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All Living Writers Listed – Je M’AiMe

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Living writers with visual AI experiments triggered by my reviews of their work into shifting collages… (1)

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STEPHEN KING

BERNARD MACLAVERTY

THOMAS LIGOTTI

NINA ALLAN

RHYS HUGHES

NICHOLAS ROYLE

STEVE RASNIC TEM

GLEN HIRSHBERG

QUENTIN S. CRISP

COLIN INSOLE

JOHN HOWARD

MARK VALENTINE

KAREN HEULER

JULIE TRAVIS

CHARLES WILKINSON

REBECCA LLOYD

STEVE DUFFY

REGGIE OLIVER

D. P. WATT

ALEXANDER ZELENYJ

CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN

LIVING WRITERS TO BE CONTINUED HERE: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/aicraft-being-flown-amid-the-amorphous-thermals-of-literature/

My AI decorated reviews of dead writers

Ghost Mice by Karen Heuler

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Published in the collection ‘A Slice of the Dark’ from Fairwood Press (2022)

“; pieces of change rearranged.”

This story really put my head in a spin about the gestalt that is me, the plural of me not only being mes, if not mice, but also concepts of laptop mouses, if not Mr Jinks’ cartoon meeces! This surely is a unique classic of disorientation in a world of personal computers, obliquely stirring in me wild themes and variations on the earlier obsessionally observed world in Aldiss’s ‘Report on Probability A’ (my review here), viz. observations  of observations, here, in the Heuler, a jinxed crisis of identity during a perhaps reluctant retirement from one’s workaday life in older age, where both reconstructed memories and anxieties coalesce in rogue rodent selves messaging an intrinsic self. 

I loved it. 

But I hate pieces to meeces!

My previous reviews of Karen Heuler; https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/karen-heuler/

The above review is part of my project here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/39772/

The ‘Dessemination’ of the New

To any author Des has reviewed before — if they have a new story recently published or soon to be published in a collection or anthology  — they may have a review that also advertises where it is published.

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Previous such one-off reviews here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/06/the-single-story-toward-a-novel-world/

Strange Tales: Tartarus Press at 30

Tartarus Press 2020

Edited by Rosalie Parker

My previous reviews of this publisher: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/r-b-russell-tartarus-press/

Stories by Rebecca Lloyd, Mark Valentine, Andrew Michael Hurley, N.A. Sulway, Stephen Volk, Inna Effress, Ibrahim R. Ineke, Eric Stener Carlson, Jonathan Preece, Tom Heaton, J.M. Walsh, Angela Slatter, John Gaskin, D.P. Watt, Karen Heuler, John Linwood Grant, Carly Holmes.

When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…

“I see a point and I see the links to the points that constellate them. I go for the ones with the most links. They’re obviously the strongest.”

Started reviewing THE CLOCKWORM AND OTHER STORIES by Karen Heuler here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/01/21/the-clockworm-karen-heuler/

36b7c045-5216-4580-ac43-1dfce02c457cHERE AND THERE

“She seemed to think through her fingertips, always reaching for shapes that she could use to build her bridges.”

The inspired and up-spiring story of Nola Poterri, from childhood onward into age, a story that affected me deeply. What a magnificent start to this book! From outset, she is obsessed with building bridges, layers of them, from point to point, centre to centre, miraculously described, towards an invisible bridge and paper ones, building sometimes to the chagrin of neighbours, later with their gratitude, and with the perhaps equivocal support of her father, but enduring the lack of support for women as civil engineers, and as beset by sexual abuse. Infrequently described deadpan, sometimes magically. The yearning machinations, as I see them, towards bridge-nirvana are implicit and explicit in this story, a story that serves as a wonderful fable for my own gestalt real-time reviewing and other literary bridge-building over most of my life…

“I see a point and I see the links to the points that constellate them. I go for the ones with the most links. They’re obviously the strongest.”

The photo above first appeared in one of my reviews in 2013 HERE.