What are you all currently reading ❓❓ I am reading Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney that has just been released.
Name of Book: Talosite
Author: Rebecca Campbell
Publisher: Undertow
Publication Date: 4 Oct 2022
No. of Pages: 103
Format: Edelweiss DRC
It's 1916, during the First World War, in an alternate world where resurrection is possible. Anne Markham, the daughter of a celebrated neurologist, is reusing the bodies of the dead, combining them into new forms and sending them back into combat, building creatures so complex, and so enormous, that they can encompass all of the fallen.
It's not life as you or I live it. It's not pain or thought as we know it. It's a different order of existence, and what arises is no longer man. They're all dead, but dead doesn't always mean what it used to. All flesh has an afterlife. And from that perspective, are we not angels, ushering them from one form to the next?
He was made of copper wire and electrical sparks and aethereal fluid and hyphae ... emerging in the mist of dawn.
Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. Her work hasappeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volumes 5 & 6, in addition to many contemporary magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for "The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest" and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for "An Important Failure." NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013.
My Opinion
Talosite by Rebecca Campbell takes us into an alternate world of resurrection of the dead. The book gives you a feeling of the "Frankenstein" monster but a bit different from him. The author has done a good job by creating some unique horror creatures. I feel the plot needed more elaborate narrative about the world we are reading about. It seemed like just a small part of a larger universe. As a beginner, readers are going to feel lost. The characters need more color to balance the plot, as after a few pages the reader is going to lose interest. I had great expectations from the book and hope to read other books by the author. The book deserves 3 stars.
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