRUE CRIME (SHORTS)</b><br />
LAST SEEN (Dir. Drew Van Steenburgen, USA, 2019)<br />
SOUTH SHORE (Dir. Xavier Hamel,2019)<br />
PHOTOTAXIS (Dir. Melissa Ferrari, USA, 2017)<br />
WATCHING KARLA HOMOLKA (Dir. Jordan Steinhauer, Canada, 2019)<br />
KAYA (Dir. Catherine Fordham, USA, 2019)<br />
CHILDREN OF SATAN (Dir. Thea Hvistendahl, Sweden, 2019)<br />
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<b>9 - 11 pm</b><br />
<b>SWALLOW (FEATURE)</b><br />
Hunter (Haley Bennett) is a newly pregnant woman whose idyllic existence takes an alarming turn when she develops a compulsion to eat dangerous objects. As her husband (Austin Stowell) and his family tighten their control over her life, she is forced to confront the dark secret behind her uncontrollable obsession. From the producers of The Rider and The Tale, and executive producer Joe Wright (Darkest Hour), SWALLOW plays like a warped fairy tale, posing provocative questions about the expectations imposed on women, women’s control over their own bodies, and the psychologically damaging effects of patriarchal culture.<br />
(Dir. Carlo Mirabel, Prod. Mollye Asher, Mynette Louie, Carole Baraton, Frederic Fiore, Cinematography by Katelin Arizmendi, USA, 2019) <br />
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<b>11 pm - 1 am </b><br />
<b>SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (+ I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER)</b><br />
Presented in collaboration with Matchbox Cinema (Glasgow, UK) <br />
When Trish (Michele Michaels) decides to invite her high school basketball teammates over for a slumber party, she has no idea the night is going to end with an unexpected guest crashing the party: an escaped power drill-wielding killer SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE was originally penned as a parody of the slasher genre. Rehashed by producers into a 'serious' slasher, the film retains its original intentions as a celebration and acknowledgment of the ridiculousness of the genre, offering up an inversion of the male gaze and lots of murders by power tools. (Dir. Amy Holden Jones, Written by Rita Mae Brown, USA, 1982)<br />
Sarah Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing as a testament to the vision, determination, and raw talent of the Queen of Underground Cinema. I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER, a twenty-seven-minute short, is SLACKER meets Valerie Solanas, as a nineteen-year-old woman responds to catcalls, condescension, and bad sex the only way she knows how: murder. (Dir. Sarah Jacobson, USA, 1993)<br />
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<b>Feb. 9</b><br />
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<b>1 - 2 pm</b><br />
<b>SELF-DEFENSE WORKSHOP: HOW DID SHE DO THAT?</b><br />
Pretty Deadly Self Defense is back, this time taking a look at the best kick-ass scenes from your favorite films, from Buffy to Kristy, Avenged to You're Next. We'll watch a clip, break it down, and teach you the moves that have broken the backs (and hearts) of the worst of the horror movie bad guys.<br />
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<b>2 - 4 pm</b><br />
<b>TALK BY ORLA SMITH - ‘Outer threats and inner demons: The changing face of the 'female monster'</b><br />
From Julia Ducournau's RAW to Joachim Trier's THELMA, some of modern horror's greatest monsters aren't physically tangible — they're internal demons. These 'female monsters' face no antagonist but themselves and their lack of agency over their own minds. It marks a shift in interest between from horror movies interested in the external threats women face, to horror focusing on women's inner demons. Smith draws from the ideas explored in Seventh Row's book, <a href="http://feministhorrorbook.com/">Beyond empowertainment: Feminist horror and the struggle for female agency</a>. <br />
Orla Smith is a freelance film critic and the Executive Editor of <a href="http://seventh-row.com/">Seventh Row</a>, an online publication dedicated to helping you understand how your favourite films make you feel the way you do, through technical analysis and detailed interviews. Orla is based near London.<br />
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<b>4 - 6 pm</b><br />
<b>VII. BLOOD TIES (SHORTS)</b><br />
NOT A BABY (Dir. Shannon Hanmer, Canada, 2019)<br />
FIRE GIRLS (Dir. Chell Stephen, US, 2019)<br />
MAKR (Dir. Hana Kazim, UAE, 2019)<br />
WATER HORSE (Dir. Sarah Wisner & Sean Temple, USA, 2019)<br />
ELIXIR (Dir. Virginia Powers Hendry, USA, 2018) <br />
MAGGIE MAY (Dir. Mia’Kate Russell, Australia, 2018)<br />
CHANGELING (Dir. Faye Jackson, UK, 2019)<br />
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<b>4 - 6 pm</b><br />
<b>VIII. FOLK TALES (SHORTS)</b><br />
DRUM WAVE (Dir. Natalie Erika James, Australia, 2018)<br />
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BOOGEYWOMAN (Dir. Erica Scoggins, US, 2019)</div>
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THE DOULA (Dir. Sarah Welsh Elliott, USA, 2019)</div>
ALWAYS GOING NEVER GONE (Dir. Wanda Nolan, Canada, 2019)<br />
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HUNTING SEASON (Dir. Shannon Kohli, USA, 2019)</div>
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XIOMARA (Dir. Loelle Monsanto, Suriname, 2019)</div>
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VINEGAR BATHS (Dir. Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia, 2018)</div>
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We invite our visiting filmmakers to a discussion of their experiences in the horror film industry and their thoughts on the present and future state of the genre. Audience questions and contributions are very welcome.<br />
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<b>6 - 8 pm<br />TITO (FEATURE)</b><br />
Tito is trapped. With lank black hair, curlicue sideburns, and an emergency whistle dangling from his neck, he is so stricken with fear that he's developed a hunch in his back. Any attempt to venture into the outside world is met with the threat of elusive predators who hunt him relentlessly. Starved for food and security, Tito's terrorized existence threatens to overwhelm him--until the sudden arrival of a cheerful intruder, offering breakfast and protection. TITO is a story about predation, friendship, and fear told through a wildly expressive new lens.<br />
(Dir. Grace Glowicki, Canada, 2019)<br />
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<b>7 - 9 pm</b><br />
<b>ROCK PAPER SCISSORS</b><b> (FEATURE)</b><br />
The routine of eccentric, maladjusted siblings is disrupted when their half-sister arrives looking for her share of the inheritance, resulting in a series of sick games to see who is the rock, who is the paper, and who is the scissor.<br />
(Dir. Macarena García Lenzi & Martín Blousson, Argentina, 2019)<br />
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<b>9 - 11 pm<br />HAIL SATAN?</b><b> (FEATURE)</b><br />
When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and challenge corrupt authority, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humor, and a few rebellious friends, you can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, HAIL SATAN? offers a timely look at a group of often misunderstood outsiders whose unwavering commitment to social and political justice has empowered thousands of people around the world.<br />
(Dir. Penny Lane, USA, 2019)
incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-39797533276951215692020-01-20T11:10:00.001+01:002020-01-20T11:13:16.489+01:00Speculative Theory Book Club This Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The next Speculative Theory Book Club on Evan Calder Williams' <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, </i>a so-called luciferian marxist analysis of apocalyptic fantasies in capitalism,<i> </i>starts this Friday, January 24th, at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookstore.<br />
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The book club always takes place the second Friday of the month and starts at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookstore (the branching sub book clubs, Speculative Theory, Mythic Fiction and Horror, take place every three months on any given Friday - so there is some kind of book club every second week). There
are snacks and drinks you don't have to pay for, we're happy for every
contribution, though. You don't need to sign up to join us, but please
read the book if you want to discuss it.<br />
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Next Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions:<br />
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January 24 - <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i> by Evan Calder Williams(SPECTHE)<br />
February 14 - <i>Neuromancer </i>by William Gibson<br />
February 28 - <i>Freshwater </i>by Akwaeke Emezi (MYTHIC)<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield <br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson (HORROR)<br />
April 17 - <i>Jhereg </i>by Steven Brust
incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-10823575917103879182020-01-14T13:22:00.001+01:002020-01-14T15:02:04.569+01:00Book Recommendations January 2020It sounds almost ironic to wish a happy and healthy new year with a war knocking on our doors, so-called world leaders blustering, mystery diseases spreading and the climate out of joint. Alas, all we can do at the Otherland is offer you Otherlanders an escape in the shape of stories that can make you feel better, or, for the realists among you, stories that can remind you that what once was dystopia, now has moved to the current events section of your local newspaper.<br />
But whatever may happen in the new year, there are many books we know will be published and can’t wait to read and that’s definitely a good reason to look optimistically into the future! Dispersed among sections, some members of the Otherland crew share what books they are especially looking forward to in the new year! <br />
What we are very happy and excited about is that we could in 2019 welcome Lindsay Taylor and Clarence Haynes in our newsletter reviewer team! They are both avid SF/F readers and book clubbers and will continue to regularly share their invaluable opinions and assessments on latest English publications. <br />
Speaking about the book club... There has been some sorting out, so to say, of our appointments. We will continue to hold our main book club meetings on the second Friday of each month, as always. The thematically specialized Speculative Theory Book Club, Mythic Fiction Book Club and Horror Special Book Club though will take place in rotating order every three months and in January we start with the Speculative Theory Book Club. That way, there will be a wider range of events you can choose from. <br />
The next book-club date is for the Speculative Theory Book Club on January 24, where we will take a luciferian marxist look at apocalyptic movies with Evan Calder Williams’ <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i>.<br />
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The book clubs always start at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookstore. There are snacks and drinks you don't have to pay for, we're happy for every contribution, though. You don't need to sign up to join us, but please read the book if you want to discuss it.<br />
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Next Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions:<br />
<br />
January 24 - <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i> by Evan Calder Williams <br />
February 14 - <i>Neuromancer </i>by William Gibson<br />
February 28 - <i>Freshwater </i>by Akwaeke Emezi <br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield <br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson<br />
April 17 - <i>Jhereg </i>by Steven Brust <br />
Enjoy our recommendations, see you around!<br />
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What Marc is looking for in 2020:<br />
The book I am most looking forward to is <i>Perhaps the Stars</i>, the concluding volume of Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. Unfortunately it looks like that book will be delayed until 2021, so I'll have to tide over with William Gibson's <i>Agency </i>(out in January), Steven Brust's <i>The Baron Of Magister Valley</i> (a continuation of his Adrilanka series, out in July) and M. John Harrison's <i>The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again</i> (out in June). I suspect I'll survive ;-).<br />
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<b><i>The Deep </i>by Rivers Solomon</b><br />
<b>saga press Euro 22,00</b><br />
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A thought that went through my mind repeatedly while reading <i>The Deep</i> was: "this book is too short". Not just because it is a novella with the scope of a trilogy, but because at that moment I wanted to stay somewhere I could sense the story moving away from. I wanted to remain with the places and people right there, wallow some more in the wonderful language and atmosphere, instead of finding myself pulled yet deeper into the zones of pressure this book inevitably exerts on its readers.<br />
Solomon's novella is based on the song "The Deep" (itself nominated for a Hugo last year) by the experimental hip hop group Clipping., which in turn is a retelling of the myth of Drexciya (by the homonymous electro band). In this myth, a mermaid society arises in the Atlantic, as the unborn babies of African women thrown overboard by slavers transform, and emerge from their wombs adapted to a life underwater.<br />
Out of this concept, Solomon crafts an ode to remembrance, becoming and communion, with a fascinating main character caught between self-realisation, duty, and simple decency. And when the dive is over, it was not too short at all, but perfect.<br />
[Marc]<br />
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<b><i>Meet Me in the Future</i> by Kameron Hurley</b><br />
<b>tachyon Euro 23,00</b><br />
Kameron Hurley, known for several works of fiction as well as the essay collection <i>Geek Feminist Revolution</i> returned this year with a book of 16 mostly previously published stories, <i>Meet Me in the Future</i>. Journeying to different societies marked by conflict and alienation, Hurley continues to cement her reputation as a visionary, focusing on propulsive sci-fi/fantasy mixed with progressive, out-of-the-box ideas around gender, desire and identity. Among the standouts: “Elephants and Corpses”, featuring a mercenary whose soul is able to swap bodies with those who have recently departed, with the character appearing years later in “The Fisherman and the Pig.” In “When We Fall,” a lonely shipyards worker who’s almost crushed to death finds loving connection and freedom with a warship’s avatar. Contours of societies touched by secrets and suppression are seen in “The Red Secretary” and “The Sinners and the Sea,” while “The Plague Givers” offers a wider range of genders amidst lethal, body altering sorcery. Hurley proves that writing can tend to affairs of the heart in unsentimental terms with acute observations of the external. A highly recommended read. [Clarence]<br />
