The Narrator
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00XM0WUVM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 514 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Avant Army-Horror. A man named Low is the narrator, and also The Narrator, of The Narrator. But it isn't quite that kind of twisty turny ho-ho I've got you now dumb reader! sort of book. Just as The Traitor was about the rise of the state, The Narrator is about how the state exists via ideo-linguistic concent. Narrators in Cisco's imaginary Europe--there's a da Vinci in this setting at least, along with magic and spirits--tell the stories the . What they want is a good story and characters Zachary Q: Who do you consider master world-builders, and what did you learn from them?Michael Moorcock: "I hardly know what this means. I used to draw a rough map if the story was a 'journey' adventure and made up the rest as needed for the story. My worlds are always inner (unconscious) worlds made manifest. I just learned to tap and shape that unconscious. I've never really understood 'world building' and it seems to derive from . Superb Prose Low Loom Column, formerly a student of the College of Narrators, stands gazing out over the city of Tref with the bitter memory of a bungled student exemption from the military conflicting with the draft ticket that lies in his pocket. There is no hope for him beyond fleeing home, back to the mountains, but even that is stripped from him. He is trapped, forced to fight a war he wants no part of, taking his place as the batta
He lives and teaches in New York City. Forthcoming works include a story in The Master in the Cafe Morphine: A Tribute to Mikhail Bulgakov ("The Cadaver Is You"), an appearance in The Weird, an omnibus edition of published work from Centipede Press, and a new novel, The Wretch of the Sun, from Ex Occidente Press. His columns and the occasional review can be found at TheModernWord. His novel, The Traitor, is published by Prime (2007). Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (eds. Wosslynne"), Black Wings ("Violence, Child of Trust"), Lovecraft Unbound ("Machines of Concrete Light and Dark), Cinnabar's Gnosis: A Tribute to Gustav Meyrink ("Modern Cities Exist Only to be Destroyed"), and Last Drink Bird Head anthologies. In 2009-2010, his sto
Forrest Aguirre). Forthcoming works include a story in The Master in the Cafe Morphine: A Tribute to Mikhail Bulgakov ("The Cadaver Is You"), an appearance in The Weird, an omnibus edition of published work from Centipede Press, and a new novel, The Wretch of the Sun, from Ex Occidente Press. Michael Cisco is the author of The Divinity Student (Buzzcity Press; International Horror Writers Guild Award for best first novel of 1999), T
Destined to be a classic.” —JEFF VANDERMEER, author of the Southern Reach trilogy“The Narrator is not a subversive fantasy novel. “Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today, and The Narrator is Cisco at his startling best.” —CHINA MIEVILLE, author of Perdido Street Station“An extraordinary story of war and the supernatural that combines the creepiness of Alien with the clear-eyed gaze of Full Metal Jacket. It eliminates all other fantasy novels and starts the genre anew. Like The Other Side