Review: A Whole Bunch'a Giants
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2011
There's a whole bunch'a giants looking over Chuck Wendig's shoulder these days. Giants like Ray Bradbury, Charlie Beaumont, Sake, E.A. Poe, Rod Serling, Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelly, Shirley Jackson, Catherine L. (C.L.) Moore and all those other men and women who made modern fantasy what it is today. They're nodding their heads and muttering, "Finally. A guy who gets it."What Chuck gets that they got is: There's a human face that HAS to be put on horrifying events in order for them to have any meaning at all.Chuck's unique work has that stamp. His stories fly to the depths of the sky and to the fires above. They make you shudder and laugh and -- sometimes -- leak a tear or two and say "Awww . . ." but they never let you forget the eyes that observe his eerie visions are human ones; the hearts that beat to his phantasmagorial music belong to ordinary (well, maybe, a little more than ordinary. no matter. it's still true.) people.And that's what makes a giant.