The digital edition of Black Static #44 is available, with fiction by Simon Avery, Tyler Keevil, Priya Sharma, Jackson Kuhl, and E. Catherine Tobler. Peter Tennant also reviews Lucy Taylor, Kate Jonez, others...and yours truly. Yes, theres an outstanding review for Autumn in the Abyss in this issue! Thanks so much for Tennants kind words. Heres a snippet from the review, his take on the title story: This is a vibrant and clever novella, Smith weaving real people such as Kerouac and Ginsberg into his narrative, and adding snippets of “news” to give it that extra frisson of verisimilitude, so that at some point we too begin to wonder if Henry Coronado ever existed. His portrait of an agoraphobic seems to be spot on, cataloguing the physical and psychological bankruptcy of the character’s situation, the attendant obesity that makes him a figure of scorn even in his own eyes, someone to elicit sympathy and/or pity from the reader. But underlying these surface details is an almost profound reverence for the use of language, a schema in which words are living things, and at the story’s core a conception of mankind’s low place in the greater scheme of things that is every bit as unnerving as the cosmic indifference of Lovecraft’s Old Ones. A subtle and multi-faceted work, this is a story that is written with the same love of language that it celebrates and which will reward future readings with ever new discoveries. ... Read the whole thing, read all the tales, reviews, everything. Enjoy! amazon/dp/B00SBH1R38/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_IgNXub1J03360
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:43:29 +0000
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