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May 12, 2020

A must read, Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE is an experience worth savoring

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Joe R. Lansdale’s OF MICE AND MINESTRONE and other things Lansdale continue to garner effusive praise.

CHAR’S HORROR CORNER recommends the book.

I originally rated this 4 stars, but thinking about it overnight-I decided to change it to 5. I didn’t think about the corona virus at all when reading this, and I read it over two days, but could easily have done it in one. I wanted to savor the experience. I think you should too! The only caveat to that would be that I recommend you reading the Hap and Leonard series in order. If you do, these tales will be that much more meaningful-providing insights into the lifelong friendship of Hap and Leonard.

My highest recommendation!

Alan Cranis at BOOKGASM concurs.

A unique feature of this collection is the recipes for the food mentioned in the stories, compiled by Kasey Lansdale. They are fun to read, even if you do not prepare the dishes themselves. (But don’t worry – the recipe for the Minestrone does not include mice.)

OF MICE AND MINESTRONE is a must-read for all Lansdale devotees. If you somehow missed or avoided the previous Hap and Leonard novels or story collections – or are new to the works of this prolific and distinctive author – this anthology of stories from the duo’s early years is a wonderful introduction.

On his DAVE WRITES AND DRAWS (AND READS), David M. Simon felt much the same about the earlier HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE.

BLOOD AND LEMONADE is a hybrid beast, a group of short stories held together with loose connective tissue. If you’re new to Hap and Leonard, this is not the one to start with. For fans, though, this is a goldmine, because we get to know Hap and Leonard as young men when they first met. I loved it.

July 10, 2018

Joe R. Lansdale’s fast-paced COLD IN JULY is compelling, dark and twisted

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized char's horror corner, cold in july, elizabeth story, Joe R. Lansdale, killer joe, life between the frames, pamela scott, paper blog, particle books, reel brew, review

The recent Particle Books digital release of Joe R. Lansdale’s acclaimed COLD IN JULY has renewed interest in the thriller.

For PAPER BLOG, Pamela Scott praises the novel.

I really enjoyed this book. I was hooked from the dramatic opening. The book is packed with twists and turns. I thought I knew where the plot was going and without warning everything is turned on its head when Dane realises certain things about the robbery and the police investigation don’t add up. The plot is compelling, dark and twisted: police corruption, bad guys versus good guys and snuff movies to name but a few. COLD IN JULY ended up a lot of places I wasn’t expecting. The book is dark at times but there is also a lot of humour as well. I had a great time reading it.

CHAR’S HORROR CORNER recommends the book.

I loved the characters in this book, most especially Jim Bob, a redneck expert in the martial arts, who drives a cherry red boat of a Cadillac, and is a private investigator. His down-home sayings were hilarious and it provided that twisted humor Lansdale is known for. I also loved how the story changed throughout and how the characters developed.

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COLD IN JULY is a fast paced crime novel, with humor and horror mixed in as well as a well developed sense of honor. Set in LaBorde, a place Hap and Leonard fans will recognize, this is a Texas story, told by a Texan in the most entertaining way possible. I highly recommend it!

REEL BREW offers Double Shot: Killer Joe (2011) & Cold in July (2014).

The electric thermostat reads 93 degrees, which for New England is high enough to create one killer July. It’s also that time of the year when the summer humidity begins to weigh down on you like southern fried guilt, squeezing every ounce of sweat until there’s nothing but a worn out shell. Sounds melodramatic I know, but it’s a temperature so stifling it makes you want to curl up in front of a fan and dive into the cool heat of a neo-noir double feature. So in the lazy haze of the summertime heat, that’s exactly what I did, with William Friedkin’s Killer Joe and Jim Mickle’s Cold in July.

