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Rhys’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rhys Hughes
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A New Universal History of Infamy
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2004
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The Smell of Telescopes
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2000
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Nowhere Near Milkwood
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2002
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Cloud Farming in Wales
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2017
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2 editions
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The Postmodern Mariner
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2008
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Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
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1995
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Yule Do Nicely
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2017
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6 editions
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Link Arms with Toads!
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2011
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The Astral Disruptor (Sampietro Mischief #1)
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2010
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5 editions
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The Phantom Festival
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2011
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3 editions
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Rhys’s Recent Updates
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| This was Nabokov's first novel and perhaps his weakest, but it's still a Nabokov, so how can I rate it under five stars? It's still a good novel. It evokes a Russia long gone, a Berlin also long gone. At an early age, Nabokov was already handling iro ...more | |
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| It's a Nabokov novel, so of course it's brilliant, and it is one of the best Nabokovs too, or at least one of his most accessible... I know someone who once said, "When I am reading Nabokov I wonder why I bother reading anyone else." An extreme state ...more | |
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| I love Steinbeck but this isn't one of his better books. It was written in the late 1950s and yet it somehow feels more dated than work he published in the 1930s and 1940s. The first third of the novel might have been written by Paul Gallico at his w ...more | |
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I read The Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage some years ago. But I hadn't read Pincher Martin and now, thanks to this volume, I have. It's a tremendous novel and my own take is that it's a time dilation story, like Ambrose Bierce's 'An Occurrence ...more |
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Um, no, not really. There are some good ideas here, specifically one good idea: that an advanced parallel Earth has exhausted its resources and must become a parasite in order to survive, exploiting lesser Earths for their resources. This conceit coul ...more |
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| A magnificent novel. It reminds me of Kipps but it's warmer and yet grittier, happier, and the author is less intrusive. This is a rags to riches story and the protagonist is a rogue, but he's certainly a lovable example of the type, without undue ma ...more | |
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| Simenon is always good, or nearly always. I have read more wordage by this author than any other, with the exception of Moorcock. I think that both authors are 'addictive' in the best sense of the term. A New Lease of Life is pure atmosphere, always ...more | |
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| William Trevor was a very good short story writer but I have doubts about the stories in this book. Certainly I would say they suffer from declining powers of composition. The stories themselves feel like they are just going through the motions, and ...more | |
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| I think the last time I read a Herbert book was in 1986. Herbert was very important to me at the time. DUNE was my entry point into the whole universe of science fiction literature, but it wasn't long after discovering it that I was hooked by the 'Ne ...more | |
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A rather extraordinary fantasy, one of the best I have read. Picturesque, atmospheric, tragicomedic. But it's not a page turner: it lacks momentum, probably the reason why it wasn't more successful among a general readership. This doesn't matter much ...more |
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“During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“The next stop is mine. You’d better follow.” “The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.”
― The Smell of Telescopes
― The Smell of Telescopes
“Clearly the world wasn’t as natural as we had always assumed. Someone or something had designed it, a joker perhaps, or if geology really was responsible, then blind physical forces had no less a sense of humour than the gods, which is not implausible.”
― Thirty Tributes to Calvino
― Thirty Tributes to Calvino
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Welsh Literature: Rhys Hughes | 2 | 22 | Feb 01, 2009 05:34PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Hi from Oregon | 8 | 32 | Feb 09, 2009 03:55PM | |
| 40k Book Club: Astral Disruption | 1 | 4 | Nov 24, 2010 05:26AM | |
| Atomic Fez Publis...: An interview with Rhys Hughes, author of Twisthorn Bellow | 3 | 17 | Dec 02, 2010 08:56AM | |
| 40k Book Club: Paul Di Filippo: The Complete Interview (Part 2) | 1 | 9 | Dec 06, 2010 11:52AM | |
| 40k Book Club: #amWriting: Rhys Hughes interviews Bruce Sterling [October, 4, 2010] | 1 | 7 | May 24, 2012 07:30AM | |
| SciFi and Fantasy...: Short Story Recommendations? | 31 | 106 | Jun 03, 2012 05:35AM | |
| Language & Grammar : Title Trek | 560 | 244 | Mar 19, 2014 07:52AM | |
| Literary Horror: Year's Best Weird Fiction edited by Simon Strantzas | 23 | 33 | Oct 25, 2016 04:48PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Track the short fiction you read in 2017 | 31 | 263 | Jan 03, 2018 11:05AM |
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