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<b><i>Testaments </i>by Margaret Atwood</b><br />
<b>nan a. talese Euro 26,00</b> <br />
In no way is this a worthy sequel to the <i>Handmaid's Tale</i> novel. In fact, calling <i>The Testaments </i>a poorly executed TV series tie-in would still be flattering it. Atwood remains eminently competent at stringing well-crafted sentences together, and so breezing through the book is not necessarily a chore. But the characters are unbelievable and flat, and the benefit of giving us three different viewpoints is largely negated by all of them sounding alike. The plotlines are often ridiculous. The setting feels less coherent with every new detail we learn about it. From the tone of the story it might be intended to provide a hopeful outlook on the terrors of Gilead for younger readers, a sort of “this too will pass”, in a current political climate that makes the ideas of Gilead seem all too real. But this only works if one can identify with the characters and their situation, and here Atwood throws away much that was impactful about Offred’s tale. For me this was an extremely disappointing book and I have no idea how it managed to win the Booker prize.<br />
[Marc]<br />
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<b><i>Interference </i>by Sue Burke</b><br />
<b>tor Euro 36,50</b><br />
This is the second (and therefore concluding) part of Sue Burke's Semiosis duology. Whereas the first book chronicled life in the Pax colony by jumping ahead from generation to generation, <i>Interference</i>'s main plot events take place within a few weeks. If you've read <i>Semiosis </i>and are wondering whether it's worthwhile to go on I can assure you that it is. <i>Interference </i>retains most of the predecessor's strengths while keeping the story more focussed. For those of you who haven't read <i>Semiosis</i>, you probably should :-), and there will be spoilers below.<br />
The main two plot devices of this books are changes that take place early on in the novel: a new expedition arrives from Earth, on it people of different political factions, each with their own agenda. Simultaneously, the colony discovers an area of land with creatures and plants that behave strangely and threateningly. The combination of these two changes throws up stresses within the Pax society (which now contains members of three different species) which need to be negotiated and resolved in the unique ways of Pax society. If they can be.<br />
Personally I think that the Semiosis duology is a perfect synthesis between old-school hard science fiction and the more recent approach of putting a spotlight on social and interpersonal issues. There are tons of believable and fascinating natural science in there, but at the same time the novel’s exploration of inter- and intra-species cooperation and competition make it a thoroughly modern work. Together this makes for a timeless series. I am sad to see it end so soon (I could have read a few more novels set on Pax), but looking forward to anything Sue Burke will put out in the future. [Marc]<br />
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<b><i>The Secret Commonwealth</i> - The Book of Dust Vol. 2 by Philip Pullman</b><br />
<b>knopf Euro 20,90</b><br />
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Like many young girls who read His Dark Materials<i> </i>in childhood, I adored Lyra. She was one of the few female characters in I encountered Young Adult fiction who was allowed to be heroic without always being good. In books aimed towards children, morals can be patronizingly simple: heroes win because they always do the right thing, and female characters in particular tended to be frustratingly noble. But Lyra, growing up unsupervised and half-feral on the streets of Oxford, spits, fights, and most importantly, lies. Throughout her adventures, Lyra’s gift for deception was her greatest asset. Though her cause was always worthy, she operated in a grey zone, relentlessly deceiving whomever she had to if it meant protecting those she loved.<br />
But as she grows older, Lyra is losing her sense of imagination, and with it, her capability to spin fantastic tales at the drop of a hat. She’s become susceptible to dogmatic ideologies which try to paint the world as categorically black and white. This angers her daemon, who reacts with shocking cruelty. As painful as this is for fans of Lyra and Pan, it’s also refreshing. Like Lyra, readers of His Dark Materials have grown up, and found the world to be a lot less magical than they had hoped. Though it’s jarring to see Lyra at war with half of herself, it’s also heartbreakingly familiar. Self-hatred and self-doubt are not uncommon emotions for a twenty-year-old, and for the millennials who first encountered Lyra in their youth, depression rates are at an all-time high – making it only too likely they’ll be able to relate her struggle. Far from being disappointing to see my childhood heroine in such fragile condition, it’s heartening to know that even a will as iron as Lyra’s has its moments of weakness. Ultimately, The Secret Commonwealth brought Lyra back to me in exactly the way I needed her. Just like Lyra searching for her lost imagination, I got to rediscover something I thought I had left behind in their childhood, and I couldn’t be happier to have it back.<br />
[Lindsay]<br />
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<b><i>The Secret Chapter</i> by Genevive Cogman</b><br />
<b>pan Euro 10,95</b><br />
Finally we are on the road again with Irene and Kai. This time we will not be observing truce negotiations in an alternate Paris. But Irene and Kai are tasked with art robbery in order to exchange the mentioned painting for a book that might just save a world. When have books ever not saved the world? This time Kai and Irene need to work together with other fae and dragons and arrange themselves in the middle of a very distrusting alliance. I didn’t quite finish it yet, but I can’t wait to do so!<br />
[Charleen]<br />
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<b><i>Ninth House</i> by Leigh Bardugo</b><br />
<b>gollancz Euro 17,00</b><br />
For fans of YA Fantasy, Leigh Bardugo is already a household name. With <i>Ninth House</i>, her rather startling -- yet thoroughly enjoyable -- debut in the adult market, she’s well on her way to conquering a whole new demographic. Readers familiar with the author’s “Grishaverse” novels, which include the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, might initially be taken aback by just how dark her new book is. Bardugo has never been one to shy away from uncomfortable topics, but in <i>Ninth House</i> she holds nothing back, offering a whole new side to her writing. Set at Bardugo’s alma mater, Yale University, <i>Ninth House</i> centers on Galaxy “Alex” Stern, a young woman with the ability to see the dead. Alex is a high school dropout and recovering drug addict -- not the typical Ivy League freshman. But she’s offered a full ride on the condition that she uses her uncanny ability to help police Yale’s secret societies, which use ancient magic to to enact rituals for money and power.<br />
