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Creatures of Will & Temper by Molly Tanzer. (Lesbian retelling of the Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde) ✨Best book I ever bought just based off the cover art
#art philosophy#oscar wilde#the picture of dorian gray#decadence philosophy#fin de siècle#mine#Molly Tanzer#death#bacchus#sexuality#hedonism#what keeps me holding on
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Spider-Man: Fake Red is a fun manga spin on the classic character
Spider-Man: Fake Red is a fun manga spin on the classic character #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel #spiderman
Yu’s new high school is kind of awful. He’s failing his classes and striking out socially. Everything changes when he finds one of Spider-Man’s costumes abandoned in an alleyway. At first, it’s fun to put on the costume and play hero, but when powerful enemies appear, Yu quickly realizes he’s out of his element. Still, with the real Spider-Man nowhere to be found, the city needs someone to save…
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[Gli spiriti ritornano a Seung Sai][Molly Tanzer]
“Gli spiriti ritornano a Seung Sai” di Molly Tanzer ci porta in viaggio attraverso un Nord America di fine Ottocento, tra una San Francisco minacciata da spiriti inquieti e le Montagne Rocciose, teatro di un’inspiegabile sparizione
Pistolera, fumatrice incallita, psicopompo taoista, Lou Merriwether potrebbe non sembrare una normale diciannovenne, ma è troppo impegnata a tenere San Francisco al sicuro da fantasmi, ombre e jiāngshī per preoccuparsene. Il suo è un lavoro importante, anche se la maggior parte della gente lo considera piuttosto macabro. Alcuni hanno persino accusato Lou di sentirsi più a suo agio con i morti che…
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#Denis Pitter#fiction#Gli spiriti ritornano a Seung Sai#LGBT#LGBTQ#Molly Tanzer#Moscabianca Edizioni#Narrativa#Psychopomp#USA#Vermilion#Vermilion: The Adventures of Lou Merriwether
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Tristan Langbroek…
I knew him. He was a rather scrawny teenager when I knew him in high school, but why is he here? He should be in Rhode Island.
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So, for the first time in a long time, it's another chapter that Arai adapted for his manga (pages 337–340 in the just released second English omnibus—I literally got my copy today!) in today's Les Mis Letters! Chapter 2.1.19, "The Battle-Field at Night," introduces towards the very end two characters who will be very important to the story going forward (even though Georges won't have very much of on-page time after this. Poor guy).
Arai starts off his Book 3, Marius, on the fields of Waterloo, with Thenardier scrounging among the bodies.
The rest of his Book 3 won't occur until much, much later in The Brick, because he lumps the Waterloo scene with Marius' introduction.
Anyway, the rest of the scene goes pretty much as it does in The Brick, and y'all should buy the manga's English translation. I spent a goodly portion of my evening reading the entirety of the second Omnibus, and aside from a couple stylistic things I personally disagree with, the translation is really good! Shoutout to Adrienne Beck, the translator, and Molly Tanzer, who worked on the adaptation, and all the other folks at Seven Seas Entertainment who made this excellent adaptation super accessible to English-speaking audiences!
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15, 38, 86 of the book asks, please :)
Hi, thank you for sending this!
15 - a book rec you really enjoyed
I want to talk about a book a friend once gifted me for my birthday: Vermillion - The Adventures of Lou Merriweather, Psychopomp by Molly Tanzer.
What's the book about: It takes place in an alternate reality in which supernatural beings such as ghosts are real. Lou is a psychopomp, someone who deals with ghosts that refuse to leave the material world. She lives with her mom, a Chinese woman, in San Francisco of the 19th century.
One day, Lou's mom tells Lou about how young Chinese men are vanishing and essentially tasks Lou with finding out what is going on. Lou's research is leading her to a sanatorium called Fountain of Youth, in the Colorado parts of the Rocky Mountains. But it's not all as it seems and especially Dr. Panacea, the owner of the sanatorium is very suspicious...
What I love about it: Everything?? Let's start with the setting: The US of the 19th century mixed with suernatural elements (ghosts, talking bears etc). The plot is very well crafted and always keeps me on my toes whenever I read it. Did I mention it's also pretty queer? Ever since I've first read it, I wished there was a sequel or more books in this world, but it's a standalone.
