The Divinity Student and Others: Novels and Stories of Michael Cisco

by Michael Cisco, Ann VanderMeer (Introduction), Jeffrey Ford (Introduction)

Michael Cisco's surreal horror is legendary and has a large cult following. Cisco also has the admiration of the best writers in the field. But never before have his works been collected in hardcover form. This collection of four novels and a short story volume uses the author's preferred texts. Each book is signed and numbered by the author.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction

600 pages, Hardcover

First published December 11, 2012

About the author

Michael Cisco is an American weird fiction writer, Deleuzian academic and a teacher, currently living in New York City. He is best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999.

He is interested in confusion.

Reviews

[Axolotl · Rating 3 out of 5]

The text feels like an extended Burroughs reference, to good effect---too long, though. Possibly I'm picking up on that due to my own extensive reading of that author and missing others in the mix?
I will read more Cisco but maintain that the handful of shorts I've read are superior to this---take Modern Cities Exist... and Thing in the Jar(probably misremembering the exact titles) as two strong cases in point. TDS is still quite readable but it is like trying to funnel Burroughsian language into a present-time narrative and while serviceable enough, is still ill-fitting.

Excited to read more--even if this didn't exactly "hit the spot".