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Few films take a barebones plot – lets say a crime laden revenge story – and a quarter of the way through, twist it into something else entirely. For whatever reason, films nowadays tend to offer what they’ve laid out in the trailers, hoping that you like what you see. With Cold in July – based off the 1989 novel of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale – audiences are shown a synth driven neo-noir set in 1980’s Texas, and before the 30 minute mark, everything sort of metamorphosis. It’s a rare glimpse into the malleability of genre filmmaking, but when executed with precision, it becomes one of the most electrifying and wondrous acts of movie making magic.

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Rather than perfect the neo-noir genre, Jim Mickle and screenwriter Nick Damici contort their film into a much more inquisitive and often sensitive film. It’s one that prefers its chameleon skin over generic expectations with a story about those that push back against the law and the unlawful. And while Cold in July may seem like standard fare, it’s ultimately a film that knows that at the heart of genre filmmaking lies an appetite for the unconventional, where the ability to toy with expectation heightens the power of its storytelling.

LIFE BETWEEN THE FRAMES enjoys the movie.

So at first Cold in July seems like it’s going to be a thriller about Ben terrorizing the Dane family. That is what it is for a while, and Ben proves to be a capable threat, even managing to lurk inside the Dane house while it’s being watched by several police officers. Including one in the house with him. I was all set to watch this story play out, I was captivated… And then the film totally threw me for a loop and went off in a completely different direction. One that deepened the plot and widened the scope while still remaining very intriguing. Having not read the book, I did not expect the next hour of this film at all.

Scripted by Mickle and Nick Damici, Cold in July is a solid crime flick that was more than I expected. Along the way it even involves Don Johnson as a slick private investigator named Jim Bob Luke, which adds some more points to its score. Johnson has had some great roles lately, in projects like Machete, Django Unchained, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Eastbound & Down, and Brawl in Cell Block 99, and this is another great one.

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon
page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

January 9, 2017

With HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, Joe R. Lansdale delivers an impressive story

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Reviews have started appearing for the Joe R. Lansdale’s forthcoming HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE.

Char’s Horror Corner delights in the book.

Joe Lansdale can always be counted on to deliver an impressive story and in this case, he delivers several.

These short stories are presented around the framework of Hap and Leonard chatting-sometimes in Hap’s truck, sometimes at the DQ and towards the end, back home at Hap’s house with Bret and Chance. They’re almost all about Hap, but some are about both Hap and Leonard and how their friendship originally developed.

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Those two were my favorites but every story here is good and they’re all told in the trademark style of the Champion Mojo Storyteller. Which of course means, there is a lot of humor here as well as magnificent storytelling. There’s also a touch of poignancy to some of the tales and I liked that just fine. I bet you will too.

Highly recommended to fans of Joe Lansdale and the Hap and Leonard series!

Szatmári Péter at OLVASLAK likes the mosaic novel.

The dramas are really exciting in most of the novellas, there’s murder, sex, school bullying and racism as well. The dialogues are in Hap and Leonard’s well-known, great style, and there’s no political correctness around, but racism in almost all of the other characters’ talking. The reader meets with Hap’s family too: his mother takes home a 9 year old black boy, and there are even more stories about Hap’s father, who generally hated the niggers, but liked many black guys, and he was fair and very-very strong…

The best story is the 8th, where Hap and Leonard found a dead family in a boat under the water, and later they became captives of drug-dealers, who have drug in that boat. It’s exciting and it has interesting twists – it was my personal favorite in the book.

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But the overall quality of the stories are high, almost all of them are very exiting or touching. If somebody doesn’t want to start the Hap and Leonard series with the very first book, this 13th would be a good selection, and it’s obviously recommended for the existing fans too.

Photo: Karen Lansdale

For WRITER’S BONE, Sean Tuohy interviews Lansdale about RUSTY PUPPY.

Sean Tuohy: In RUSTY PUPPY we find Hap and Leonard investigating a racially motivated murder? Where did this plot line come from?

Joe Lansdale: Racially motivated murders are nothing new, but there has certainly been a lot of it in the news lately, so it seemed like the right background for a story with concerns about police corruption. I think it was an idea in the back of my mind for a long time, but there just wasn’t any plot to stick it to. I don’t plot. I get up and write, but my subconscious surely does, and I would guess it was one of the man stories it was working on, and when I sat down to write, that was the door that opened.