Bardugo has a talent for constructing both worlds and characters that feel simultaneously unique and authentic. The idiosyncrasies of her characters never feel forced; she develops them slowly, peeling back layers evenly throughout the chapters, allowing them to grow into three-dimensional characters for whom the reader can feel genuine affection. The suspicious, world-weary Alex is a perfect example. Though her survival instincts make her deceitful and secretive, she still craves things like the affection of her roommates or the normalcy of a summer internship. As she navigates a situation for which she feels painfully underqualified, Alex must learn how to tell the difference between friends and enemies, and how to let those true allies help her along the way.<br />
In an interview for Bustle, Bardugo admitted she wants the book to “f*ck you up a little,” and she certainly delivers on her promise. Parts of the book are deeply unsettling, including graphic scenes of sexual assault. But violence against women is just one element of various structural power imbalances which Ninth House highlights. Due to her class, gender, and race, Alex is constantly being gaslighted by those who control revered institutions like Yale -- namely anyone white, rich, or male. Alex arrives at the university believing that her invitation to be there has guaranteed her a measure of safety, and that the façade of respectability belies honesty. But she quickly finds out that her place is not only dependent on her ability to see the dead, but her ability to toe the line. The inevitable rude awakening she encounters is a perfect example of the lengths the powerful will go to in order to maintain the status quo, and what justice looks like when the watch dogs are dependent on those they’re supposed to be watching.<br />
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What İnci is looking for in 2020:<br />
2019 was THE year of horror films. If it wasn’t the emergence of visionary new directors who actually have a story to tell, it definitely was the return of Stephen King to movies that marked 2019 as a year of horror fiction. What many people missed though, is that there is a myriad of mind blowingly gifted authors who slowly have been working their way up to the top and have announced new exciting books for 2020 - C A N ‘ T W A I T! In April 2020 Grady Hendrix strikes back with <i>The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires</i> - why does our book club never do fun stuff like that??? In mythic fiction, we discovered Silvia Moreno-Garcia, even though she has been around for years, doing lovecraftian stuff, and in the new year she comes running and thundering with the very intriguing title <i>Mexican Gothic</i>! I was all smitten with Canadian author J.F. Dubeau’s <i>A God in the Shed</i> when it was published two years ago - a nauseatingly thrilling story of a small town battling an ancient evil - and he comes back with the sequel, <i>Song of the Sandman</i> in June. In May, Josh Malerman publishes <i>Mallorie</i>, a sequel to the acclaimed <i>Birdbox</i>. Paul Tremblay has surprised us with a short story collection in 2019, but now returns to familiar ground with his next novel <i>The Survivor Song</i>.<br />
I personally have discovered the hugely talented, but unfortunately lesser known authors T.E. Grau, John Hornor Jacobs, Brian Evenson and John Langan in the past years and will be eagerly looking out for their new work. Wish you all a horrific year!<br />
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<b><i>Full Throttle</i> by Joe Hill<br /> harperluxe Euro 17,95</b><br />
<span id="goog_1374353713"></span><span id="goog_1374353714"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHvEDsRD19DnK58KZA5bXP2bEeiUbdqxy3OLKs4X9wc2_hD93TQj-mHnw_lW5B61t7cc3SMF_zh_PG-3qQwtnePlR1S7H_H3E78rmRXdhyphenhyphengjpD_qfk2Btgw-6XGtAn_FX-7eg1tQ27rg/s1600/fullthrottle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsHvEDsRD19DnK58KZA5bXP2bEeiUbdqxy3OLKs4X9wc2_hD93TQj-mHnw_lW5B61t7cc3SMF_zh_PG-3qQwtnePlR1S7H_H3E78rmRXdhyphenhyphengjpD_qfk2Btgw-6XGtAn_FX-7eg1tQ27rg/s1600/fullthrottle.jpg" /></a>Again and again I find that with the Kings (Stephen and now his son Joe Hill) even the introductions (which I usually skip) are worth my time. Quite unbelievable, but Joe says that in his early writing efforts he had his doubts about being able to write about midlife-crises and such without having been anywhere near the experience – we’re lucky that he overcame those doubts, because in the stories of <i>Full Throttle</i>, he puts himself rather convincingly into the minds of big-game hunters, ex-soldiers and fundamentalists and we, the readers, are thus blessed with a wide variety of themes and genres. Somewhere in the middle of the book I thought ‘oh great “Late Returns” (about a solution for the fear of having to die in the middle of a good book) is definitely going to be my favourite’! But!! But: ‘All I Care About Is You’ (wherein a girl‘s wishes for her sixteenth birthday in the year 2070 come true with the help of the clockwork-robot Chip – compelling, strange, sparkling and with a real heart-break ending) and ‘Mums’ (a mother and her small boy try to flee from their lives as members of a separatist household and fail – Mum turns up dead soon after and I don’t know what is more horrible: growing up in this world of lies where women are little more than slaves and building bombs is on the homeschool-curriculum or what happens after little Jack plants the seeds of Mums on his mother’s grave, muhahaaaa – you decide!) - those stories still lay before me! If that isn’t enough, there’s also a dinosaur, the son of the devil, zombies and the grass of terror…I enjoyed how Joe Hill experiments with form, writing a story in steps or twitter-messages, and was amazed how his unique style makes it so easy to dive deeply into stories that have only a limited amount of pages. Whole-heartedly recommended!!!<br />
[Caro]<br />
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<b><i>Last Ones Left Alive</i> by Sarah Davis-Goff<br /> tinder press Euro 19,00</b><br />
In her debut, Davis-Goff deals with the ever so present and, let’s face it, washed out trope of the zombie apocalypse. This is ideal for diehard fans of dystopian road stories set in Ireland, adorned with super fast zombies lurking around in packs. If you are looking for more, look further... much much further. [İnci]<br />
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<b><i>Earwig </i>by Brian Catling<br /> coronet books Euro 29,00</b><br />
At the Otherland, you either love or hate Brian Catling. I belong to the former, the ones who rushed through the Vorrh trilogy and were left sad and crushed when this strange trilogy finished. All the happier I was when I found out that a new book, <i>Earwig</i>, was being published this year: a novella about a certain Herr Aalbert Scellinc, former soldier with extraordinary hearing ability, who acquires a job of taking care of a strange young girl Mia, whose teeth are of ice and need replacing after they melt. After Herr Aalbert takes a night off for himself and visits the infamous bar “Au Métro”, their lives slowly start taking a different turn.<br />
Fans of <i>The Vorrh</i> will be happy to recognise familiar patterns in <i>Earwig </i>- Catling’s obsession with peculiar inventions, a fascination with body dysmorphia and dubious doctors, a somewhat unlikeable protagonist, slight undertones of horror and an immaculate literary style - that together with a good portion of symbolism create a short but à point, unsettling and, in the end, heartbreaking story.<br />
[İnci]<br />
