Errata

by Hal Duncan

Collecting for the first time, and revising for this edition, all four stories in the Errata sequence-"The City of Rotted Names," "The Prince of End Times," "The Whenever at the City's Heart," & "The Tower of Morning's Bones"-this chapbook is a cubist collage of wordplay and worldblazing, a mosaic narrative of the battle for the city of the soul. Here, fans of Vellum & Ink can delve deeper into the mythos of The Book of All Hours, while new readers will find a stand-alone story, a wild ride into the world of a work described as "the Guernica of genre fiction."

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Hal Duncan is the author of Vellum, which was a finalist for both the William H. Crawford Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. He is a member of the Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle. He lives in the West End of Glasgow.

Reviews

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Poetic and Inspires Deep Thought

I have always enjoyed the writing style of Hal Duncan from the moment I first read Vellum: The Book of All Hours. Errata is much like it, maneuvered like poetry, and sparking an existential questioning within every word printed. I enjoy Duncan's creativity and his forming of new words at the combination of two. Kissper is a favorite. I look forward to rereading Vellum for the fourth time, and hopefully I can find Ink on physical copy and finally read it. I expect to be just as pleased.

[Belle Wood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Errata is a book of short stories from the world of Vellum and Ink. Less concrete than either of those books, the stories in Errata are slightly more difficult to follow but, as always with Duncan, worth it. You don't see Phreedom, Don, Thomas or Jack, but Puck and Joey are there, although only as wisps of smoke--as with the Vellumverse, characters change, become different before your eyes with seemless evolution, become each other, and then someone else entirely.

[SyringaVulgariska · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice add on to Vellum and Ink.

[Zach · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know that someone who hasn't read Vellum & Ink would be able to get into this since those books sort of show you how to read this one, but if you were absolutely engrossed by them and need another fix of that particular brand of virtuoso narrative/linguistic/dimensional tomfoolery, then you should absolutely pick this up to stop your DTs.

[Artur Nowrot · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like I'd have to re-read Duncan's 'The Book of All Hours' to fully grasp what's going on, but I love what he's doing with language here – alliterations and rhymes in prose? That's not something you encounter every day.