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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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Review: GOD IN BLACK IRON and other stories by Matthew X. Gomez
Matthew X Gomez’s literary heart and soul is in good ol’ fashioned rollicking pulp fiction, or more accurately its modern evolution New Pulp, a literary movement he’s more than lent his hand in codifying and legitimizing in his stint as an influential magazine editor. His own aptitude, budding craftsmanship/artistry, and infectious enthusiasm for the form are all on full display in these twenty-tw
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Solid assembly I'd previously read most of these tales elsewhere over the years, though many of them were gems it was a treat to rediscover. If you're looking to introduce someone to Lansdale, this wouldn't be a bad place to start. ...more |
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Mixed bag The broad strokes of this tale became fairly obvious early on, though the narrative builds up just the right kind of vivid, haunted, grimly mythical head of steam to make me want to give it a pass. The way it winds up spelling out and browbe ...more |
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Horror on multiple levels I hadn't realized going in that this was a period piece set in the 80s, hence pieced it together by the odd detail here, the even odder little behavioral detail there, and I think it had an extra unbalancing effect, which is ...more |
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In the future...Oh. Wait. By far the bleakest story I've read by Dearborn so far. Seems not all that long ago, the petty, rotten social-media-driven world of influencers pushing an addictive heathshake with deadly side effects would have been the stuf ...more |
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Always good to catch up with these guys Last year's SUGAR ON THE BONE felt in many ways like a conscious swan-song to this *checks* 35-year-running series, so another go-round with ol' Hap and Leonard was a welcome surprise. Lansdale's still got it, ...more |
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| I say this much without hyperbole: in this book, Kristin Dearborn demonstrates absolute mastery of her craft, just in terms of creating and sustaining sheer, good ol’ fashioned white-knuckle tension, terror, and thrills. For example, though it never ...more | |
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| The first thing to jump off the page and draw the reader in is the raw, sharp-toothed, unapologetically irreverent *attitude* of Clark’s narrative voice. The second is the way he paints the early 90s setting with such effortless lived-in immediacy th ...more | |
“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
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“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”
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“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
― HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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