Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand
Jan. 13th, 2004 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeregenestI just finished reading Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand, published by PS Publishing. I got Tyler from Pandemonium Books to do an order from PS Publishing (PS Publishing being British) and I'm glad I did (plus its a publisher he should be carrying!). Elizabeth Hand is one of those novelists I really like, I put her in that camp of weird history fantasy with Crowley and Powers and Blaylock, the stuff that I can really dig my teeth into. The fact she uses Maine so effectively (especially in her short stories) is just an added benefit in my book.
Bibliomancy is a collection of 4 novellas. My favorite was 'Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol' which involved half-remembered early televison and the redemption of the human soul. It made me cry. I also liked 'The Least Trumps', with its well realized pseudo-literary history and its changing history.
The other two short stories 'Cleopatra Brimstone' and 'Pavane for a Prince of the Air' round out the collection and make the book well worth the bother of getting it. I'm not sure I could have justified the expense if I hadn't just sold off a big bunch of my gaming collection for store credit. But then its hard for me to justify any expense for books these days. Thank goodness for the library.
Bibliomancy is a collection of 4 novellas. My favorite was 'Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol' which involved half-remembered early televison and the redemption of the human soul. It made me cry. I also liked 'The Least Trumps', with its well realized pseudo-literary history and its changing history.
The other two short stories 'Cleopatra Brimstone' and 'Pavane for a Prince of the Air' round out the collection and make the book well worth the bother of getting it. I'm not sure I could have justified the expense if I hadn't just sold off a big bunch of my gaming collection for store credit. But then its hard for me to justify any expense for books these days. Thank goodness for the library.
