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2.5 rounded up for Goodreads
As with all anthologies, there are hits and misses. The high point here is Laird Barron's "Swift to Chase", an insanely great read.
This was my first read of dark science fiction and I found out it’s pretty darn interesting! I enjoyed all the stories here but there were a few I had to shake my head at. Several touched on the idea of making humans adaptable or modifying them to survive climate change and withstand nuclear radiation and acid rain.I’d like to mention a few that made me think about them after I had finished reading-How He Helped by Ramsey Campbell, Spirts by Gene O’Neill, My Father, Dr. Frankenstein by John Lang...
Unnerving Magazine ReviewThe first portion of this book had me worried. The writing is fantastic and engaging and all kinds of pretty, but when these elements come together, it’s almost become default (from what I’ve come to expect a good chunk of the time with highbrow/literary/wilting flower speculative fiction) that I expect either nothing truly to happen or there to be zero resolution or growth. A story is when the change occurs, a post-apocalyptic world, social media over-consumption shined...
Science fiction fans and horror fans don’t always see eye to eye, which is odd considering that both genres can mesh into something spectacular, if done well. Two stand-out examples are John W. Campbell’s novella “Who Goes There?” (the basis for John Carpenter’s 1982 classic film “The Thing”) and Ridley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien”, both superb fusions of sci-fi and horror.Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle have compiled a collection of short stories in “Adam’s Ladder” that successfully m...