ST: RUSTY PUPPY is a stand-alone that is great for new fans of the series. As the creator, what would you like new readers to take away from this novel?

JL: It’s part of the Hap and Leonard series, but like all of the books, it stands alone. You need not have one to read the other. You can start anywhere. Sure, there is information from previous novels, but it’s nothing that would cause you to be lost.

ST: This is the latest entry in a much loved and long-running book series. As a writer, how do you keep yourself interested in the characters after all these years?

JL: I don’t write about them all the time. I have bursts where I do a couple Hap and Leonard novels, and as of late stories and novellas about them, and then I move on to other things. I love coming back to them. For me, I stop their aging process when I’m not writing about them. I’ve had eight years between their adventures, and I’ve had four years. And so on. I write them when I feel driven to do so. I was happy with the television series, so that may have inspired me more. But it’s the books that matter.

Lawrence Block, on his eponymous site, posted 1,000 words from
“The Projectionist,” Lansdale’s contribution to the Block-edited anthology IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW: STORIES INSPIRED BY THE PAINTINGS OF EDWARD HOPPER.

Edward Hopper painted “New York Movie” in 1939; three-quarters of a century later, Pegasus picked it for the cover of IN SUNLIGHT OR IN SHADOW. Joe Lansdale doesn’t specify the town in which “The Projectionist” takes place. It could be set almost anywhere, and could take place at almost any time.

THE PROJECTIONIST

by Joe R. Lansdale

There’s some that think I got it easy on the job, but they don’t know there’s more to it than plugging in the projector. You got to be there at the right time to change reels, and you got to have it set so it’s seamless, so none of the movie gets stuttered, you know. You don’t do that right, well, you can cause a reel to flap and there goes the movie right at the good part, or it can get hung up and the bulb will burn it. Then everyone down there starts yelling, and that’s not good for business, and it’s not good for you, the boss hears about it, and with the racket they make when the picture flubs, he hears all right.

I ain’t had that kind of thing happen to me much, two or three times on the flapping, once I got a burn on a film, but it was messed up when we got it. Was packed in wrong and got a twist in it I couldn’t see when I pulled it out. That wasn’t my fault. Even the boss could see that.

Still, you got to watch it.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story

February 15, 2016

HAP AND LEONARD is an excellent introduction to a gonzo crime series

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(Photo: Karen Lansdale)

BATTERED,
TATTERED, YELLOWED, & CREASED is thrilled by the forthcoming SundanceTV show and by the existence of two new Hap and Leonard collections.

I’ve always thought the two oddball characters, plus Lansdale’s typical wit, would make for a great TV series—think Burn Notice gone redneck noir; now that such a series exists, Tachyon is releasing two collections of Hap and Leonard stories. These collect novellas and short stories that are a bit harder-to-find for the average consumer, from signed-and-numbered small press editions. I’m reviewing the paperback collection HAP AND LEONARD here; the other is an ebook, HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, which features some of the same content with a handful of original stories, Lansdale interviewed by Rick Klaw, and an essay by Bill Crider.

Lansdale’s storytelling prowess comes in large part from his East Texas charm, profane wit, and strong characterization, with enough snappy dialogue to keep a smile on your face. The shades-of-gray world has a thick layer of grit over it, but Hap and Leonard are firmly “good guy” badasses you sympathize with and root for. While I know that novellas aren’t popular with everyone, Lansdale in particular excels at them, packing a complex plot and vivid action into under a hundred pages. “Hyenas” and “Dead Aim” are sleek reads, trimmed down to minimalist perfection; there’s not a word wasted in them, and they finish without that “but I wanted to read more” feeling that you might get from some short stories.

