The Book Depository At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson
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Description: At the Mouth of the River of Bees : Paperback : Small Beer Press : 9781931520805 : 1931520801 : 11 Oct 2012 : A break out first collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction. The Book Depository At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781931520805
MPN: 1931520801
GTIN: 9781931520805
Author: Kronos
Rating: 5
Review: Kij Johnson's amazing stories in her first collection range across time and space with fluent ease. Her imagination is vast and boundless and she'll carry you wherever her mind travels to and settles -- Heian Japan, the far future, smalltown USA; nothing is impossible for her. No one has punctured the membranes holding different worlds separate -- in space, time, genre, imagination, or in any other taxonomical category of apartness you can think of -- with such intoxicating results. Her vision of the interfaces between animals and humans, and their occasional dissolution, is alone worth the price of admission. The stories are all uniquely affecting too: I defy you not to tear up after you finish the title-story. Seek out this book, it'll enlarge your soul.
Author: Perceptive Reader
Rating: 3
Review: This book is truly a mixed bag. It stuns, disorients, angers, disappoints, rewards and bores. Often one is compelled to think, has the author taken the readers for granted? How else can one interpret such trash being poured into our throat? Next story makes one almost cry with delight and wonder, sensuality and pathos, violence and beauty. My favourites were~ 1. 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss; 2. The Bitey Cat; 3. Dia Chjerman's Tale; 4. Schrodinger's Cathouse; 5. Wolf Trapping; 6. Spar. And then I must mention "The Man Who Bridged the Mist". In my humble opinion, this work alone makes the entire book worthy to be read, remembered, and re-read. It's so good that one is forced to delete the impact of other so-called stories which the author had burdened us with, in the name of experimentation etc. Your call.
