Caitlín R. Kiernan
Autor(a) de The Drowning Girl
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Séries
Obras por Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Yellow Book 21 exemplares
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
False/Starts II 14 exemplares
C is for the Crimson Alphabet 13 exemplares
The Aubergine Alphabet (A Fourth Primer) 13 exemplares
The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (2014) 9 exemplares
Refugees 8 exemplares
Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia 7 exemplares
The Chartreuse Alphabet (A Fifth Primer) 6 exemplares
Living a Boy's Adventure Tale 6 exemplares
The Girl Who Would Be Death #2 6 exemplares
False Starts 5 exemplares
Sanderlings 5 exemplares
The Girl Who Would Be Death #4 5 exemplares
The Girl Who Would Be Death #3 5 exemplares
The Merewife (a prologue) 4 exemplares
The Melusine (1898) [Short story] 3 exemplares
The Colliers' Venus (1893) 3 exemplares
As Red As Red 3 exemplares
The Steam Dancer (1896) 3 exemplares
Persephone 3 exemplares
The Belated Burial 3 exemplares
Faces in Revolving Souls 3 exemplares
Tidal Forces 3 exemplares
On the Road to Jefferson 3 exemplares
A Little Damned Book of Days 3 exemplares
The Worm in My Mind's Eye 3 exemplares
La Peau Verte 3 exemplares
Riding the White Bull {short story} 3 exemplares
Emptiness Spoke Eloquent 3 exemplares
The Girl Who Would Be Death 3 exemplares
Study for "Estate" 2 exemplares
Bast: Eternity Game 2 exemplares
Onion 2 exemplares
The Long Hall on the Top Floor 2 exemplares
Escape Artist 2 exemplares
The Bone's Prayer 2 exemplares
The Pearl Diver 2 exemplares
Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea [short fiction] 2 exemplares
A Redress For Andromeda 2 exemplares
Galápagos 2 exemplares
Ode To Katan Amano 2 exemplares
The Maltese Unicorn 2 exemplares
Pickman's Other Model (1929) 2 exemplares
Goggles (c. 1910) 2 exemplares
Homesick (The Dreaming #44) 2 exemplares
Masques and Hedgehogs (The Dreaming #45) 2 exemplares
Mirror Mirror (The Dreaming #46) 2 exemplares
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection 2 exemplares
Giants in the Earth 2 exemplares
Andromeda Among the Stones 2 exemplares
The Drowned Geologist 2 exemplares
Alabaster Volume 2: Grimmer Tales 1 exemplar
The Dreaming: Fox and Hounds 1 exemplar
The Dreaming: Many Mansions 1 exemplar
The Dreaming 9-12 (KIERNAN) 1 exemplar
False Starts 1 exemplar
The Dreaming: The Gyres 1 exemplar
STUDY FOR "ESTATE" 1 exemplar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 19 1 exemplar
The Ape's Wife [short story] 1 exemplar
The Little Damned Book of Days 1 exemplar
The Dreaming Vol. 1 No. 17 1 exemplar
The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean 1 exemplar
The King of Birds 1 exemplar
Sirenia digest 1 exemplar
On The Reef 1 exemplar
Second Sight (The Dreaming #51) 1 exemplar
Shatter (The Dreaming #49) 1 exemplar
Scary Monsters (The Dreaming #48) 1 exemplar
Exiles Part 3 (The Dreaming #54) 1 exemplar
Two Worlds and in Between [story] 1 exemplar
Exiles Part 2 (The Dreaming #53) 1 exemplar
The Dreaming: Unkindness of One 1 exemplar
Exiles Part 1 (The Dreaming #52) 1 exemplar
Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) 1 exemplar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #1 1 exemplar
Untitled Monster Doodle #1 1 exemplar
The Sandman Presents: Bast #2 1 exemplar
Untitled Monster Doodle #2 1 exemplar
The Cats of River Street (1925) 1 exemplar
The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings 1 exemplar
Random Thoughts Before A Fatal Crash 1 exemplar
The Dreaming: Souvenirs 1 exemplar
So Runs the World Away 1 exemplar
A Season of Broken Dolls 1 exemplar
Narylathotep: The Crawling Chaos 1 exemplar
Standing Water 1 exemplar
Alabaster [short story] 1 exemplar
One Tree Hill (The World as Cataclysm) 1 exemplar
In The Water Works 1 exemplar
Postcards From The King Of Tides 1 exemplar
Pony 1 exemplar
Bainbridge 1 exemplar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 18, No. 10 [201], October 2022, Passage of Venus in Front of the Sun 1 exemplar
Sirenia Digest, Vol. 19, No. 2 [208], May 2023. A Buyer's Guide to Commonplace Bizzareness 1 exemplar
The Dinosaur Tourist 1 exemplar
Estate 1 exemplar
Ode to Edvard Munch 1 exemplar
Bela's Plot 1 exemplar
Houses Under the Sea [short story] 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories (1998) — Posfácio, algumas edições — 598 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005) — Contribuidor — 530 exemplares
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contribuidor — 430 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 266 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six (2012) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 138 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eight (2014) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven (2017) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 54 exemplares