Stories like “The Boy Who Became Invisible” and “Not Our Kind” are a change of pace, dead serious and pretty powerful stuff without the emphasis wit or wordplay—this is Lansdale writing serious business. The first is a flashback from Hap’s childhood about a classmate named Jesse who was bullied incessantly, and—as happens too often in real life—sees even his friends like Hap desert him. He gets his revenge in the end, but it’s a hard-hitting tale that tugs at your heartstrings, and you can see how it could have influenced Hap’s later idealism. “Not Our Kind” is original to this collection, and it’s a tale of how Hap and Leonard first met in high school… needless to say, it’s also a tale about race and bullying, and overcoming the bigotry faced while growing up in 1960s East Texas. Fans ought to appreciate these the most, giving a lot of insight into the two characters by sharing important pieces of Hap’s history.

Joe Lansdale is one of the most unique and potent storytellers of our age; I’ve never seen him meet a genre whose ass he couldn’t kick, the narrative style and voice from any of his stories unmistakably Lansdale’s. The Hap and Leonard series takes a lot of crazy ideas, throws them together, and makes it all work; they’re excellent entertainment, edge-of-your-seat action one minute, gut-busting humor the next. Hap and Leonard consists of two excellent novellas, a half-dozen solid stories, and a few odds-and-ends. For newcomers, it works as a sampler plate for the novels and TV series, an excellent introduction to a gonzo crime series with lots of thrills and plenty of heart. For the fan, it’s nice to be able to read some great Hap and Leonard stories if you missed the collector’s-only editions that came before.

CHAR’S
HORROR CORNER deviates from their norm with a review of the swamp noir collection.

Hap & Leonard are hilarious! I loved this collection of short stories which jumped all over the place from serious to sad, hilarious to depressing.

As someone new to Hap & Leonard, I found this collection to be a great way to get to know them. I was already planning to make this my year of Lansdale and this was my first book of his in 2016. After getting to know Hap and Leonard: Hap being a big redneck of a white man, (soon to be played by James Purefoy, previously of THE FOLLOWING), and Leonard being a big, black, gay man and Vietnam veteran, (soon to be played by Michael Kenneth Williams, formerly Chalky White of BOARDWALK EMPIRE), I don’t know how I can help myself from continuing on with this series-in both book and television form.

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Highly recommended to fans of Joe Lansdale and to fans of great buddy stories, in general.

James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams as the titular characters in SundanceTV’s HAP AND LEONARD

At the RISINGSHADOW, Seregil of Rhiminee recommends the interesting and clever HAP AND LEONARD.

There’s a wonderful sense of pulp fiction in this collection. In my opinion, this collection is crime/pulp fiction at its best and most captivating, because the author has an eye for compelling details. It’s great that the author avoids trivial and meaningless things that have been the ruin of many crime stories.

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The characterisation is well executed, because Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are not your normal kind of characters. They’re anything but normal, because they’re intriguingly flawed and imperfect as human beings, but they grow on you and you want to find out what happens to them and how they face problems.

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The dialogues are interesting and offer wickedly clever entertainment to readers who enjoy sarcasm and irony. The author has add plenty of punch into the dialogues. He has also added a lot of amusing and witty humour to them.

It may come as a surprise for many readers that some of the dialogues contain hidden grains of wisdom and truth. Certain dialogues reflect the state of our modern society and our way of life in a surprisingly insightful and satirical way. It’s amazing how much depth and diversity you can find in this collection.

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Joe R. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard is something different and intriguing for readers who appreciate well written stories that have plenty of punch and roughness. This collection will amuse and thrill you in equal measure and it will make you think about the happenings – what more could you possibly hope to find in this kind of fiction?

Excellent collection!

At end of THE DAILY LEBANON DAILY RECORD rave of the new Hap and Leonard novel HONKY TONK SAMURAI (”a hilarious and action-packed thrill ride”), Fines Massey included a brief review of HAP AND LEONARD.

