
Feast and Famine
2013
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3.86
Average Rating
173
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In Feast and Famine Adrian Tchaikovsky delivers an ambitious and varied collections of stories. Ranging from the deep space hard SF of the title story (originally in Solaris Rising 2) to the high fantasy of “The Sun in the Morning” (a Shadows of the Apt tale originally featured in Deathray magazine), from the Peter S Beagle influenced “The Roar of the Crowd” to the supernatural Holmes-esque intrigue of “The Dissipation Club” the author delivers a dazzling array of quality short stories that traverse genre. Ten stories in all, five of which appear here for the very first time. Contents:
- Introduction
- Feast & Famine
- The Artificial Man
- The Roar of the Crowd
- Good Taste
- The Dissipation Club
- Rapture
- Care
- 2144 and All That
- The God Shark
- The Sun of the Morning
- About the Author
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3.86
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author · 65 books
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.