I'm driving myself nuts with my anticipation for her new novel, LOW RED MOON, which will come out in 2 weeks.
I've only very recently discovered her when I bought THRESHOLD on a whim. I think "breathtaking" might be the right word to describe that novel. Maybe it is just me but this book had just everything. Great characters, prose that reads like disturbing poetry, creepy fossils, creepier Lovecraftian monsters that fuck around with time and as a direct result of that a narrative structure that may seem confusing at first but makes perfect sense at the end.
I don't like what I've written above. It does not do the book any justice but it's the best I could do.
I've since gone and read Kiernan's first novel SILK, which was very good as well, just not as incredible as THRESHOLD.
There are a lot of short stories by her in various collections that I'll have to check out soon and her previously unpublished and often rejected "real" first novel FIVE OF CUPS just came out as a limited edition hardcover. And she's just finished writing a sequel to SILK called MURDER OF ANGELS.
Anyone else here dig her stuff?
I've only very recently discovered her when I bought THRESHOLD on a whim. I think "breathtaking" might be the right word to describe that novel. Maybe it is just me but this book had just everything. Great characters, prose that reads like disturbing poetry, creepy fossils, creepier Lovecraftian monsters that fuck around with time and as a direct result of that a narrative structure that may seem confusing at first but makes perfect sense at the end.
I don't like what I've written above. It does not do the book any justice but it's the best I could do.
I've since gone and read Kiernan's first novel SILK, which was very good as well, just not as incredible as THRESHOLD.
There are a lot of short stories by her in various collections that I'll have to check out soon and her previously unpublished and often rejected "real" first novel FIVE OF CUPS just came out as a limited edition hardcover. And she's just finished writing a sequel to SILK called MURDER OF ANGELS.
Anyone else here dig her stuff?
