Previous SFF Author: J.U. Nicolson
(1963- )
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a faculty member at Columbia College in Chicago. In addition to her bestselling debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, she is the author of two illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adventuress. She lives in Chicago.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I’m certainly late to the party when it comes to reading Audrey Niffenegger‘s first novel — I remember it making a huge splash when it was first published, and was astonished to flip open my copy and realise it was released back in 2003. Time certainly flies, which is an apt idiom to recall when reading The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Clare meets Henry for the first time when she’s six and he’s thirty-six.
Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 4.5 | Audrey Niffenegger | Edge, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Two sets of twins, a disillusioned husband, a grieving boyfriend, one ghost. The lives of Her Fearful Symmetry’s characters are as tangled as they sound, in a drama that will play out amongst the tombstones of Highgate Cemetery. A sticker on the front reminds potential readers that Niffenegger is the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Yet let that be the first and last time Niffenegger’s debut novel is mentioned. Her Fearful Symmetry is described as a ‘delicious and deadly ghost story,’ and should be judged in and of itself.
Ray McKenzie and Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 2.5 | Audrey Niffenegger | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger’s Raven Girl is a slim book that straddles categories. I thought it would be a graphic novel. It isn’t, quite. At 75 pages, I’d call it an illustrated novella. Niffenegger, in her Acknowledgments, calls it a new fairy tale. It certainly has fairy tale aspects, especially a “happy ending” that arrives almost out of nowhere, but it goes beyond traditional fairy tales. The book, Niffenegger tells us, was based on a story she created for the Royal Ballet in London, for a new ballet.
Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Audrey Niffenegger | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane edited by Jonathan Oliver
Magic is, almost by definition, esoteric and arcane; something known only to a few, kept secret from the masses, practiced only by initiates. Still, the grandiose title of this themed anthology of original stories may oversell it slightly, since many of the tales here are quite conventional. Jonathan Oliver gathered a shining collection of talent, though, and with fifteen stories spanning fantasy, dark fantasy, urban fantasy and horror, most readers will find something to enjoy.
The book has a lovely cover by Nicolas Delort.
Marion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Audrey Niffenegger, Dan Abnett, Gail Z. Martin, Gemma Files, Liz Williams, Storm Constantine, Will Hill | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Sam Weller & Mort Castle
Thanks to our recent book chats here, I’ve reread a bit of Ray Bradbury lately, so I was well primed to pick up the 2012 tribute anthology edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle, entitled Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, which collects 26 contemporary authors who were asked to write a story inspired or informed by Bradbury. The task was sufficiently non-restrictive that the stories run a gamut of style and type: horror,
Bill Capossere´s rating: 4 | Audrey Niffenegger, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Kelly Link, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Robert McCammon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Previous SFF Author: J.U. Nicolson
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