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This is the first Clockwork Phoenix book I have ever laid my hands on or read. Upon opening the book, I realized after a few short stories, it wasn't my style. The stories were all over the place, and seemed to come out of nowhere. Some of them were a little far fetched for me to even fathom, while others seemed redundant. I assume that IF I would've understood the stories more, perhaps I would be more into it, but I just couldn't get it. If I had to put it into words, those words would be, "wha...
I received this book through the Goodreads first reads program. It's always difficult to give star reviews to multi-author collections, and I tend to fall back on 3s. Some stories in any collection will be excellent, some will be less so, and the appeal will vary by reader. So I tend to think of 3 stars as the default and fairest rating for collections like this. The stories in this anthology are weird and beautiful. A few I felt went way above my head; I couldn't understand them at all. A few j...
This anthology was a delight to read: weird, wonderful, and genre-bending, and full of tiny moments and thoughts which stray into my mind at the oddest moments. I know I'll come back to these stories again.
FCC note: Backed on Kickstarter
I have a story in this anthology so I feel that it would be weird to write a review of it, so I will not! It is an anthology! I liked some stories and did not care for other stories! That is how anthologies generally work for me! I do enjoy how the stories fit the general aesthetic of "beauty and strangeness." It's an interesting collection of tales.
This is the first of the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies that I've read. I largely enjoyed it, and even the stories I struggled with contained nuggets that I liked. If I had to pick some favorites, off the top of my head the list would include the stories by Barbara Krasnoff, Sunil Patel, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Patrica Russo and Rob Cameron.
Not a review. Includes my story "The Souls of Horses."
Twenty unique or unusual science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror stories from authors of diverse backgrounds. Of the twenty, the following stories shine as the best in the anthology, in this order:1) “The Perfect Happy Family” by Patricia Russo2) “Squeeze” by Rob Cameron3) “Innumerable Glimmering Lights” by Rich Larson4) “The Trinitite Golem” by Sonya Taaffe5) “The Sorcerer of Etah” by Gray RinehartFull review at Tangent Online.
So far only read:-- The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me by Rachael K. Jones - DNFI tried Podcastle's audio version read by Tina Connolly. I decided to quit not too far into it. Opens with: There are things that fly and things that fall. You must remember this distinction, because they are not the same.Devils are flying things that learn to fall. Lovers are falling things that learn to fly. Do not confuse them.I'm sure it's lovely and I do love the author but ... the visual story has breaks l...
This was an amazing anthology, full of really great stories that covered the full spectrum of SFF. There was everything from urban fantasy to raygun gothic to all sorts of little treasures. I loved the variety, and the skill on display was excellent. Several stories left me breathless. Particular favorites are "The Book of May," "The Games We Play" (oh man those last two lines...), "Innumerable Glimmering Lights."
I've read Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 4 previously and loved both of them; those collections delivered on the promise of "tales of beauty and strangeness" and were full of lyrical, haunting stories told in new and interesting ways. This time out, however, I felt like the majority of stories were beautiful but far too esoteric to take any meaning from and I was left scratching my head most of the time (and often this head scratching came at the end of an engrossing story where the ending just didn't
Update: Having finished this book, reviews of individual stories can be found posted in comments (not necessarily in the order in which they occur in the book), so I'd have room to write an overall review here.I backed this anthology on Kickstarter, so I received an advance copy of the ebook. The Clockwork Phoenix series is an interesting one (I've only read one of the previous four volumes), which gathers an eclectic assortment of stories across the SF/fantasy spectrum, according to the idiosyn...
Clockwork Phoenix continues to fulfil its brief of telling 'tales of beauty and strangeness'. Although not every story worked for me, my overall impression is of a glorious mosaic. I'm glad I savoured it slowly over a few months.
I lose track of stories so quickly; my memory is like a sieve; I only remembered a few after a few weeks and had to avail myself of other reviews to be reminded.I wandered into a reading of selections from this at Readercon and "The Book of May" knocked me dead. I bought the book. Readers, I was not intending to buy the book.The rest of it knocked me equally dead. The ones that stand out still are also from that reading: Sonya Taaffe's 'The Trinitite Golem' (to be fair, that's why I wandered int...
