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2010 Reading #93: The Ant King and Other Stories
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Full disclosure: Ben is a friend. As it turns out, nearly all of this collection was a re-read for me, but reading a collection is a different experience. (And hell, I could probably read "The Orange" every day without it ever getting old.) For instance, I never noticed how many of Ben's stories had an undercurrent of yearning for a closer relationship with a god/parent. There's "The Orange" of course, but also "The Valley of Giants," "Start the Clock" (in which it's most noticeable for its omission/denial), "Embracing-the-New" and "The House Beyond Your Sky." Also, I tend to think of Ben as coming more from the "ideas" end of genre fiction, and yet his love of pulp/adventure elements comes through more clearly in bulk--the epic fantasy of "A Siege of Cranes," the vampire story of "The Book of Jashar," and the baroque air-pirates-meet-Sabatini giddiness of "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum." The point is, you should read this.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz.
92. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith.
93. The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Full disclosure: Ben is a friend. As it turns out, nearly all of this collection was a re-read for me, but reading a collection is a different experience. (And hell, I could probably read "The Orange" every day without it ever getting old.) For instance, I never noticed how many of Ben's stories had an undercurrent of yearning for a closer relationship with a god/parent. There's "The Orange" of course, but also "The Valley of Giants," "Start the Clock" (in which it's most noticeable for its omission/denial), "Embracing-the-New" and "The House Beyond Your Sky." Also, I tend to think of Ben as coming more from the "ideas" end of genre fiction, and yet his love of pulp/adventure elements comes through more clearly in bulk--the epic fantasy of "A Siege of Cranes," the vampire story of "The Book of Jashar," and the baroque air-pirates-meet-Sabatini giddiness of "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' by Benjamin Rosenbaum." The point is, you should read this.