The Beasts of Love
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Rated 5 starsThe Stories That Made Steven Utley's Reputation
Most of my experience with Utley's fiction prior to this collection had been with the Silurian stories series in SF magazines. This collection, as Lisa Tuttle points out in her introduction, is not what you would expect if you were expecting the collection to be something similar to Utley's "Silurian Tales." Included in this collection are none of "Silurian Tales" (these are collected elsewhere), and there are also very few...
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Rated 5 starsThis is the good stuff! Highly Recommended.
From the acid twist of "The Country Doctor" to the humor of "Little Whalers"--possibly the best mashup ever, of Moby Dick and Little Women--the elegaic beauty of "The Man at the Bottom of the Sea" and the mordant fall of "Once More, With Feeling," the stories in this collection are wide ranging, thoroughly engaging meditations composed of intelligence, grace, and darkness. Beasts of Love, indeed. Grotesqueries drawn fine,...
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