Caitlín R. Kiernan
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(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
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The Yellow Book 21 kappaletta
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
False/Starts II 14 kappaletta
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 kappaletta
The Aubergine Alphabet (A Fourth Primer) 13 kappaletta
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 kappaletta
Refugees 8 kappaletta
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 7 kappaletta
The Chartreuse Alphabet (A Fifth Primer) 6 kappaletta
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 6 kappaletta
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 kappaletta
False Starts 5 kappaletta
Sanderlings 5 kappaletta
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 kappaletta
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 kappaletta
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 kappaletta
The Melusine (1898) [Short story] 3 kappaletta
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 kappaletta
As Red As Red 3 kappaletta
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 kappaletta
Persephone 3 kappaletta
The Belated Burial 3 kappaletta
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 kappaletta
Tidal Forces 3 kappaletta
On the Road to Jefferson 3 kappaletta
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 kappaletta
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 kappaletta
La Peau Verte 3 kappaletta
Riding the White Bull {short story} 3 kappaletta
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 kappaletta
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 kappaletta
Study for "Estate" 2 kappaletta
Bast: Eternity Game 2 kappaletta
Onion 2 kappaletta
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 kappaletta
Escape Artist 2 kappaletta
The Bone's Prayer 2 kappaletta
The Pearl Diver 2 kappaletta
Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea [short fiction] 2 kappaletta
A Redress For Andromeda 2 kappaletta
Galápagos 2 kappaletta
Ode To Katan Amano 2 kappaletta
The Maltese Unicorn 2 kappaletta
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 kappaletta
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 kappaletta
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 kappaletta
Masques and Hedgehogs (The Dreaming #45) 2 kappaletta
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 kappaletta
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection 2 kappaletta
Giants in the Earth 2 kappaletta
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 kappaletta
The Drowned Geologist 2 kappaletta
Alabaster Volume 2: Grimmer Tales 1 kappale
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 kappale
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 kappale
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 kappale
False Starts 1 kappale
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 kappale
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 kappale
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 kappale
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 kappale
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 kappale
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 kappale
The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean 1 kappale
The King of Birds 1 kappale
Sirenia digest 1 kappale
On The Reef 1 kappale
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 kappale
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 kappale
Scary Monsters (The Dreaming #48) 1 kappale
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 kappale
Two Worlds and in Between [story] 1 kappale
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 kappale
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 kappale
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 kappale
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) 1 kappale
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 kappale
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 kappale
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 kappale
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 kappale
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 kappale
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings 1 kappale
Random Thoughts Before A Fatal Crash 1 kappale
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 kappale
So Runs the World Away 1 kappale
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 kappale
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 kappale
Standing Water 1 kappale
Alabaster [short story] 1 kappale
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) 1 kappale
In The Water Works 1 kappale
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 kappale
Pony 1 kappale
Bainbridge 1 kappale
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 19, No. 2 [208], May 2023. A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizzareness 1 kappale
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 kappale
Estate 1 kappale
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 kappale
Bela's Plot 1 kappale
Houses Under the Sea [short story] 1 kappale
Associated Works
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Jälkisanat, eräät painokset — 598 kappaletta
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Avustaja — 430 kappaletta
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Avustaja — 266 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 138 kappaletta
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 54 kappaletta
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Avustaja — 44 kappaletta
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Avustaja — 34 kappaletta
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Muut nimet
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Syntymäaika
- 1964-05-26
- Sukupuoli
- genderfluid
- Kansalaisuus
- Ireland (birth)
USA - Maa (karttaa varten)
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Dublin, Ireland
- Asuinpaikat
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Koulutus
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Ammatit
- paleontologist
writer - Agentti
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Erotteluhuomautus
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Weird Tradition (syyskuu 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan , The Weird Tradition (toukokuu 2021)
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I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
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