The Silent Land

A new novel from the elegant, sophisticated, unclassifiable writer of fantastika, Graham Joyce, is always a reason to celebrate. His scenario this time out involves a married couple trapped by an avalanche in the French Pyrenees, and the Twilight-Zone creepiness that follows. A haunting meditation on individuals removed from all societal frameworks and stranded in the strange core of being.

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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