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Just started Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky. I read somewhere that they purposefully wrote Stalker (which I've seen) as very different to the book, so it'll be interesting to compare.
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Finished Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark. In the afterward, the author asked why a sword-wielding fantasy hero couldn't exist in the US, which I think sums up the tone pretty well. Some fun body horror, while also touching on the real horrors of slavery and racism.
Bingo squares: Award Winner (hard), Mashup, Minority Author
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Also read Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud, which was great. Sort of a mashup of lots of things (1920s in a mental asylum, on a version of the moon that has forests, with some gothic, medical, body, and cosmic horror thrown in). Sadly too short to explore the world, though I'm hopeful the planned sequels will rectify this. Avoid if you have arachnophobia.
Bingo squares: New Release, Mashup (maybe hard?), Among the Stars (technically), (alt) A Change in Perspective. Not sure about Institutional (hard) since it's a for-profit asylum.
Crypt of the Moon Spider sounds super interesting! I'm gonna have to have a look into that one!
Will it give me arachnophobia, if I don't like spiders, but am not at the level of full blown phobia?
Ring Shout sounds interesting, but am not a fan of racism and slavery in the (fiction) books, specially the ones that go to dark places. Does it end well? 😀
Mmm if they give you the ick, then maybe avoid it. I don't think it's too bad, but YMMV, and I'd rather not mislead you accidentally.
The author actually uses a much lighter touch on the racism and mentions of slavery than I was expecting. It's there, and it ties into the story, but the focus is really more on fighting literal demonic creatures. Like I said the other week, it's really more of an action-adventure than disturbing horror. It ends mostly well, with room for a sequel.
Cool. Thanks for the info!