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 59 (December 2015) - Queers Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue (2015) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Twelve (2018) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
New York Fantastic: Fantasy Stories from the City that Never Sleeps (2017) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Subterranean Magazine, Issue #6 (Fall 2006) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Kiernan, Caitlín Rebekah
- Outros nomes
- Wright, Kenneth Robert (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1964-05-26
- Sexo
- genderfluid
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland (birth)
USA - País (no mapa)
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Dublin, Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Leeds, Alabama, USA
Trussville, Alabama, USA - Educação
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Colorado at Boulder - Ocupações
- paleontologist
writer - Agente
- Merrilee Heifetz (Writers House)
- Nota de desambiguação
- Kiernan is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns.
Membros
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Well of Stars and Shadow" by Caitlín R. Kiernan em The Weird Tradition (Setembro 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "Houses Under the Sea" by Caitlin R. Kiernan em The Weird Tradition (Maio 2021)
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LGBTQIA Horror (2)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 295
- Also by
- 166
- Membros
- 7,849
- Popularidade
- #3,098
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 262
- ISBN
- 163
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 39
I came upon Caitlín R. Kiernan when asking for some non-male voices in weird lit; and came upon this book at my local indie bookstore.
I essentially bought it on the name of the author alone, which may have been a mistake... this book is the second in a series, and although none of that is made explicit in the narrative, it does feel like I'm in the middle of a party that's already halfway started.
The narrative jumps across wide swaths of time, from the 60's to some 150 years in the future, and usually a different character each time as well. There may or may not be a struggle between two forces, over either twin sisters or something that those sisters represent. The sisters and a doctor who has some control over them are referred to in most of the vignettes, but usually obliquely.
This means that the actual conflict and dramatic intent of the scenes is always elsewhere than in the scene itself. This can be done to really compelling effect, but it misses the mark here, because it feels as though either I should already know the stakes involved, or that obscuring those details is somehow enhancing the mystery.
The climactic end of the book, and it's denouement, both suffer from this lack of information. I think I know what happened, but I couldn't tell you why it was important, or why all of these shadowy forces seemed to care.
There are also a lot of pop culture and literary references, which don't feel like they add to the story so much as wink at the audience... and an overarching chess motif which again doesn't feel like it adds to the story so much as adopts a genre convention of opposing forces referring to chess. It's even weakened by the characters themselves using it; moments like that drop me out since it feels like no one would refer to 'taking someone's knight' with a straight face, unless we're in a melodramatic genre mode, and we're not. We're in a gritty semi-realistic weird lit mode.
My first impression was that this might be a symptom of an author being just a bit too clever. Leaning on not giving information as a way of making the puzzle difficult, and references to tickle the dopamine part of our brain that enjoys making correlations. Not giving information to the reader doesn't inherently make it more interesting, especially when the characters have the information and we don't. It's a fine line between compelling us to want to figure it out and just frustrating us with too few pieces to be able to intuit the whole... and this book feels like it teeters towards that second result.
After reading it, I read other reviews to see if anyone else was experiencing something similar, and it does seem like I'm not alone here. However, the fans of Caitlín and her work make a good case for a continual re-reading of the text, suggesting that there are more answers to be found in the hints and references. This might be true... and I'm willing to keep reading more of her work and coming back to this.
I will also say that Caitlín can definitely write. The character voices are all distinct and the prose wonderfully reflects the voice and tone of the characters. There are descriptions and scenes that stick with me even now. In that respect, as an introduction to her work and answering the question about reading more, it's done it's job. I'll be reading more of Caitlín in the future, despite my somewhat lacking opinion of this book!
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