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    Telling the Map: Stories
    Telling the Map: Stories
    Telling the Map: Stories
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    Telling the Map: Stories

    By Christopher Rowe

    3.5/5

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  • Author is a part-time bookseller at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY.
  • Well known local raconteur, great reader.
  • First book of stories by much acclaimed writer.
  • Huge community support among science fiction writers and readers and also in Kentucky.
  • Readers have been waiting ten years for this book since his knock-out story "The Voluntary State" was published to vast acclaim. His unique vision of the world, beginning in his home state of Kentucky, and going out from there has long entranced readers so there is great demand built up for this book.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSmall Beer Press
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781618731333
    Telling the Map: Stories
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    Christopher Rowe

    Christopher Rowe is the author of the critically acclaimed novellas The Navigating Fox and These Prisoning Hills, as well as a story collection regarded as one of best of recent years, Telling the Map. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Neukom, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, as well as others. He lives in Kentucky.

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    • 4/5
      There are ten stories in this collection by Christopher Rowe and there is not a dud among them. His stories are tight and his evocation of the US South is strong and smooth. The characters and their emotions are well rounded and developed and each story pulls the reader in quickly and holds him or her firmly. One or two of the stories stand out as perhaps a little overlong but they are nonetheless the very good stories and so Rowe can be forgiven for not editing as tightly as I might have done and his tone and style does not waver.Rowe is a confident and compelling storyteller and I am glad to have read these stories which I might have missed had I not had a review copy, sci-fi not being my favourite genre. In truth though my recent experience of short stories coming from both the sci-fi and the fantasy genres has been extremely positive and I suspect that some of the best short story artists in the US are operating in these two genres.
    • 4/5
      There are ten stories in this collection by Christopher Rowe and there is not a dud among them. His stories are tight and his evocation of the US South is strong and smooth. The characters and their emotions are well rounded and developed and each story pulls the reader in quickly and holds him or her firmly. One or two of the stories stand out as perhaps a little overlong but they are nonetheless the very good stories and so Rowe can be forgiven for not editing as tightly as I might have done and his tone and style does not waver.Rowe is a confident and compelling storyteller and I am glad to have read these stories which I might have missed had I not had a review copy, sci-fi not being my favourite genre. In truth though my recent experience of short stories coming from both the sci-fi and the fantasy genres has been extremely positive and I suspect that some of the best short story artists in the US are operating in these two genres.
    • 4/5
      An interesting but somewhat inconsistent book of short stories. I particularly like the novella that ends that collection, which is set in a near future America with an AI run amok, other folks living like the Amish and a majority of people seem to be cranially connected to cable TV.
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing, in exchange for an honest review. Science fiction, and dystopian fiction, is a genre outside my normal reading habits. But I found this collection of stories to be quite imaginative and captivating. Rowe is a good storyteller, and the collection is engaging. Well written, and a strong voice. I didn't know what to expect, but the stories were so creative and full, that I forgot my fantasy prejudices, and dove right in.
    • 4/5
      "The Border State"In a strange post-apocalypse Kentucky, setting off on a bicycle race across the state, the twin brother and sister faced the enemy of unknown nature. It combines the wildness of south border of US with advanced technologies rendered magical.
    • 3/5
      This book isn't for me. I found the stories weird. Sure, some were really nice but still weird. I'm not saying this is a bad book. I just didn't get it. Maybe, since I am not a native speaker, this is a language problem. I understood the words, but not their meaning in the context of the book. The author uses lots of symbolic language and metaphors.I wasn't sure when he meant something literally and when figuratively. I suppose this book is for readers who know more of and about the author. It's for people who know what they're getting into. I made notes about each of the 10 stories: 3 I liked very much, 2 were weird but really nice and the rest was weird and confusing. So since I liked half of the stories and it's probably my own fault that I didn't understand the rest I am rating this 3 out of 5 stars.

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