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by Michael Cisco

ISBN: 1894815866
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Prime (March 1, 2004)
Language: English
Pages: 252
ePub: 1666 kb
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Rating: 4.3
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Category: Literature
Subcategory: Genre Fiction

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A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild. Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece.

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Michael Cisco (born October 13, 1970) is an American writer, Deleuzian academic, teacher, and translator currently living in New York City. He is best known for his first novel, The Divinity Student, winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. He has described his work as "de-genred" fiction. Similar books by other authors

Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. Similar books by other authors. Behold the Void Philip Fracassi. Teatro Grottesco Thomas Ligotti. Gormenghast (Gormenghast, book 2) Mervyn Peake. Father of Lies Brian Evenson.

Tyrant Books is an independent book publisher based in Rome, Italy and New York, New York. It was created in 2009 by Giancarlo DiTrapano as an offshoot of the acclaimed NY Tyrant Magazine, also founded by DiTrapano, in 2006. Tyrant Books was created. Tyrant Books was created to publish books worthy of acclaim but less suited to large publishing houses, often because they are incendiary or avant garde.

Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today, and The Narrator is Cisco at his startling best. CHINA MIEVILLE, author of Perdido Street Station

Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today, and The Narrator is Cisco at his startling best. CHINA MIEVILLE, author of Perdido Street Station. An extraordinary story of war and the supernatural that combines the creepiness of Alien with the clear-eyed gaze of Full Metal Jacket. Welcome to Literature Tube Archieve The free online library containing 450000+ books. Read books for free from anywhere and from any device. Listen to books in audio format instead of reading.

A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." -- Thomas Ligotti

Comments: (4)

Stanober

I am bewildered. The book had beautiful words arranged in long passages. But their overall meaning didn't congeal in any purposeful way that i could discern. Came here for a Gene Wolfe Jeff Vandermeer hybrid, found a chaotic surreal dream I can barely recall.

Scream_I LOVE YOU

I was amazed by Cisco's The Divinity Student and dove into this one expecting more of the same... but happily it's altogether different and packs a new suitcase full of wonders.
The world here seems a bit closer to our own than that of The Divinity Student... the characters a bit more familiar in their motivations. The story is actually wilder and weirder but perhaps less mysterious. That, or I've grown accustomed to Mr. Cisco's charms and the culture shock is muted now.
Either way it's an excellent read.

Danial

If you haven't read Michael Cisco, this is where you should start.
Revealing anything about this book is tantamount to betrayal. Just keep an open mind and be prepared to not comprehend the first time. It is an experience you are paying for, not just a book. Definitely the most accessible of all his novels, still a baroque masterpiece.

Kigabar

Michael Cisco is often compared to the brilliant Thomas Ligotti, but to me he clearly has a vision all his own, as demonstrated in his first novel THE DIVINITY STUDENT, in his story "The Genius of Assassins" in the anthology LEVIATHAN 3, and now in his novel THE TYRANT. Indeed, THE TYRANT can not be compared to anything I've read except, perhaps - remotely - to fellow surrealist Alfred Kubin's THE OTHER SIDE, since in both novels a powerful and frightening figure remains tantalizingly but resolutely "off-screen" for much of the book, while still exerting his malignant influence over the proceedings. Cisco's book is a quest story, a road trip, a love story, a keyhole look into heaven and hell, and most of all an eerie, slow-motion train of connected nightmares, conveying bizarre characters through unsettling places. He is a master of strange settings, odd details, uncanny images. His prose style seems almost like automatic writing at times, quirky and poetic. The atmosphere is laid on thick, but this is no misclaculation; the environments and the action and the characters are as one. There are few authors who can rival him for conveying the feeling of dream. His cinematic counterpart might be David Lynch, or the Brothers Quay. Cisco's work isn't for the average reader; it's for the discriminating, the jaded, the daring reader. He is absinthe in a world of Pepsi. So drink deep, and enjoy the hallucinations.

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