Review: Fifteen Short Stories - Sure to Delight
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2012
If you're searching for Nicholson books and reading reviews, you'll no doubt run across my name. I'm making it my mission to read everything this author writes, and in appreciation for the hours of enjoyment received, I always try to leave a review.This collection of short stories is different in that the variety is astounding. Many authors write in one genre, and that's that. But there seems to be no end to the variety of genres Scott can and does write, and write well. This collection is perfect as an introduction, or for times when you don't want to get embroiled in one of his longer books (those you simply can't put down). Even in his short stories, the prose continues to delight:"Her bones rattled like a cage of sticks, her flesh a leathery prison, her body as light as the birds that picked over the battlegrounds at sunset. Ibeja accepted the mating the same way she accepted the dying moon, the gray emptiness of the fields, and the dust-choked riverbeds that stretched bleakly beyond the village." (The Way of All Flesh)Seriously? And that's just in the first chapter of the first story, and 14 more to go. The stories are separated into categories, with a linked table of contents for easy navigation. Phantasmia - 7 stores and Dystopia - 6 stories; with an Afterword and a Bonus Story. If "The First" is your first Nicholson, it surely won't be the last.