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Books: Book Club
BOOK CLUB
WITH ADAM & SAM MORRIS
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ILLUMINATIONS by Alan Moore
Alan Moore might be the most important and most influential comic writer in the history of comics. That's just an opinion, but we're willing to die on that hill. Illuminations is a collection of short stories that Alan has been writing over the past forty years. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that - a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
LIBERATION DAY by George Saunders
The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose - wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
UZUMAKI by Junji Ito
This one’s been around since 1998, but Sam finally got around to reading it. It’s symbolic and weird, and all about spirals slowly infecting a small seaside Japanese town. Body horror abounds, and a series of seemingly unconnected body horror concepts slowly form into a single spiraling mythos as the town itself is, also, slowly forming into a spiral. Even more horrifying than the terrible things happening to the people are the people themselves, who begin to take the absurd as ordinary. Incredibly influential, you can see Uzumaki in a lot of weird fiction today.
THE COWARD by Stephen Aryan
Years ago, Kell Kressia was part of a band of warriors who went to kill the Ice Lich and save the world, but Kell came back alone. With the Lich defeated, his icy grip on the world loosened and it was as safe as Kell’s secret (the coward killed the Ice Lich by accident). That is, until a new evil moves into the Ice Lich’s castle and the world is in peril once again. That’s a lot of summary, but the book is a fresh play on a lot of fantasy tropes and is frankly a delight.
