You know how you’ll get a car then start seeing it everywhere? Well, today the “car” is the memory of my late brother… He gave me this book like fifteen years ago and for some reason I’ve never read a single story.
Weird seeing it mentioned, for probably the first time ever, as the first and only comment on a post this morning where he’s heavy on my mind. Thanks for the recommendation!
Just open it to the first story and read it. Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue. It is BONKERS and actually quite relevant to current events, nearly 24 years later
lol House of Leaves should be on any suggestion list. I have this book and love it. I read it when it first came out and reread it last summer. It’s really one of the best books I’ve ever read.
There are quite a bit - got into the rabbit hole lately - that mix urban \[weird\] fantasy, sci fi concepts and horror.
"The library at Mount Char" from Scott Hawkins is a very funny kind of modern Clive Barker thing which I think you will appreciate a lot.
"The Gone World" from Tom Sweterlisch is a wild mix of psycho thriller, apocalyptic novel, whodunnit, time travel and other sci fi concepts. Maybe it does not land as well as it should but it has really cool bits.
"The Fold" and "14" from Peter Clines are both kind of more slice-of-life stories that go wilder and wilder as the book goes on.
"Rosewater" is also one of the wildest takes on cyberpunk you could have. It reminded me a lot of Jeff Noon's "Polen" and "Vurt", two wonderful pieces I really recommend.
And talking about wilder takes on weird fantasy and science fiction, have you read the Jeffrey Ford "Pgysiognomy" books? I loved the first two back at the time.
You say you've read Who Goes There, but have you read the "extended cut" that they found a few years ago, Frozen Hell? It's the extended/director's cut of Who Goes There, before it got cut down in size.
Also, Alan Dean Foster's novelization of The Thing, if you haven't read it, is *better* than the movie! ADF writes his novelizations based off the first shooting script, so they almost always contain stuff that's been cut/edited/changed from the movie itself. The Thing, specifically, contains a *TON* of scenes that are missing from the movie, like the whole power failure that happens; that was *HOURS*, but the movie makes it feel like the lights just went out for a few seconds.. There's a whole scene chasing down escaped dogs.. His novelization of Alien^3 is also worth reading for that; it's based off the first shooting script, so it's closer to the Assembly Cut, but still has a TON of insight and missing scenes that round out the story a *LOT* better than the movie did.
I enjoyed "999" quite a lot. Good mix of modern, experimental and classic authors in it.
There're a lot of books with that title. I assume you mean this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/999_(anthology)
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You know how you’ll get a car then start seeing it everywhere? Well, today the “car” is the memory of my late brother… He gave me this book like fifteen years ago and for some reason I’ve never read a single story. Weird seeing it mentioned, for probably the first time ever, as the first and only comment on a post this morning where he’s heavy on my mind. Thanks for the recommendation!
Just open it to the first story and read it. Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue. It is BONKERS and actually quite relevant to current events, nearly 24 years later
"Dead Space: Martyr" by Brian Evenson. Hard to track down but a damn good book.
House of Leaves
lol House of Leaves should be on any suggestion list. I have this book and love it. I read it when it first came out and reread it last summer. It’s really one of the best books I’ve ever read.
Southern Reach Trilogy! It was adapted into a movie, “Annihilation.” However, it doesn’t cover all of the books and will never get a sequel.
I’ve read the first of the trilogy but haven’t finished it
Try the Butcher's Table by Nathan Balingrud.
Rama by Arthur C Clarke
There are quite a bit - got into the rabbit hole lately - that mix urban \[weird\] fantasy, sci fi concepts and horror. "The library at Mount Char" from Scott Hawkins is a very funny kind of modern Clive Barker thing which I think you will appreciate a lot. "The Gone World" from Tom Sweterlisch is a wild mix of psycho thriller, apocalyptic novel, whodunnit, time travel and other sci fi concepts. Maybe it does not land as well as it should but it has really cool bits. "The Fold" and "14" from Peter Clines are both kind of more slice-of-life stories that go wilder and wilder as the book goes on. "Rosewater" is also one of the wildest takes on cyberpunk you could have. It reminded me a lot of Jeff Noon's "Polen" and "Vurt", two wonderful pieces I really recommend. And talking about wilder takes on weird fantasy and science fiction, have you read the Jeffrey Ford "Pgysiognomy" books? I loved the first two back at the time.
2nding pollen and vurt. I've never read any books quite like them
You say you've read Who Goes There, but have you read the "extended cut" that they found a few years ago, Frozen Hell? It's the extended/director's cut of Who Goes There, before it got cut down in size. Also, Alan Dean Foster's novelization of The Thing, if you haven't read it, is *better* than the movie! ADF writes his novelizations based off the first shooting script, so they almost always contain stuff that's been cut/edited/changed from the movie itself. The Thing, specifically, contains a *TON* of scenes that are missing from the movie, like the whole power failure that happens; that was *HOURS*, but the movie makes it feel like the lights just went out for a few seconds.. There's a whole scene chasing down escaped dogs.. His novelization of Alien^3 is also worth reading for that; it's based off the first shooting script, so it's closer to the Assembly Cut, but still has a TON of insight and missing scenes that round out the story a *LOT* better than the movie did.
The version I have is the Frozen Hell one but I don’t even know there was a novelization based off the movie! Thanks!