If “Honky Tonk Samurai” isn’t enough for all us fans, Tachyon Publications will be releasing a collection of Hap and Leonard short stories and novellas, including a new story, simply titled “Hap and Leonard,” on March 1. The book is a must-have for any fan of the series, but also is a great starting point. The stories give a real taste for who Hap and Leonard are and how they came to be.

Joe Lansdale with Nick Damici

SUNDANCETV asks six questions of HAP AND LEONARD Executive Producer Nick Damici.

HAP AND LEONARD Executive Producer Nick Damici discusses adapting Joe Lansdale‘s genre-blending novel for television before dispensing his best advice on how to survive the duo’s action-packed world.

Q: What is it about “Hap and Leonard” that excites you?

A: Joe Lansdale is a master of genre mixing, which is what I think Jim and I actually have done in our movies. That’s what appealed to us. HAP AND LEONARD is basically a buddy movie, and each book has a different genre, so that was very exciting. The first book is Savage Season and is like a caper movie, buried treasure and stuff like that. As the books go on, there is mystery, there are Western themes, but it is always with these two characters.

Q: What has been the most challenging part of bringing a book to the screen?

A: For me, personally, it was the way in which the books are written through Hap. It’s his perspective, and it is always a tricky thing to make a screen adaptation of a story told through the first person. That was the most difficult thing, taking this story that is all seen through one guy’s eyes and opening it up to the other characters. However, once we started, then all the pieces began to fall into place.

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, visit the Tachyon page.

Covers by Elizabeth Story

November 20, 2015

Tasty Tachyon tidbits featuring Joe R. Lansdale, Ellen Datlow, Nalo Hopkinson, and Alastair Reynolds

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized char's horror corner, chuma hill, don't want to write, dreaming about other worlds, elizabeth story, Ellen Datlow, hap and leonard, hap and leonard ride again, joe lansdale, Joe R. Lansdale, litreactor, max booth iii, nalo hopkinson, reading with hippos, reiko murakami, review, slow bullets, the monstrous, Thomas Canty

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles from cyberspace.

Over at LITREACTOR, author Max Booth III revealed his insane plan to steal Joe R. Lansdale’s wallet.

Last month, Eryk Pruitt asked me if I’d be willing to attend a book reading in Dallas. I told him I’d heavily consider it, but only if the reading fell on a Saturday. Dallas is a five hour drive from San Antonio, and it’s extremely difficult to get someone to cover my night shifts at the hotel. As it turned out, the only day the reading could possibly take place was a Thursday, so I respectfully declined his offer. Then he told me Joe R. Lansdale would be reading that night, too, so I said, “Well, all right, I guess I don’t have a choice now, but fair warning: I am going to steal Lansdale’s wallet.”

“You weren’t, uh, serious when you told me you planned to steal Joe Lansdale’s wallet…right?”

And I stared him right back down and said, “I was absolutely serious.”

“You do realize he is a martial arts expert, right? He will murder you.”

“I once murdered someone,” Jedidiah Ayres whispered.

“I’m willing to take my chances,” I said. “I didn’t drive all the way down here without any sleep to not steal Lansdale’s wallet.”

Eryk sighed. “Booth, you’re a crazy sonofabitch. I ought to kiss you.”

So we kissed, and it was good.

Meanwhile, Jedidiah continued whispering something that involved “lots of blood” and “loud, agonizing squealing”, but who knows what he meant.

Read about what happened between Booth and Lansdale at LITREACTOR.

In a somewhat surprisingly more sane corner of the Internet, CHAR’S HORROR CORNER offers a review the highly recommended THE MONSTROUS.

Overall, I found this to be an above average collection. Even though I enjoyed the stories of the lesser known (to me) authors the most, there are some excellent works by the powerhouse authors as well-Peter Straub’s “Ashputtle” was a delicious little tale of nastiness, for example.

I believe that Ellen Datlow is one of the finest anthologists around, and when I see her name as editor, I always know I will find some literary goodness within. (Plus, this one has this KILLER cover: I mean look at that thing. It’s freaking COOL!)

