Kraken

The high priest of the "New Weird" follows up his dreamlike policier The City & The City with this marvelous comic thriller. It starts with the theft of a giant squid, and gets infinitely stranger.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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