John Crowley, Author . Subterranean $20 (63p) ISBN 978-1-59606-198-9
Crowley (Little, Big
) constructs a disappointingly simplistic narrative in this weak novelette. Science fiction author Meg and stay-at-home dad John have a handicapped daughter, Lily, who cavorts on her crutches in a few charming episodes. When a...
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John Crowley. Saga, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-481495-59-2
This unusual narrative from Crowley (Totalitopia) ostensibly consists primarily of the recollections of a long-lived crow who’s capable of communicating with humans, one of whom named him Dar Oakley. Crowley cleverly grounds the book with a prologue
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John Crowley, Author . Small Beer $24 (341p) ISBN 978-1-931520-22-5
Crowley's eloquent and captivating conclusion to his Ægypt tetralogy finds scholar Pierce Moffet still searching for the mythical Ægypt, an alternate reality of magic and marvels that have been encoded in our own world's myths,...
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John Crowley, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-10004-4
Combining brilliant storytelling with mind-catching philosophical musings, Crowley's (Little, Big) latest novel pushes fantasy fiction toward its most thrilling, intelligent heights. Set in a time and place that are both invented and naggingly...
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John Crowley, Author Harper Perennial $14.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-380-73106-0
Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction gathers 15 shorter works by one of America's most original writers of the fantastic, John Crowley (Little, Big). Included is a novella, ""An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings,"" hitherto available only...
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John Crowley, Author Spectra Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05194-0
Reengaging the motifs of alternate lives, worlds and world-views that pulsed through his remarkable Little, Big, Crowley's new novel shapes itself around unorthodox historian Pierce Moffett, who seeks to explain the secret histories of the world,...
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John Crowley, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-553-09642-2
With this impressive if flawed sequel to the magisterial AEgypt (1987), Crowley offers another taste of his deeply intellectual brand of contemporary fantasy. As a boy, historian and writer Pierce Moffett developed a fascination with the occult,...
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John Crowley, Author . Morrow $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-380-97862-5
Writer's writer Crowley, who has been working for years on a series that weaves fantasy elements into larger, more naturalistic plots (Love and Sleep; Aegypt; Daemonomania), here abandons the otherworldly for a novel that builds realistically...
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John Crowley, Author . Morrow $25.95 (465p) ISBN 978-0-06-055658-7
On a stormy night at Lord Byron's Swiss villa, Mary Shelley challenged her host, her husband and herself to write a ghost story. Mary's, of course, became Frankenstein
. Byron supposedly soon gave up his—but, Crowley asks, what if he...
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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John Crowley. Small Beer, $25 (328p) ISBN 978-1-61873-163-0
A compassionate, ruminative eye frames the sepia-tinted worlds of the fifth collection from erudite fantasist Crowley (Ka). The stories are drawn from the last 20 years of Crowley’s long career and span the breadth of speculative and literary short...
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John Crowley. Subterranean, $40 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59606-946-6
Crowley, best known for his fantasy fiction (Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr), shows his colors as an insightful critic in this collection of 39 essays and book reviews. Grouped into three loosely organized sections, the selections range over a...
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John Crowley. Tor, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-81752-5
Crowley (the Aegypt tetralogy) triumphs with this beautiful, subtle fantasy, set in a 17th-century Ireland subject to both the desires of Queen Elizabeth and a host of magical forces. Crowley introduces his protagonist, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone,
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