The weekend

[jonathanstrahan]

It was a weird weekend, tiring, disjointed and kind of unsatisfactory. I read some stories that left me completely puzzled and unsure whether I knew a good story or not, and a couple very good ones. I started Al Reynolds' Pushing Ice, but set it aside when I realised that I just wasn't ready for it. Instead, Tim emailed me The Strange Adventures of

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Re: I passed through via a reference on Deborah B's blog.

[jonathanstrahan]

Hi Deborah - I post pretty much daily, just not to LiveJournal. There's a LiveJournal syndication thingie for Coode Street, and I have a blog at www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/. Hope you stumble across it.

Mister B. Gone

[anonymous]

At last, multi-talented superstar Clive Barker returns to adult literature, and he comes bearing a subversive discovery: the only edition of a demonic “autobiography” copied secretly in the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg in 1438 and then suppressed for centuries. Until now. MISTER B. GONE (HarperCollins Publishers On Sale: October 30, 2007 $24.95 Hardcover), a mind-blowing “confessional” unearthed by the reigning master of dark fantasy, rekindles the age-old battle between good and evil just in time for Halloween. And the reverberations as this gruesome document is finally unleashed could be catastrophic. Meet Jakabok Botch, an avowed enemy of mankind and the most diabolical narrator ever to take center stage. Needling his audience to “burn this book” repeatedly and claiming to be imprisoned by the unfolding pages, this malevolent force plays mind games with his readers as he recounts his story of damnation. The deformed, unwanted and frequently brutalized son of demon parents, he escapes the Ninth Circle of the World Below while

Lend Clive Barker your support...

[anonymous]

Click on the link to lend Clive support...

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