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Loading... Quicksilver & Shadow (original 2005; edition 2005)by Charles De Lint
Work InformationQuicksilver & Shadow: Collected Early Stories, Vol. 2: Contemporary, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction Stories by Charles de Lint (2005)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A lot of the stories in this collection are not de Lint's strongest (as he readily admits in the introduction), but it was still a good read. Having read the first collection of de Lint's early short stories I can definitely see his evolution and improvement as a writer, as we get a handful more of his published stories (Borderlands mostly, which are always a charm) but it's still very clear that he hasn't quite found his voice yet. I skipped over most of the science fiction stories at the end (not because they were weak, but because sic-fi isn't really my jam), but many of the urban fantasy and "real" world-based stories were starting to sound like the Charles de Lint that I know and love. There's one final volume of the early short sotries that I have yet to read, and I'm quite looking forward to seeing the final bridge between the developing and more mature author. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Quicksilver & Shadow is the second volume (of a projected three) of Charles de Lint's Collected Early Stories. At nearly 150,000 words it's even larger than volume one, A Handful of Coppers, and includes the very obscure 20,000 word novella, "Berlin," and its over 30,000 word counterpart "Death Leaves an Echo." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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