38 - your favourite series
I've considered a couple different series for this one, but I've decided to recommend The Memoirs of Lady Trent's Memoirs by Marie Brennan.
Basically, take Maggie Smith's character from Downton Abbey (along with the aesthetics of Edwardian/Regency/Victorian England) and put her in a Fantasy series of five books about a young woman who is set on becoming one of her countries foremost expert on the natural history of dragons.
The series follows Isabella's life from her teenage interest in dragons, to her first marriage, to her expedition to the Green Hell, to her voyage on the Basilisk, to the desert of Akhia, and finally to what (or rather, whom) she discovered in the Sanctuary of Wings (a twist so shocking, this book might as well have been an answer to the next question!)
86 - a book with an insane plot twist
Another question that made me consider multiple books. I wanted to make sure it really *is* a really good plot twist. Is it only "insane" if you don't see it coming? But maybe that doesn't really constitute good writing.
It's ultimately come down to a tie: The Woman in White and The Moonstone, both by Wilkie Collins - a 19th century English novelist, so these books take place in that time period.
The Woman in White follows 28 y/o Walter Hartright, an art teacher who finds himself employed by a gentleman named Frederick Fairlie and falls in love with Mr Fairlie's niece, Laura. She looks stunningly similar to a woman Walter met when he was travelling to the Fairlie's house, who dresses all in white and claims to have been unfairly put in an asylum by a baronet named Sir Percival Glyde, who is also engaged to Laura Fairlie.
The Moonstone is the story of Rachel Verinder, a young woman who inherits a precious gem (aka the Moonstone) from her uncle. The uncle is estranged from the family b/c he stole the diamond after the Siege of Seringapatam when he was a soldier in the British East Empire company. On the night following Rachel's 18th birthday, the Moonstone is stolen from her rooms).
So if you love a good detective novel - these books basically inspired the genre!
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Another Pride Month Book Review!
Transcendent: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
Edited by K.M. Szpara
As literature about exploring and pushing the edges of human experience, it’s not surprising that science fiction and fantasy have always featured characters who are beyond the binary of cis men and cis women. From L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz, who spent her childhood as a boy; to Virginia Woolf’s titular Orlando, who begins life as a man and wakes up one day as a woman; to the gender-cycling Gethenians of Ursula LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.
Following in this long legacy, Transcendent is the first in a yearly series of anthologies featuring trans themes and characters.
Many of the stories are poetic and experimental, requiring a slower reading to fully absorb the atmosphere. Often a reader must simply plunge headlong into a tale, trusting that they’ll figure it out as they go, or maybe understand it better on a second reading after the piece has had a chance to sit for a while in their head. The effectiveness of this experimental storytelling method can be very subjective, and while didn’t always work for me, other readers will find more meaning in these esoteric stories.
Other stories, like Bonne Jo Stufflebeam’s Everything Beneath You, have the feel of mythology, as if they were modern translations of tales illustrated on sunbaked clay wall frescos, or in delicate inks across unfolding silk scrolls.
There are, of course, stories that fit into our more conventional notions of science fiction and fantasy. E.Catherine Tobler’s Splitskin is magical historical fiction featuring nonbinary Native characters during the American Gold Rush era. Molly Tanzer’s The Thing on the Cheerleading Squad is a modern take on Lovecraft’s gender-swapping pulp tale The Thing on the Doorstep. Margarita Tenser’s Chosen is a riff on one of the most popular fantasy tropes- you can probably guess which one. Where Monsters Dance, by A. Merc Rustad has veins of metaphor-heavy fantasy films like Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story.
The Need for Overwhelming Sensation by Bogi Takács is a particularly interesting story about a starship literally powered by the magic generated through the pain and pleasure of a loving BDSM relationship.
As with any anthology, some stories did not entirely work for me. Holly Heisey’s Contents of Care Package Sent to Etsath-tachri, Formerly Ryan Andrew Curran, for example, is a short piece about a human who transitions into an alien. For me this plot hews a little too close to the “when I was a kid I identified as a velociraptor” rhetoric that transphobes use to try to delegitimize trans identities. But perhaps that’s part of the point of the story?
