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A wonderful and thoughtful collection of stories, that are as much about transition as they are journeys. Very much journeys through life rather than physical journeys.'The Miller's Tale' is about the death of rural industry with the incoming industrial world. Set in the world of the aether novels, where magic can be mined, it follows the last generation of millers as he struggles to come to terms with the changing world.'The Camping Wainrights' almost fits into the subgenre of English folk-horr...
Encouraged by author's short stories Home Time and The Chop Girl which I really liked I decided to give this work a try. I think what makes author's work interesting is the atmosphere which he can build with few poetic sentences. The stories themselves are more or less engaging and I found myself forgetting them as I progressed. Some of them were too short to build anything. I liked The Camping Wainwrights in particular as it was properly atmosphere-story balanced. The rest of them weren't so to...
As I write this review, there is a single, lonely rating on this book and no other reviews. I apologize, but I can't resist … FIRST! All right, I have recovered from my temporary insanity and am now ready to get down to business. I have never before read anything by Ian R. MacLeod. I have a terrible and impoverishing addiction to purchasing titles from specialty publisher Subterranean Press, and during an all-too-common binge (this time it was Charles Stross titles), I saw this on offer, shrug...
This is a rather beautiful collection of stories, full of insight and wisdom. Journeys
...Journeys is my introduction to MacLeod's work and he strikes me as an author who is very comfortable with writing short stories. With the notable exception of Taking Good Care of Myself, the stories feel neither constrained by the word count or padded and especially the first is a problem one frequently encounters in short fiction. Although not all stories in the collection hit the bullseye, this story shows that a lot of the more exiting, experimental and innovative writing in genre fiction
Bardzo dobry zbiór opowiadań, okraszony rewelacyjną mini-powieścią - "spowiedź" kobiety przygotowującej się do odejścia na tle przemian kulturowych, społecznych, konfliktów światowych i wielkich katastrof naturalnych. Rzecz bardzo przejmująca, wręcz liryczna z nutką tajemniczości i kilkoma zaskakującymi momentami. Rzecz o tyle piękna, co interesująca. MacLeod jest dla mnie jednym z niewielu pisarzy, u których spokojne tempo narracji w żaden sposób nie razi, ani nie nuży - jego historie w jakiś m...
