If you like those (and this goes for Mr. xiphias, too), read everything else, too, with the _possible_ exception of Dinner at Deviant's Palace, which is a so-so post-apocalyptic thingy.
His most recent, Declare, is a really amazing cross between spy novels and the supernatural, and works well on both levels. Plus it has some of the most intense and frightening scenes I remeber reading in a long time.
He's one of the few authors whose books I will pick up immediately, in hardcover, as soon as they show up.
His older stuff is also very neat-- The Stress of Her Regard is another story about the romantic poets.
He and James Blaylock both used to hang out with Philip K. Dick back when Dick was writing A Scanner Darkly, in which both of them appear. Blaylock does other modern fantasy, although he swings pretty viciously from whimsical to bleak and back again. Avoid his "Elfin Ship" books-- they're painfully, unreadably twee. The Last Coin is a good place to start, as it The Paper Grail.
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Date: 2004-01-19 07:37 am (UTC)If you like those (and this goes for Mr.
His most recent, Declare, is a really amazing cross between spy novels and the supernatural, and works well on both levels. Plus it has some of the most intense and frightening scenes I remeber reading in a long time.
He's one of the few authors whose books I will pick up immediately, in hardcover, as soon as they show up.
His older stuff is also very neat-- The Stress of Her Regard is another story about the romantic poets.
He and James Blaylock both used to hang out with Philip K. Dick back when Dick was writing A Scanner Darkly, in which both of them appear. Blaylock does other modern fantasy, although he swings pretty viciously from whimsical to bleak and back again. Avoid his "Elfin Ship" books-- they're painfully, unreadably twee. The Last Coin is a good place to start, as it The Paper Grail.