[books 2011] Millennium
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inulro60. Millennium, edited by Douglas E Winter
This is what the editor calls an "anthology novel" - ten short stories, one set in each decade of the 20th century, being in some way related to death & destruction.
I picked it up in a charity shop because it's got contributions from Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and Poppy Z Brite. Those three stories (the Poppy Z Brite one is co-written with someone called Christa Faust) are by far the best in the collection. Especially the PZB one, "Triads" - for the 19330s she didn't choose any of the obvious subjects, but the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, which I thought was cool.
Unfortunately, the rest of the stories range from OK to downright unreadable (Whitley Strieber - the only other name on the cover I'd heard of).
It's going straight back to the charity shop it came from.
This is what the editor calls an "anthology novel" - ten short stories, one set in each decade of the 20th century, being in some way related to death & destruction.
I picked it up in a charity shop because it's got contributions from Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and Poppy Z Brite. Those three stories (the Poppy Z Brite one is co-written with someone called Christa Faust) are by far the best in the collection. Especially the PZB one, "Triads" - for the 19330s she didn't choose any of the obvious subjects, but the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, which I thought was cool.
Unfortunately, the rest of the stories range from OK to downright unreadable (Whitley Strieber - the only other name on the cover I'd heard of).
It's going straight back to the charity shop it came from.
