Book #28 of 50: Setting Suns by Elizabeth DonaldThis collection of horror and SF short stories opens with a bang: "Sisyphus" is a time travel story that manages to be horrifying and brilliantly clever at the same time. It delivers a Twilight-Zone style punch that grabs the reader immediately, and it's a nice lead-in to the claustrophobia of "Deep Breathing" and the suburban creepiness of "Silent" and "Jesus Loves Me".
Elizabeth Donald delivers very strong characters and realistic situations, and plays to a wide range of fears from the moment-by-moment terror of a campus sniper attack to the global apocalypse of the stories from her alien-invasion series, "Sanctuary".
There are three Sanctuary stories here. "Our Turn" is a twist on Shirley Jackson's classic "The Lottery" involving a rather nasty arrangement that one village has made with the alien conquerors. "Gauntlet" is basically a running gunbattle and brawl that's good old-fashioned fun to read. My favorite of these, though, was "Memoir", which features a fascinating AI character and the opening moments of the alien attack on Earth.
Donald writes some great fight scenes, whether it's the deadly urban fighting in "Gauntlet" or the fight against the schoolyard bully in "Symphony of the Woods", the action scenes are crisp, visceral, and vividly described.
As a whole, this is a nice collection that showcases the range of the author's talent, and delivers a good variety of scares and thrills while it gets the reader thinking, and in some cases worrying a bit.
Setting Suns was Book #28 in my goal of reading 50 books in 2009.
Joy
My friend "Taku" and I did a mini comic for an anthology. "Cookie-Napping".
Do you remember?
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What have you been up to?
We just finished revising our website (www.dandelionstudios.com) and will have a bunch of new comics coming out in the next year or so.
Great hearing from you!
-Rick & Gynn
I...also noticed that...you changed Winde's name to Linde. I was a little upset about that...and disappointed. Sorry to complain. I wonder if you still have the original copies...?
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The name change was unintentional. I think it came about because we misread the name. Apologies about that.
The ordering was the result of a similar problem with us not taking sufficient notes when we collected the pages.
I'm pretty sure we still have your original copies. Just need to locate them. I'll try to find them in the next day or two and let you know.
-Rick
I would love to arrange something, if you'd be willing to send those to me. (If, of course, you DO find them.)
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Just mentioning it - you can also get a good count of who's reading, who likes it, and all that (;
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