Original cover (Tor), 1996 on the left; new cover (Recorded Books), 2023 on the right. Which one captures gothic speculative fiction best?
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I saw this book in Paragraph bookstore in Mtl (the old location) a few weeks after it came out. I picked it up in the store, intrigued, read the first sentence, lost my breath, sat down, open the book again, and the sentence was still there. The cover calls to a gothic book, and it starts as such, before switching to horror, then SF, to epic fantasy and ends in a mix of all three. A feat of genius.
1️⃣ Black and white. I'm reading on my e-readers
2️⃣ See above
3️⃣ The blue iris is actually purple, but no matter.
4️⃣ Do bits have colour? I'm on e-readers.
5️⃣ There is a big blue Cookie Monster coin bank.
6️⃣ Tagged
7️⃣ The only one that comes to mind right now is Georgette Leblanc and she and I are not talking. So no.
8️⃣ My e-readers.
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📘De Biblioteca, by Umberto Eco (I think it's titled Libraries in English)
✒️ Candace Jane Dorsey
🎥 The Dark Crystal
🍩 Doughnut, of course.
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1️⃣ There are so many! Probably tagged. It's all the genres together, but it's SF.
2️⃣ Never liked many of them, but I logged *hours* on Crystal Quest on the Mac back in the day.
3️⃣ Japan (yes, I know they broke up in 1982).
4️⃣ Wrath of Khan, or Last Starfighter, or Enemy Mine, or Labyrinth, or Princess Bride... Why are you making me choose?
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1️⃣ Lots of drinking the titular wine in this book.
2️⃣ Diet Coke. I do not drink alcohol.
3️⃣ ABBA?
4️⃣ Chariot in French, trolley in English.
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pickThis is also one of my favorite covers. Which is strange since I find it rather ugly. But it is so reminiscent of the book itself: dark, quietly violent, cloying and viscious. Black wine also has the best, most gutt-wrenching opening line of any book: "There is a scarred, twisted old madwoman in a cage in the courtyard."
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