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Pandemonium: The Rite of Spring
1913 was a year of violent change. Around the world there were revolutions, strikes, assassinations and civil war. The Rite of Spring features stories set in a world that's coming of age - entering a tumultuous adolescence on the way to its terrifying maturity.
From Russia to South Africa, London to Vienna, these five stories are windows on a world that's on the verge of something big... something revolutionary.
From Russia to South Africa, London to Vienna, these five stories are windows on a world that's on the verge of something big... something revolutionary.
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First published April 6, 2014
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Jared Shurin
36 books106 followersJared Shurin has edited or co-edited over two dozen anthologies of original and reprint fiction, including The Djinn Falls in Love, The Lowest Heaven, The Outcast Hours, the Best of British Fantasy series, and The Big Book of Cyberpunk.
He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy (twice!), Shirley Jackson (twice!), and Hugo Awards (twice!), and won the British Fantasy Award (twice!).
He currently writes about strategy, books and pop culture at Raptor Velocity.
He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy (twice!), Shirley Jackson (twice!), and Hugo Awards (twice!), and won the British Fantasy Award (twice!).
He currently writes about strategy, books and pop culture at Raptor Velocity.
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May 28, 2022
An interesting range of stories set in 1913 in the Pandemonium universe.
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April 30, 2014- We have learned to be knock-kneed, awkward, angular. Discordant, to match the music. - Rose Biggin, 'The Russian Revolution'
- To the don, I said only – ‘Of that we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.’ - William Curno, 'The Invisible Rhinoceros'
- I find it beyond the bounds of plausibility that a women of noble blood should not only disrobe in public but do so in a highly suggestive manner in front of a baying pack of peasants. That alone would make it unfit for public consumption but what follows is frankly obscene and is the reason the original examiner felt it necessary to bring the film to my attention.- Martin Petto, 'Letter from the President of the British Board of Film Censors'
- The carving on the pole was a gaping sea monster, teeth bared. She imagined it as a greedy thing, like the miners. Greedy like everyone in Kimberley. She imagined the monster’s mouth as the Great Hole itself. - S.A. Partridge, 'Pick'
- Certain women’s names bloom in Freud’s mind, names which are also verbs and which therefore command a particular response: Amanda, Miranda,. from amare, she who should be loved; Miranda, from amari, she who it is fitting to admire. - Esther Saxey, 'Anxiety'
- To the don, I said only – ‘Of that we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.’ - William Curno, 'The Invisible Rhinoceros'
- I find it beyond the bounds of plausibility that a women of noble blood should not only disrobe in public but do so in a highly suggestive manner in front of a baying pack of peasants. That alone would make it unfit for public consumption but what follows is frankly obscene and is the reason the original examiner felt it necessary to bring the film to my attention.- Martin Petto, 'Letter from the President of the British Board of Film Censors'
- The carving on the pole was a gaping sea monster, teeth bared. She imagined it as a greedy thing, like the miners. Greedy like everyone in Kimberley. She imagined the monster’s mouth as the Great Hole itself. - S.A. Partridge, 'Pick'
- Certain women’s names bloom in Freud’s mind, names which are also verbs and which therefore command a particular response: Amanda, Miranda,. from amare, she who should be loved; Miranda, from amari, she who it is fitting to admire. - Esther Saxey, 'Anxiety'
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