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<b><i>Song for the Unravelling of the World</i> by Brian Evenson<br /> coffee house Euro 19,00</b><br />
If you enjoy New Weird that leans a little too far into the dread of body horror and you have a healthy obsession with skin - whether it is about putting it on or off, adjusting its fitting or it simply leaking off - <i>Song of the Unravelling of the World</i> is your book.<br />
Wanting to just take a quick peek to get an impression of Everson’s writing, I ended up glued to the pages of this book until I was fast finished, so it is safe to say that this collection of 22 unsettling and nauseating, but also subliminally amusing stories has wholly charmed me.<br />
Maybe because of the breadth of the spectrum of herein featured genre tropes - cosmic horror, body horror, Weird, psychological horror, mystery, you name it- or maybe simply because Evenson is a hell of an author, each story bore something deeply familiar to me. It is always unfair to compare, and yet I often found myself thinking about other horror works while reading <i>Song for the Unravelling</i> of the World - Event Horizon in “Lord of the Vats”; early King short stories in “Glasses” or “The Hole”; a sense of almost-dread reminiscent of watching Lost Highway for the first time or any Lynch for that matter - and I loved it! By the aforementioned names I dropped you have probably already guessed that Evenson’s writing is absolutely very visual and every story could easily be translated into very good indie shorts/movies. Sounds like you? <i>Song for the Unravelling of the World</i> now finally stocked in Otherland for anyone who likes their horror with a literary touch!<br />
[İnci]incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-87213019478405413262020-01-12T09:49:00.000+01:002020-01-13T12:10:20.621+01:00Unboxing Armed in Her FashionKate Heartfield is GREAT, and let me tell you why:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happiness in a a box!</td></tr>
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As it may have come to your attention, we had selected her fantasy standalone "Armed in Her Fashion" quite a while ago, but had difficulties supplying due to various problems - among other things, internal turmoils going on at publisher ChiZine. We just couldn't find any copies. In a fit of despair, Arne Beutell, List-Master of the Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club, and Marc started contacting Kate Heartfield to tell her about our situation, to which she answered that she is currently trying to recuperate the rights to this book, but still has copies that she kindly offered to send us. So imagine our joy when we received the package yesterday and unboxed a bunch of SIGNED copies of this wonderful book along with book marks, personalized Kate Heartfield stickers, promotion cards for her upcoming book and finally a super sweet letter to the book club members!<br />
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We all were delighted by her kind gesture and wish her all the best while getting the rights for her book back! Which, by the way is totally worth your time - see my <a href="https://otherland-berlin.blogspot.com/2019/01/book-recommendations-of-january-2019.html">review </a>I wrote last year.<br />
We are now stocked with signed copies of "Armed in Her Fashion" which we will be discussing on March 13th. If your new year's resolution was to read more books too, or to finally join us, or you just want to have a great historical fantasy read, you can still grab a copy at the bookstore.<br />
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Next Otherland Specualtive Fiction Book Club meetings are:<br />
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January 24 - <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i> by Evan Calder Williams (Speculative Theory BC)<br />
February 14 - <i>Neuromancer</i> by William Gibson<br />
February 28 - <i>Freshwater </i>by Akwaeke Emezi (Mythic Fiction BC)<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield<br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson (Horror Special BC)<br />
April 17 - <i>Jhereg </i>by Steven Brust<br />
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incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-41326279950887202432020-01-07T10:16:00.001+01:002020-01-08T14:31:59.773+01:00First Book Club Discussion This Year... takes place this Friday, January 10th, at 7.30 pm at the Otherland Bookshop.<br />
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The unusual 1985 work is a pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record about a future people, the Kesh. Le Guin has thrown a lot in there from Indigenous American, anarchist and Taoist themes. A great accomplishment and an interesting read to say the least, so the discussion is surely bound to be interesting too.<br />
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Next Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions:<br />
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January 10 - <i>Always Coming Home</i> by Ursula K. Le Guin<br />
January 24 - <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i> by Evan Calder Williams<br />
February 14 - <i>Neuromancer</i> by William Gibson<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield<br />
March 27 - <i>At the Mouth of the River of Bees</i> by Kij Johnson <br />
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incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-7749573082394734962019-12-24T09:28:00.003+01:002019-12-24T11:29:19.725+01:00Advent Calendar: 24th Wormhole<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Last but not least some more new weird.<br />
Hope you folks have the time to read and relax a lot over the festive days!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwbEXDdH7trz6efY8hsWavBosYcyQt7gMIqKfiFW4pyZu2hqo2jgs7E34-5DPEhW_ORLrpAejBrZ6VtdMv0Uguam2-S27GdvDOGuhc3KnCUWJ1S3WDfFR8HStcatBp2aj-x2e0N6_93tk/s1600/borne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwbEXDdH7trz6efY8hsWavBosYcyQt7gMIqKfiFW4pyZu2hqo2jgs7E34-5DPEhW_ORLrpAejBrZ6VtdMv0Uguam2-S27GdvDOGuhc3KnCUWJ1S3WDfFR8HStcatBp2aj-x2e0N6_93tk/s320/borne.jpg" width="208" /></a><i>Jakob says:</i> My Christmas present to
myself: read a book by Jeff VanderMeer. I am an avid fan not only of his
Southern Reach Trilogy, but maybe even more so of his earlier Ambergris
and Veniss novels and stories. However, I kept putting up reading one
of his more recent novels, Borne. Stupid me! Now I‘m at it, and of
course I love this post-apocalyptic story of parenthood. Especially
since the „child“ that the main character has decided to care for is a
shape-changing creature that, in its usual form, looks like an
upside-down vase with tentacles coming out of it, and that occasionally
has all kinds of eyes (bird-eyes, fish-eyes, human eyes) swirling over
its body. Would you believe that this is an endearing creature? Well, it
certainly is more endearing (and more human) than that kaiju-sized
flying bear hovering over the city …</div>
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I‘m going for the big,
gimmicky stuff, which will lure you into reading this, but the essence
of Borne is of course more than that: it is, as mentioned before, an
honest depiction of parenthood (especially the scary parts), and it
deals with heavy political stuff – like a protagonist who has spent most
of her life as a fugitive from social and ecological disaster, but
still vaguely remembers having a life where you could go to a restaurant
or even to school … the creatures and vistas of Borne are outlandish,