Highly recommended for fans of horror and dark fiction short stories!

In an overview of recent short story collections READING WITH HIPPOS discusses Nalo Hopkinson’s really good FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS.

Still, the good stories here are REALLY good. Hopkinson’s characters are refreshingly diverse—black, brown, straight, gay, male, female, teenaged, elderly—and they’re immediately knowable, despite whatever craziness might be happening around them. I don’t often get the feeling that an author had fun writing a book, but I just can’t imagine Hopkinson putting this stuff down on paper with anything but a playful smile on her face.

And lastly, a pair of reviews of Alastair Reynolds’ engaging SLOW BULLETS.

DON’T WANT TO WRITE:

As a standalone work, the pace of Slow Bullets is its biggest asset. Scur moves quickly from realisation to uniting the ship’s inhabitants to tracking down the war criminal who is to blame for her being stuck on the ship to concocting the plan to have her revenge. It hits the reader thick and fast, so much so that too many questions are left unanswered. Scur as the narrator gives little away, although indications that she may not be entirely reliable—her slow bullet malfunctions—keep the reader guessing until the conclusion.

DREAMING ABOUT OTHER WORLDS:

SLOW BULLETS has, at its core, a thoughtful idea about how little things can work big changes over time. Even the ship itself becomes a metaphorical “slow bullet” as it moves through space after being inscribed with thousands and thousands of lines of information. The problem with the book is that it takes that one idea and pounds it so hard that the reader comes away almost suffering from blunt force trauma. One almost wishes that this had been a longer work, so Reynolds could have dealt with the big idea in a more subtle manner, although that may have resulted in trying to stretch too little material into too many pages. As it is,

SLOW BULLETS

is a decent story with a well-drawn cast of characters, enough conflict to keep the story moving, and a centerpiece metaphor that is simultaneously perfectly on point, and also overused. But the story is also about how merely surviving – existing from one moment to the next – is not enough, and that is what saves it from being merely ordinary. The will to survive is driven by a cause, whether an intensely selfish and personal cause such as revenge, or an altruistic one like becoming the agent of the resurrection of human civilization. In a way, this story is like Scur: Interesting enough to be engaging, yet deeply flawed at the same time.

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD, visit the Tachyon page.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD RIDE AGAIN, visit the Tachyon page.

Covers by Elizabeth Story

For more on THE MONSTROUS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Reiko Murakami

Cover design by Elizabeth Story

For more information on FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Chuma Hill

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info about SLOW BULLETS, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover art by Thomas Canty

Design by Elizabeth Story

October 20, 2014

Enjoy the hell out of the highly recommended WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized book riot, char's horror corner, daryl gregory, elizabeth story, horror, king of the nerds!!!, kitty horror, novella, review, we are all completely fine

In addition to its inclusion on Book Riot’s Oh, the Horror: Scary Reads for the Season, Daryl Gregory’s We Are All Completely Fine garnered three recent reviews.

Kitty Horror:

This was an incredibly fast read, the author giving just enough information to keep the story moving forward without explaining each characters back story. This was maddening as the back stories sounded fascinating, only a fraction of each was given and it was impossible not to keep turning the pages to read what else might be divulged.

The characters themselves are extremely engaging, the dialogue between them felt natural for their setting and it’s interesting to see how the relationships within the group develop at each session.

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I very much enjoyed the ending as well and am quite excited to see what looks like a sequel being released next year. Highly recommended.

4 ½ stars out of 5

King of the Nerds!!!:

Daryl Gregory has crafted a chilling and emotionally engaging novella in We Are All Completely Fine. As a result I regret that I’ve not ready any of the author’s previous work. For a novella just shy of two hundred pages We Are All Completely Fine contains surprising depths thanks to sense of connectedness Gregory imbues in both his world and characters.

Char’s Horror Corner:

I enjoyed the hell out of this novella!

4 stars out of 5

For information on We Are All Completely Fine, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover design by Elizabeth Story.