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"Rustblind and Silverbright" is a slipstream anthology of railway stories. As with most anthologies the appreciation of the contents depends on personal likes and dislikes, and with some of the pieces I was less wowed than others. However, without a doubt, the overall gestalt of the book, the love and care with which it has been produced, and the high quality of the majority of the pieces in this anthology demands that it requires your attention. And I'm not just saying that because my story, "T...
Read Nina Allan's story 'Vivian Guppy and the Brighton Belle'. It's one of the longest stories in this book and could perhaps even be considered a novelette. The title had given me certain expectations – I was imagining a female private detective investigating the case of a missing woman in the 1950s – which were upended almost immediately: Vivian Guppy is a man, for one thing, and the Brighton Belle is a model train or, to be more specific, a model railway carriage. The story is instantly capti...
Didcotts – John Greenwood“What I required for the remainder of my life was to be left in peace to satisfy certain undimmed appetites while arranging to minimise their unpleasant consequences.”I’m not sure if the very end of this story is a friendly wink or something more unfriendly with a similar spelling. Whatever the case, in spite of the traditionally accomplished and compelling page-turning of the enjoyable story-telling in this substantive work (a mix of The Good Soldier Švejk and Kafka and...
4.5 rounded up to a 5. I have to say, this is not only one of the best anthologies I've read this year, if not the best, but one of the most cohesive from a thematic standpoint. The editor, David Rix, has done an excellent job here, putting together a number of pieces that frankly, I couldn't tear myself away from without a lot of resentment toward whatever it was that made me put the book down. I have more to say at my online reading journal, but the long and short of it is that while I have m...
Originally published at Risingshadow.Rustblind and Silverbright is an impressive and extremely well edited slipstream anthology of railway and train stories. It's an original and unique anthology that contains several different stories and offers an interesting reading experience for the readers.Just in case somebody is wondering what slipstream fiction is, I think it's good to explain what it means. Slipstream fiction is fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundar...