but the psychology of its characters (including some of the creatures)
is so close to home that it hurts - in the best way that good books can
hurt.</div>
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(What, you have already
read Borne? Then you need to go and get Dead Astronauts, VanderMeers
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incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-57912685358478939442019-12-23T10:25:00.001+01:002019-12-23T10:25:48.321+01:00Advent Calendar: 23rd WormholeEnd of year or end of time? In any case you'll need a survival guide!<br />
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<b>How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler</b><br />
<i>Wolf says:</i> For Science Fiction readers there are several plausible scenarios in which you face the fact that there is no more society-infrastructure left and you have to rebuild a livable environment with food, warmth, shelter and art from scratch. Not an easy task for a modern nerd. Ryan North's book is a shortcut for you - How to Invent Everything does provide you with exactly that: the knowledge to start from the beginning without so much trial and error. And in the end it doesn’t matter if your situation happens to be caused by a spaceship crash on a foreign planet, the result of the upcoming climate change or the Zombie-Apocalypse. <br />
“How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler” is what ist says it would be: an honest guide book for time travelers who get stranded in the past. You will learn a lot about the basics of modern life and how to invent it again - from scratch.<br />
Funny, clever, entertaining and educating. Pure nerd-stuff for survivors. <br />
https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-12058944951059246342019-12-22T09:29:00.000+01:002019-12-22T13:49:14.221+01:00Advent Calendar: 22nd WormholeOr.. let's get weird... very weird, indeed.<br />
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<b>X’s for Eyes</b><br />
<i>Caro says:</i> Wow-ow-how….<br />
What drugs does this guy do? I want some!<br />
X's for Eyes is really short. But oh my….<br />
The stuff that is happening here is just weird: devils, monsters, objects from space stranding on earth, subterranean Lovecraftian places with lots of mysteries and even weirder stuff happening inside. But the real amazing things are the very young protagonists of the story. We’re in the 50s and we’re following these two boys who are descendants of the humongous industrial corporation Sword Enterprises They’ve been trained or should I say drilled in a remote himalayan hard-core monastery (hello Bruce Wayne) and they’re acting veeery grown up, very smart-assy. And they’re talking that way too. To me it’s just plain out astonishing how Barron writes those bubblizations! Somehow … I don’t know…dialect, flippant, wise guyish… no, I can’t put my finger on it, I’m sorry – just read it! If you’re not shy of a little mind-warping horror. It‘s a lot of fun!<br />
<br />incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-29666893225372736502019-12-21T09:49:00.000+01:002019-12-21T09:49:58.301+01:00Advent Calendar: 21st WormholeLet's get political!<br />
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<b>Radicalized</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRiqgNHgJB_P198547tMb9CbMRGbQn-6WPzpqGtbv-jnjgbNsrAb63iQTY5jrM_C-HdeGw-yGy4-Dpu3Tw6TW8S2pBc7UIX9huyBqlTU311yY9fY76RTnOcLQLrAmfQIQMRKoRkJbDKo/s1600/radicalized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="306" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRiqgNHgJB_P198547tMb9CbMRGbQn-6WPzpqGtbv-jnjgbNsrAb63iQTY5jrM_C-HdeGw-yGy4-Dpu3Tw6TW8S2pBc7UIX9huyBqlTU311yY9fY76RTnOcLQLrAmfQIQMRKoRkJbDKo/s320/radicalized.jpg" width="206" /></a><i>Marc says:</i> This collection contains four thematically very different novellas. There's "Unauthorized Bread", a quintessentially Doctorowian tale about the fight for ownership with consumer technology. "Model Minority" is a superhero story on how society deals with the alien in their midst, and could not be more timely. "Radicalized" talks about desperation and online communities, and could not be more chilling. "The Masque Of The Red Death" is the story that everyone who ever felt the slightest urge to be a prepper should read, and also a fascinating display of the so-called meritocratic mindset.<br />
I've always liked Doctorow's shorter fiction, it seems to me that he pulls less punches and is willing to go where it really hurts. And despite the grimness on display he remains a fundamentally positive author who believes in humanity and the ability to do good with rational, yet empathetic, action. My favourite story in this collection was "Radicalized" itself, the protagonist Joe Gorman might just be one of the best characters Doctorow has ever written, but I'd recommend all four stories.<br />
<br />incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-26081524568990642042019-12-20T10:05:00.001+01:002019-12-20T10:05:46.941+01:00Advent Calendar: 20th WormholeJakob keeps on gushing and gushing and gushing about this book! Time to find out if you wil too...<br />
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<b>Lent</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5hlSbuTh9GuwyXWaxXC4mlegZ-J5KwQgzVz4PSdHJaQzsc3Ub1f1-S-MmvafwpBt6yWeMmrGSIBtc9J-c0Yx0kP6lufRKRIp7xvN5I0tnqlVVSTpkZftU9L1UFasnEJYuzEXo_1fbCjA/s1600/lent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="307" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5hlSbuTh9GuwyXWaxXC4mlegZ-J5KwQgzVz4PSdHJaQzsc3Ub1f1-S-MmvafwpBt6yWeMmrGSIBtc9J-c0Yx0kP6lufRKRIp7xvN5I0tnqlVVSTpkZftU9L1UFasnEJYuzEXo_1fbCjA/s320/lent.jpg" width="206" /></a><i>Jakob says:</i>This is the perfect present to pull coinesseurs of the literary and the historical novel in: Towards the end of the fifteenth century, the de-facto ruler of Florence for a few years was Girolamo Savonerola, a Dominican monk (who, as it seems, remains a controversial figure for Christians up to this day). Walton’s novel sticks close to the historical facts about Savonerola, painting him as a devout Christian, but also a social reformer. However, her Savonerola can actually see - and banish - demons, and they’re all around. Is it all just in his head? Or is his renaissance world really a magical one with demons, saints and hidden magical rituals? While you’re still trying to figure that out, Jo Walton throws you another curveball. Suddenly, history is not what it seems at all, and Savoneralo has to deal with a revelation that shakes him to the core … this historical fantasy novel with a surprising and slightly science-fictional alternate history bent may be great on several conceptual levels, but the most wonderful thing about it are its characters (keep the door closed while reading, because these people keep jumping off the page, and it’s enough of a pest to try and catch them when you only need to chase them through one room) and its pacing: While Lent can in no way be described as action packed, she spotlights only the essential moments - every sentence, every word in this book counts.incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-78500808079721729112019-12-19T10:00:00.004+01:002019-12-19T14:22:50.017+01:00Advent Calendar: 19th Wormhole<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-c9c7dceb-7fff-1b9c-cbd0-2319b5c64636" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SkBy3VEz1-yFsoyHjpqlBL2jJFAeFJSLkMiamwCyJk5krqU7fGGuNpwYgV0v6KrhiR87_ko5Kt4SoIZNXW_qW_YVVqHbRuSg3Qf5EKSoBR8loQD70QetQ2L19wgQdm_xjndNPCt_Ftc/s1600/the_river.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SkBy3VEz1-yFsoyHjpqlBL2jJFAeFJSLkMiamwCyJk5krqU7fGGuNpwYgV0v6KrhiR87_ko5Kt4SoIZNXW_qW_YVVqHbRuSg3Qf5EKSoBR8loQD70QetQ2L19wgQdm_xjndNPCt_Ftc/s320/the_river.jpg" width="232" /></a><i>İnci says:</i> Having devoured this within a day and a half during a sick leave, I was taken aback, dismayed, yes bewildered that it is only now that I discovered the unusually talented author that T.E. Grau is…<br />
