2013 Reading List Update!
Finally finished off The Vampire Genevieve by Jack Yeovil(aka. Kim Newman of Anno Dracula fame). Which brings my total read books for 2013 up to... 3. Fuuuuu....
1. Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand
2. Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai and Outlaws by Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda
3. The Vampire Genevieve by Jack Yeovil
I really enjoyed it, though it took a little while to get through. It's a collection of stories featuring Genevieve, a predecessor of sorts to the Genevieve from Newman's Anno Dracula stories, but quite often she's a peripheral character in them. Despite, or perhaps because of Yeovil/Newman's willingness to sideline the title character we get a wide variety of tales featuring a large and varied cast of characters. Detectives, scryers, playwrights, revolutionaries, nobleman, serial killers and more. It's really a pretty solid collection and many of the stories are nice satirical takes on the fantasy and related genres. Good stuff.