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F&SF reviewer Charles de Lint received the novel favorably, describing it as "a fine, thoroughly engaging story about real people in an extraordinary situation." [3]Kirkus Reviews called the book a "[s]inewy shoot-'em-up, with pikes and muzzle-loaders squared off against modern automatics and 20th-century tactics: a rollicking, good-natured, fact-based flight of fancy that should appeal to ...
Upon receiving the 2023 NBCC Award for Fiction, the NBCC committee declared that: “ I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home is a heartbreaking and hilarious ghost story about a man who considers what it means to be human in a world infected by, as Moore puts it, ‘voluntary insanity.’
the hallucinatory aspects of the book owe more to Borges, or perhaps Les Gommes, Alain Robbe-Grillet's subversion of the policier. Most impressively, Miéville’s underlying point, that all city-dwellers collude in ignoring real aspects of the cities in which they live – the homeless, political structures, the commercial world or the stuff ...
Domnica Radulescu Portrait. Domnica Rădulescu is a Romanian-born American writer of novels, [1] plays and books of literary criticism. She is the author of three novels: Train to Trieste (Knopf, 2008), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld, 2010) [2] and Country of Red Azaleas (Twelve, Hachette Group, 2016).
The book begins by briefly introducing the reader to Phillips in 1989, before quickly travelling back to her childhood in 1940s Brooklyn. [10] It then covers her early life and first successes in the film industry: she and Michael earned $100,000 from their debut feature, Steelyard Blues, moved to Malibu, California, and had a daughter, Kate. [9]
[2] Book Report magazine said that it was "an exciting story of self-discovery and survival." [3] Between 1993 and 1998, over three million copies of the novel were sold. [4] During this timeframe, Tomorrow, When the War Began was translated into five languages, and was rated as the "4th best loved book" in an Australian survey. [4]
Home was named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2008" by The New York Times, [4] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by The Washington Post, [5] one of the Los Angeles Times' "Favorite Books 2008", [6] one of the "Best Books of 2008" by San Francisco Chronicle, [7] as well as one of The New Yorker book critic James Wood's ten favorite books of 2008 ...
City is a 1952 science fiction fix-up novel by American writer Clifford D. Simak.The original version consists of eight linked short stories, all originally published in Astounding Science Fiction under the editorship of John W. Campbell between 1944 and 1951, along with brief "notes" on each of the stories.