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 Continued... Carroll, Jonathan. White Apples. (Tor, 2003) Carroll criss-crosses the borders between mainstream, mystery, and dark fantasy fiction in this story about man returned from death, using this premise to reflect on the nature of death, life, the universe, and everything ... all the while telling a cracking good tale. (Terri Windling) Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. (Viking, 1986) A Cockney trapeze artiste has wings, or maybe it's all a fraud. A rather staid young journalist sets out to debunk her, and stays to love her. A picaresque historical-comical-fantastical-romantic circus novel that spans two continents and has a train wreck in it, not to mention white tigers. (Delia Sherman) Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. (Random House, 2000) Two Jewish immigrant teenage boys in 1930's Brooklyn create a series of successful superhero comix. Chabon dug deep into the actual stories and experiences of the generation of guys who created "Superman" et al — the book addresses why people write comics, gives you an almost edible image of the energy of New York in the 30's, includes a "queer" subplot . . . Josef Kavalier, the artist of the team, studied Houdini-like escapes in Prague, and gets out a step ahead of the Nazis in a box that also contains the Golem . . . what's not to like? (Ellen Kushner) Chandra, Vikram. Red Earth and Pouring Rain. (Back Bay Books, 1997) From Publishers Weekly: "Setting 18th and 19th Mogul India against the highways of contemporary America and fusing Indian myth, Hindu gods, magic and mundane reality, this intricate first novel is a magnificent epic that welds the exfoliating storytelling style of A Thousand and One Nights to modernist fictional technique." Need we say more? (Terri Windling) Chapman, Stepan.The Troika. (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1997, trade paperback) This mosaic novel in which an old Mexican woman, a talking brontosaurus, and an intelligent jeep are traveling across an endless desert above which shine three suns is a masterpiece of interstitial storytelling. (JeffVandermeer) Crowley, John. The Translator. (Morrow, 2002) Set on an American campus in the early 1960s, this gorgeous Interstitial novel about love, language, and American/Soviet history can be read as a mainstream "literary" novel, an historical novel, a Cold War thriller, a romance, and/or as contemporary fantasy. (Terri Windling) Day, Marele.The Lambs of God. (Penguin USA, 1999) This quirky, captivating novel about nuns gone feral, real estate speculators, and selchie legends on an isolated island off the coast of Australia is a book that defies categorization. (Terri Windling) de Lint, Charles. Someplace to Be Flying. (St. Martins, 1999) De Lint weaves Native and European creation myths, trickster tales and other folklore into a contemporary story set in the fictional city Newford, a place where Coyote walks and Raven broods and Crow Girls flit through the trees. (Terri Windling) Erdrich, Louise. The Antelope Wife. (Harper, 1998) Erdrich's extraordinary novel blends contemporary realist fiction with historical fiction, fantasy, myth, and magical realism to explore the power of love and of history, in Native American families and communities past and present.(Terri Windling) |
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