Selected Short Stories Featuring New Corpse Smell edition by Nicolas Wilson Literature Fiction eBooks
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This collection includes fifteen action-packed short stories, mostly science fiction, horror, and military fiction.
Shades of Cray The story of the first transracial individual.
Leaving Lost Atlantis A man writes his ex-wife, after discovering what happened to Atlantis.
An Iraqi Christmas Carol A small group of soldiers and an Iraqi policeman mount a rescue for a kidnapped boy.
Quarter A military team designed for assassinations loses control over one of its members in the middle of a mission.
Werehouse A man trying to help his homeless cousin runs afoul of a society of murderers.
Atlas Dug Up Two philosophical equals have a love affair that continues after death.
Blood Falls An expedition to the Antarctic goes south, after a rock wall collapses.
Murder Your Darlings A writer finds himself convinced one of his characters is trying to kill him, after his loved ones start getting hurt.
Mine A doctor exacts revenge on a former-General.
Failure Cascade A ride on a space elevator goes horribly wrong.
Euthenasia A surgeon gets caught between his oath and his vengeful calling.
Shrink An executive ponders the consequences of modern business.
Indian Gift An ex-outlaw is drafted into convincing an Indian to sell his land.
Parallel A professor familiar with inter-dimensional travel tries convincing one of his students to kill another.
New Corpse Smell Observing decomposition.
Selected Short Stories Featuring New Corpse Smell edition by Nicolas Wilson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Selected Short Stories Featuring New Corpse Smell edition by Nicolas Wilson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The author has a strange outlook on life and a vivid imagination. His stories are rough, tough and with a twist. They range from Fantasy to everyday (?) life. I enjoyed especially the ones about Atlantis and the Iraqi Christmas Carol. In general, the stories are not my scene but would appeal to the reader who likes their fiction with a bite - occasionally literally.
The book is well written but with one flaw - the formatting squashes the stories together and the Table of Contents link is in the wrong place. Something I found tiresome but persevered with because of the calibre of the writing.
Nicolas Wilson has penned a collection of creative and disturbing stories, all of which are thought-provoking and surprising. Each story is wildly different from the last, but each of them is gripping and chilling in its own right. It's a collection impossible to read quickly and you will not be ready to move on to the next story until you've pondered the one before.
I found it extremely hard to pick just one favourite, I have at least three. 'Shades of Cray', about the first transracial procedure is gruesome in parts, and asks some very deep questions about race and identity. 'Blood Falls' contains some wonderful imagery and descriptions, eg 'We have a unique experience to not just look at the piss seeping out of this lake's urethra, but we can stick our fingers in its guts and see what squirms out of the primordial ooze.' Careful what you wish for...
'Mine' is another brilliantly dark tale. Imagine you're a heart surgeon. Your country has been decimated by war. Your family has been torn apart. One of the perpetrators of the atrocities is on your table. What do you do? I'm willing to bet it isn't half as macabre and fitting as Nicolas Wilson dreamed up.
Fans of Stephen King will love this collection, and my only complaint is that these are short stories and not novels. I've gone straight to to find more books by Nicolas Wilson - I have plenty of time to read now that I daren't switch off the bedside light...
I am grateful to Nicolas Wilson for providing me with a free copy of 'New Corpse Smell' in exchange for my honest, non-reciprocal review.
This collection of short stories and opening chapters covers a variety of topics from the Iraqi war to deep space exploration; there are flights of technological, psychological, philosophical and paranormal imagination here, but the casual narrative tone - predominantly the first person - and unadorned language somehow make `weird' oddly `workaday'. Which is a good thing, given the bizarre, sometimes macabre but always challenging stories in this collection.
In some of the stories Nicholas Wilson uses fantasy to tackle some hard questions of reality is it right to take the law into our own hands? If society accepts that sometimes a person is born the wrong sex, should we also accept that sometimes a person is born the wrong race? What happens when the lines between imagination and reality are crossed? I liked this concept; I am not generally a reader of fantasy but when it is used to reflect back and illuminate real life I'm prepared to ride with it. Unfortunately, for this reader, some of the stories travelled much too far beyond left field and lost this philosophical edge. Interestingly, of them all, I disliked the title piece the most; beyond macabre, I found it distasteful.
Nicholas Wilson clearly has a very strong grasp on the futuristic, fantastical and alternative worlds in his head; they are supported by clear rationales of technology and science. But for the reader to be persuaded by them the writer must be able to draw them convincingly - to get them onto the page; the reader needs to understand it before s/he can believe it, and for alternative realities, the far future and realms of advanced science this cannot be quickly achieved. I thought Nicholas Wilson's choice of the short story as the vehicle for his fantasy worlds hardly gave them enough scope; they needed a much wider canvas to do them justice. The opening paragraphs were so densely packed with contextual information that I found myself overwhelmed at times, plunged, rather than invited or - better still - enticed into these new and challenging lands of his imagination. On a few occasions, despite the information overload of the openings, I was still struggling to orientate myself as the narrative unfolded and got to the end sometimes still without a secure hand-hold on what was going on. `Quarter' was a case in point. Perhaps that's why, of the whole collection, I enjoyed the chapters which were tasters of novels to come; there was discovery, rather than deluge. What is more, the novels promise much better dialogue; the writer allows his characters to banter; the exchanges are illuminating and witty - so much more satisfying than the abrupt, sometimes awkwardly halting conversations of the short stories.
Most of the stories are told in the first person and I would have liked a greater variety of voice. The narrators began to sound the same with the slightly cynical, late-night, world-weary edge of Philip Marlow. Those stories told in the third person made a really refreshing change.
This publication is a clever taster of better things to come, and a showcase of the writer's numerous imaginative universes.
I enjoyed this book tremendously. It is a great mix of really cool stories. I'll be looking for more from Nicolas Wilson. Highly recommend!
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