The Essential Ellison

Re-reading Rebel Without A Crew.

Just finished Servant of the Shard by R A Salvatore this morning. I thought it was a really good book until the epilogue, at which point i decided it was a FUCKING AWESOME book.

the revelation in the last paragraph is a "Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's Father" revelation if you have read the 13-14 preceding books. Incredible, one of my new favorites.

'hell house'

Bad Moon Rising
 

Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry...excellent book

Piecemeal June by Jordan Krall. Funny, sick. Early Clive Barker meets Elmore Leonard.

Abarat by Clive Barker
 

I've been a fan of CB's work ever since reading Weaveworld (which is still one of my all-time favs).

I know this book was meant for a younger audience but I'm finding it very entertaining. the concept for this set of novels has a lot of scope and the characters and events are believable and original (in a dark fantasy/horror setting).

I'll update when I finished reading it, but at this point I would highly recommend it.

If you haven't read CB before I'd suggest starting with Weaveworld or Imagica, both are fantastic!

My only wish is that CB would once again write books based in the UK instead of pampering to his USA fans (he may live there now but it doesn't mean all his work has to be set there does it?)

I'm also reading a great book called 'Nothing in this book is true, but it's exactly how things are.' which is mind a blowing account of humankind's origins and what is really happening around us now. Well worth reading if you like aliens, dimensional travel and conspiracy theories about secret governments :-)

The Screenwriter's Workbook by: Syd Field.

the outsiders

About to start Salem's Lot.