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There is no cyberpunk in this story despite the authors. Published in 1981 and with a feel for the night life of the era, this story is in the American paranoid tradition of seeing things that are not quite human in the interstices of urban life.This is dark fantasy far more than it is horror but is still an essay in alienation - and of degradation as the 'hero' becomes obsessed with connecting with what appears to be a new form of life lurking in his own natural eco-system, the singles bar. It
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A good collection of horror stories, many by relatively unknown writers. This series really helped spark my interest in writing horror. It came out around the time I was getting into horror. Charles Grant was an excellent editor.
I arranged my thoughts on this short story into a haiku:"Shed without notice,Decaying in the gutter,Humanity drifts."
Marvelous, of course. Some very nice pieces, in here...
Great Gibsonesque examination of isolation.
Collection of 17 short stories. Most are less than 20 pages, one is 45 pages. Most of them are so short there is no time to grasp the meat of the tale, it is all set up. I liked The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, Hearing is Believing, and Need. I did not care for Threshold, Echoes From a Darkened Stone, or Waiting For a Knight.
The Belonging Kind is a very special sort of science-fiction: one that traverses genres and yet remains firmly rooted in contemporary setting and concerns. Far more than just body horror and paranoia, The Belonging Kind is a comment on the alienation and isolation inherent to modern society. Gibson's protagonist seems somewhat of a homage to Kafka's Gregor Samsa in Die Verwandlung, but in reverse. Rather than being the everyman who suddenly realizes his alienation and is thus transformed, Gibson...