In the aftermath of Vietnam, Israel Broussard is a broken man - damaged, half mad, battling insomnia, crippled by paranoia and hiding in the slums of Bangkok. A mysterious and spooky incident impels him to go and finally face that fateful night where things went so very wrong for Israel, forcing him to reclaim what is left of his life.<br />
“I Am the River” is a beautifully, beautifully written ghost/redemption story of the unusual sort that uses the “Vietnam as an experience of brokenness/madness/paranoia” trope to its full extent to create a base atmosphere, mixing it with elements of Asian horror and of lovecraftian mystery.<br />
And again - Grau has a way with words! It is sentences like “The back of the man’s neck looked like a giant thumb with the nail pulled out at the neck” or “My lungs unfold and my arms and my legs come back to me while my brain waits and my heart remembers its rhythm” that put a smile on my face despite the devastation nature of the story. The fever dreamy descriptions of madness that dominate mainly the first chapters of the book are wonderful, although they decrease throughout the book and the plot seems to take the overhand -clever pacing, really.<br />
So, fans of : ghost stories with an unusual touch, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Asian horror, literary horror, cosmic horror - this extraordinary combination is for you!</div>
incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-5680489033423948642019-12-18T10:02:00.000+01:002019-12-19T10:01:15.767+01:00Advent Calendar: 18th Wormhole<br />
We are yet another day closer to the festive season and if you still haven't got a present for that fantasy freak in your family or if you will really need a solid universe to escape to, this one's for you!<br />
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<i>Marc says:</i> The tales of Earthsea, beginning with the 1968 novel "A Wizard Of Earthsea" and <br />
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The series was originally started as fantasy for "older kids" (the "young adult" genre had not yet been invented), but it offers read- and reread-ability for people of all ages. I was given the first book for Christmas in a hectic year after I had (supposedly) reached adult age. I can still remember the serenity of reading it over the holidays. The world of Earthsea is not always a calm one, but the books lead through it at a measured pace, with time to enjoy the scenery and get to know the magical and mystical, yet always thoroughly relatable, characters. One of Le Guin's great strengths was the way she evoked pictures and moods with perfectly set words. Anyone who has ever read this series has been to places denied those who have not, places that seem as real as any you can remember from your childhood.<br />
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Reading through the whole saga also offers a fascinating view on Le Guin's growth as a writer and thinker. The erosion, and eventual obliteration, of genre tropes through the course of the books, while not the main point of their attraction, is foundational for much of the pioneering work done in fantasy even today.<br />
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And I haven't even gotten to the main attraction of why you may want to give away (and own) this particular collection, which is of course the work of Charles Vess. Vess has been a luminary in the field of fantasy illustrations for many decades. For this volume, he took over four years to research, explore and discuss the look of Earthsea with Le Guin. You can find some of their correspondence online, where they discuss at some length whether a certain house would have a stone roof or one of thatch. This unhurried mode of work, so in line with the world itself, has produced a masterful result. Earthsea in this book does not look like I had imagined it, and it doesn't look better than I imagined it (because how could it?), but it looks and feels exactly right, because it was crafted to look the way Le Guin imagined it. The book is not stuffed full with pictures (there are about 50 illustrations in total), but those that are there add perfectly to the mood and make reading Earthsea an even more beautiful experience.<br />
concluding forty years later in this volume with the (previously unpublished) short story "Firelight", are undoubtedly amongst the most renowned and influential works of fantasy. The story of a young lad going to wizard school had often been copied (to great financial success, in some cases) but you would be hard put to find anyone seriously arguing that Le Guin's original was ever surpassed.incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-27367559983985976122019-12-17T10:33:00.002+01:002019-12-17T10:34:57.474+01:00Advent Calendar: 17th Wormhole<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a581cec4-7fff-e3e1-ffc6-fb648cbb8f87" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b>DCC RPG Lankhmar Complete Collection</b><br />
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<i>Simon says:</i> DCC RPG, that’s Dungeon Crawl Classics Roleplaying Game, an old school system that borrows most of its rules and almost all of its mindset from the oldest editions of Dungeons & Dragons, but adds some quirky “modern” spice to it that makes it one of the most exciting, hilarious, surprising gaming experiences in the field. Believe me, I have played it a lot and saw many a player character die (and survive) in spectacular ways. <br />
Goodman Games now released a supplement for this game, detailing Lankhmar, the city of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, the unforgettable heroes of Fritz Leibers fantasy stories. Packaged in one of the most beautiful boxes that were published in the last couple of years, it just bursts with material. Background information, new rules, all kinds of tables, scenarios, a judge’s screen, maps, stuff, stuff, stuff, there’s hardly half a millimeter space left in the box.<br />
With the Complete Collection you get 8 additional modules on top of what comes already with the box. You are set for years of material and adventure with this extraordinary heap of DCC goodness. And it is also easily the best researched roleplaying line for Lankhmar and the world of Leiber’s heroes ever publishes. As soon as you hold this treasure box in your hand, the holidays commence.</div>
incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-25031933549678088642019-12-17T10:21:00.001+01:002019-12-17T10:34:12.894+01:00Advent Calendar: 16th WormholeThe 16th wormhole hosts a book of schemes and cabals, and Sarah is wholly intrigued...<br />
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Arkady Martine<br />
