Those first two stories show you right away that you're in for something special and unique. Snyder's "Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars," a story with a heavy Starship Troopers vibe replete with body horror and an unlikely relationship between a black woman and a former member of the Aryan Brotherhood. Gathering together a diverse group of voices from across the stratosphere of horror fiction, the book wastes no time ramping up the pace and tension with Remy Nakamura's brilliant tale of assimilation, "The Children of Leng," followed immediately by Lucy A. In the introduction to Ride the Star Wind, editor Scott Gable says, "We wanted to find out what kind of cosmic weird tales weren’t being told."Īnd I'm here to tell you right from the jump that they discovered wonders dark and terrifying, yet at the same time endearing and beautiful, often filling you with a sense of awe and wonder at the sheer originality and transformative power the authors answered the call with. ![]() As it turns out, those are two great tastes that taste great together. When it comes to fiction, if I were to name two extreme pleasures of mine, they would be space opera and cosmic horror that dips into the Cthulhu mythos but takes it in unique directions. Each entry in the book is so much of a standout that if you were to ask me to name the one that most deserves your attention, I would simply say, "yes." ![]() ![]() And if the sheer breadth of the thing weren't enough, it's one of those rare anthologies wherein every single tale deserves an individual review of its own, so it's difficult to determine which to include and which to leave out. Weighing in at 450 pages and containing twenty-nine stories, it's an expansive tome to say the least. It's hard to do justice to a book such as Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird within the space of a single book review.
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