Transcendent is an important milestone in more direct representation of trans folks in speculative fiction. You can get a copy of this and the other books in the series from Lethe Press.
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✨The Aesthete & the Diabolical ✨
Print Exploring the precarious balance of Art & the psyche of the creators, consumers & identity.
Within this piece is a love letter/nod to Anne Rice ✨The Vampire Lestat, Molly Tanner✨ Creatures of Will & Temper - the sapphic retelling of Oscar Wilde’s ✨The Picture of Dorian Grey (3rd picture)
#art crossover#my art#poc artist#Anne rice#oscar wilde#Molly tanzer#the picture of Dorian grey#the vampire lestat#creatures of will & temper#aesthete#art literature#artists on tumblr#expressionism painting#nemesis series#fine artist#fine art#expressionism#the descent
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My Name is Shingo Vol. 1 is an interesting concept that doesn't quite work... yet
My Name is Shingo Vol. 1 is an interesting concept that doesn't quite work... yet #comics #comicbooks #manga
When an industrial robot named Monroe begins to work at his father’s factory, Satoru is fascinated. As he and his friend Marin spend more time with Monroe, they start to suspect there’s much more to the machine than anyone else realizes. But neither children nor adults are prepared for Monroe’s violent awakening into consciousness.
Story: Kazuo UmezzArt: Kazuo UmezzTranslator: Joceelyne…
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Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy will be published on September 10 via Abrams Books. It's written by Desirina Boskovich and features a foreword by Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation).
The 288-page book provides an illustrated overview of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy. It contains over 150 photos, original illustrations, and artwork reproductions.
It also contains essays by Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Lev Grossman, Paul Tremblay, Grady Hendrix, Darran Anderson, Mark Oshiro, K.M. Szpara, Molly Tanzer, John Chu, Ekaterina Sedia, and more, as well as interviews with John Shirley, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Karen Joy Fowler, and Hugh Howey.
Lost Transmissions is available for pre-order in hardcover ($29.99) and e-book ($23.32) on Amazon. Read the synopsis below.
Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from those imaginative genres, as well as little-known information about well-known properties.
Divided into sections on Film & TV, Literature, Art, Music, Fashion, Architecture, and Pop Culture, the book examines Jules Verne’s lost novel; AfroFuturism and Space Disco; E.T.’s scary beginnings; William Gibson’s never-filmed Aliens sequel; Weezer’s never-made space opera; and the 8,000-page metaphysical diary of Philip K. Dick.
Featuring more than 150 photos, this insightful volume will become the bible of science fiction and fantasy’s most interesting and least-known chapters.
#jeff vandermeer#paul tremblay#charlie jane anders#science fiction#fantasy#desirina boskovich#annalee newitz#mark oshiro#book#gift#john shirley#grady hendrix#molly tanzer#thomas olde heuvelt#karen joy fowler#hugh howey#abrams books#lost transmissions
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8/22 Book Deals
Hey guys, back with more book deals! Pretty good selection again so be sure to have a look if you’re in need of a new book (or just want one). :) I hope you’re all having a wonderful week!
Find past book deals here–many of which are still on sale!
Today’s Deals:
Sabriel by Garth Nix - https://amzn.to/2HmeDu9
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff - https://amzn.to/3263vJV
These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch - https://amzn.to/2ZdakfF
Lake Silence by Anne Bishop - https://amzn.to/2ZfuYH6
Written in Red by Anne Bishop - https://amzn.to/31Vfg5v
Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz - https://amzn.to/31TvTi6
The Reluctant Midwife by Patricia Harman - https://amzn.to/2ZlVzlQ
A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice by William E. Glassley - https://amzn.to/33Rwnas
Creatures of Will and Temper (The Diabolist’s Library) by Molly Tanzer - https://amzn.to/2KPxdg4
The People's Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas and Jeffrey Ford - https://amzn.to/2HiHKyc
Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network by Jonathan D. Moreno - https://amzn.to/2L0ejC7
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#bookdeals#booksale#sabriel#garth nix#jay kristoff#godsgrave#sara raasch#anne bishop#patricia harman#molly tanzer
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