Another nice review of Deb's A Book of Endings is up at Strange Horizons. Be warned, it contains a couple of spoilers.
A Book of Endings is about the liminal places where consensus reality breaks down, and about people who wake up to that fact; but crucially it is about many different such places, and many different such consensus realities—and it depicts all of those storied worlds as having space in them for failure. Intellectually, then, this is a sharp collection; stylistically, it is gentle but complex, offering deeply readable prose which feels more often than not pitch perfect—lean but pregnant, full of memorable and arresting moments and images.
I was particularly pleased to see the new stories get some good comments, and especially Problems of Light and Dark, which was one of the stories that underwent the longest journey and ended up being one of my favourites
Anyway, if you haven't bought it, go buy it.
A Book of Endings is about the liminal places where consensus reality breaks down, and about people who wake up to that fact; but crucially it is about many different such places, and many different such consensus realities—and it depicts all of those storied worlds as having space in them for failure. Intellectually, then, this is a sharp collection; stylistically, it is gentle but complex, offering deeply readable prose which feels more often than not pitch perfect—lean but pregnant, full of memorable and arresting moments and images.
I was particularly pleased to see the new stories get some good comments, and especially Problems of Light and Dark, which was one of the stories that underwent the longest journey and ended up being one of my favourites
Anyway, if you haven't bought it, go buy it.
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