.mau. ha recensito The Ramshead Algorithm di KJ Kabza
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5 stelle
[Note: I got the book via the Early Reviewers program of LibraryThing]
The short stories in this book are quite strange. I am not sure where to put them: it's a mix between sci-fi and fantasy with a good part of horror, at least in the first stories. I found some of them a bit disturbing, but this is a problem of mine; the prose is quite good and Kabza is really able to set up the atmospheres, even if sometimes the endings are disappointing. Among the stories, I liked The Ramshead Algorithm, the setting of Heaventide and the space travel of We Don’t Talk About Death: all of these stories have something non standard. The last story, You Can Take It With You, is a novelette; its end is a bit too quick, which is unfortunate since the idea and the plot in the first 80 …
[Note: I got the book via the Early Reviewers program of LibraryThing]
The short stories in this book are quite strange. I am not sure where to put them: it's a mix between sci-fi and fantasy with a good part of horror, at least in the first stories. I found some of them a bit disturbing, but this is a problem of mine; the prose is quite good and Kabza is really able to set up the atmospheres, even if sometimes the endings are disappointing. Among the stories, I liked The Ramshead Algorithm, the setting of Heaventide and the space travel of We Don’t Talk About Death: all of these stories have something non standard. The last story, You Can Take It With You, is a novelette; its end is a bit too quick, which is unfortunate since the idea and the plot in the first 80 pages or so were really good. Overall, a very good book.
Keep in mind that for people like me for whom English is not the mother tongue, the language Kabza uses is sometimes difficult: it could took me some pages before I grasped the meaning of a key word.