June 21, 2004

Bargains at Night Shade Books

Posted by Henry

Night Shade Books, one of the best small press publishers around, is running a special offer until midnight tomorrow - order three or more of their books, and you’ll get a discount of 50%. I’d especially recommend M. John Harrison’s extraordinary novel, The Course of the Heart, and his short story collection, Things that Never Happen, which I’ve blogged about previously; NSB has also done very nice reprints of Dunsany’s Jorkens stories.

Posted on June 21, 2004 10:26 PM UTC
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So I’m 40 pages (today) into Vladimir Tasic’s book on.. well these here ellipses, right here this one… and this one…, and I’ve got “Things That Never Happen” on the bookshelf, half read; the parts unread surely eclipse that imbibed so far, admittedly. And the reading of the Tasic is prompted by a Notices of the American Mathematical Society book review of DFW’s E&M by Michael Harris (RbMH). Which I only blogwhore about because RbMH reminded me about how I so much hated reading, minutely, IJ; yet it (IJ) learned me essential things I’d really rather not share, and all from the structure of that fucking text. Well of course that and a trip down the North Bass Trail in early June with a (i did not realize this beforehand) al anone AAA hard core reformed types, who like to killed me.

Point is, I can’t see any worth at all in any of these obscure Sci Fi authors, they all suck, and steal fudgcicles. DFW, though, steals your mind.

Posted by Russell L. Carter · June 22, 2004 05:40 AM

It seems Things That Never Happen is not available for ordering. And it sounds so promising too.

Posted by Numan · June 22, 2004 01:59 PM

It must have sold out in the last 24 hours - they still had copies of the paperback yesterday. I imagine they’ll be reprinting it sometime soon - I think it’s been one of their bigger sellers. There’s a UK edition coming out soon as well.

Posted by Henry · June 22, 2004 02:41 PM
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