Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, Bram Stoker Award, ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, Gustavus Myers Award, Locus Award, Spectrum Award, Parents’ Choice Award, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, finalist for the Stoker Award, Philip K. “: an eerie, psychologically gripping urban tale.” “ plays between life and machine art and isolation creativity and passion. “In CHRISTOPHER WILD, Koja gives us an intensely romantic vision - one that is entirely appropriate for Christopher Marlowe, the man turned legend.” Over the years Ive read this book a few times and it always gets at the soft places. “ is a gothic, glam-rock take on love and sex and death that reads a little like what would happen if Sarah Waters and Angela Carter played a drunken game of Exquisite Corpse in a brothel. Sure, I struggled some with Kojas jagged prose style and abstractions, but wanted that, wanted horror that wasnt safe, clean, predictable, 'normal,' with the usual monsters and bogeymen and possessed children and slashers on the loose. “VELOCITIES: STORIES at their most superb where they study the strength in bodies perceived as delicate or fragile … Koja explores the misunderstood and the dark.” THE CIPHER was the winner of the 1991 Bram Stoker Award, and was recently named one of io9.com's Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm. “THE CIPHER: A stone-cold landmark of the genre.
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