<b>A Memory called Empire</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShGPdbmM3qolltov1xWJtUeu7TaBwEB52JxnD9GsTSEKf46LL9DV14NlhiOpFw7V5ECZZbV04yhQdC2Oe7VR6tBNbHQXKWPdmsYII8pCvI-gmq8mpluXY3iy6ZfLlM1ASYsgalYW0Quc/s1600/37794149._SY475_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="307" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjShGPdbmM3qolltov1xWJtUeu7TaBwEB52JxnD9GsTSEKf46LL9DV14NlhiOpFw7V5ECZZbV04yhQdC2Oe7VR6tBNbHQXKWPdmsYII8pCvI-gmq8mpluXY3iy6ZfLlM1ASYsgalYW0Quc/s200/37794149._SY475_.jpg" width="128" /></a><i>Sarah says:</i> A young woman from a tiny independent mining station on the fringes of a vast empire is sent to the capital of that empire as the new ambassador, after her predecessor has gone MIA. She is armed with a thorough education in that empire’s language, a deep admiration for it’s cultural achievements, a diplomatic mission, and a year-old copy of the former ambassador’s consciousness built into her head that is, unfortunately, not quite working as it should. Arriving in the capital, she quickly learns that the ambassador before her has been murdered, that she, not being a citizen of the empire, is considered little more than a well-trained barbarian, that the empire is riven by internal conflict and that the independence of her home station is at risk.<br />
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“A Memory called Empire”, which was also just released in German as “Im Herzen des Imperiums” by Heyne, is a great, fast-paced, exciting, and entertaining novel about what it means to how to hold one’s own in the face of a much greater power, how to navigate in a society that doesn’t value anything other than itself and is craving constant expansion, and how to interact with a second person in your head that keeps going on and off in the most inconvenient moments. It’s fun, but not silly, deep and complex, but not exhaustingly so, linguistically and culturally informed, but not didactic; all in all, a fully achieved blend of space opera, cyberpunk, and court drama.incihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05959270144559941528noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-23229869842723242682019-12-15T08:59:00.001+01:002019-12-20T10:06:48.918+01:00Advent Calendar: 15th WormholeA little prick of the needle is waiting behind our 15h wormhole ...<br />
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A great retelling of sleeping beauty. Beautifully illustrated by Chris
Riddell, as usual. The perfect gift for that special person that likes
really really pretty books. But be warned you might be ignored as soon
as that person starts to read. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-58548642658472055472019-12-15T08:08:00.000+01:002019-12-15T08:08:15.884+01:00Advent Calendar: 14th WormholeToday, Marc is recommending an sf classic - and finds himself surprised in the end ...<br />
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<strong>The Parable Of The Sower</strong><br />
This was probably the most unexpectedly impactful book I've read this
year. More fool me, of course, none of Octavia Butler's works have ever
failed to make a deep impression. But I wasn't quite prepared to read a
novel written in the 90s that so perfectly previewed some of the things
we struggle with today.<br />
Lauren Olamina, the main character of this book, is a fifteen year old
girl living in a gated community of people barely getting by in Los
Angeles of the mid 2020s. Violent crime is rampant on the streets
outside. The only times she leaves their community is to go for gun
target practice with her father. Lauren is convinced that they will not
be able to sustain their safe space inside these walls, but her attempt
to alert people to this reality is not tolerated.<br />
Why would my Christmas recommendation be a dystopian story set in a
society disintegrating because of climate change and rampant egoism?
Don't we get enough of this in the news? The reason I am recommending
this book is that it is an optimistic tale at heart (though you might
have to stick out the second novel <em>Parable Of The Talents</em> to
truly appreciate the optimism). Lauren is a person who improves her own
fate and that of others around her through intelligence, perspicacity,
and sheer bloody-minded unwillingness to give up. She bases her actions
on her own idea of decency, not on far-fetched ideals, not on belief in
this deity or that, but rather on the recognition of the inexorability
of change, and the need to deal with life as it comes at you.<br />
Octavia Butler wrote the best monsters in literature. You will find one
(at least) of these in this book, and perhaps an idea on how to deal
with them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-81970855433724151352019-12-13T08:50:00.000+01:002019-12-13T08:50:11.088+01:00Advent Calendar - 13th WormholeBehind our 13th wormhole, somehting angry is waiting, something sentient - and smart ...<br />
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Peter Watts<br />
<strong>Peter Watts Is An Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays</strong><br />
<i>Marc says:</i> "The Perfect Gift for Someone You Don’t Like Very Much" is the headline
on our good friend Peter Watts' blog article to announce the publication
of this, his latest (and first non-fiction) book ( <a href="https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=9045" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;">https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=9045</a>
). While we would scarcely want to disagree with him, this caption also
serves as a hint for why you might want to instead gift it to people
you do like: Watts is extremely smart, funny, self-deprecating, and
honest to the point of brutality. These 51 essays on subjects as diverse
as human biases, surveillance, flesh-eating disease and the X-Men are
an optimistic celebration of life lived fiercely and simultaneously a
dissection of views held perhaps too dearly. They will make you laugh,
ponder, gasp, and maybe, above all, care.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1360553244712647465.post-14400238826433865002019-12-12T13:41:00.001+01:002019-12-14T10:18:04.504+01:00Shortly interrupting the advent craze......to remind you that we're meeting tomorrow evening for the last book club discussion of the year!<br />
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Meeting starts at 7.30 at the Otherland Bookshop as usual and the book of the evening is <i>The Silver Wind</i> by Nina Allan, which, incidentally, Jakob had reviewed in our <a href="https://otherland-berlin.blogspot.com/2019/10/book-recommendations-octobernovember.html">last newsletter</a>.<br />
It is composed of several loosely connected but highly incoherent short stories and novellas revolving marginally around the topics time and time travel and centering on the same set of characters. With <i>The Silver Wind</i>, we're ending the year on a book that is not really like any of the others we have been reading - namely more of a romance that focuses on interpersonal relationships rather than speculative content and we will see how that discussion goes! Tomorrow 7.30 pm at the Otherland! There are snacks and drinks you don't have to pay
for, we're happy for every contribution, though. You don't need to sign up to join us, but please read the book if you
want to discuss it. <br />
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Upcoming Otherland Speculative Fiction Book Club discussions are:<br />
December 13 - <i>Silver Wind</i> by Nina Allan<br />
January 10 - <i>Always Coming Home</i> by Ursula K. Le Guin<br />
January 24 - <i>Combined and Uneven Apocalypse</i> by Evan Calder Williams<br />
February 14 - <i>Neuromancer</i> by William Gibson<br />
March 13 - <i>Armed in Her Fashion</i> by Kate Heartfield
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