Tales from the End Christopher Fraser 9780956151926 Books
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End of the line. Amidst a backdrop of apocalypse, the characters in Tales From The End struggle with the slow breakdown of the sanity of the world around them, along with their own delicate minds. It sweeps across the globe, plunging us into unfamiliar settings and placing us face to face with the only people left alive to tell the often-touching, sometimes-gruesome and always downright absurd story. Included the moment when a whole town lost their eyes, a man whose body becomes a bomb scare, two blood-powered robots at the heart of a volcano, the disgruntled employee of a bubble factory, the dark underbelly of the consumer electronics industry, an exposé of post-apocalyptic prostitution, long-dead Hollywood actors screaming their way across Mumbai, ominous, hovering sanctuary ships gliding above Africa, and the botched teleportation of a dead stork. Ladies and gentlemen if they haven't slipped off to another dimension, fasten your seatbelts....
Tales from the End Christopher Fraser 9780956151926 Books
Tales From The End is an anthology of microfiction by Christopher J. Fraser, which he self-released just a few months ago. You won't find it at Barnes & Noble, but you can (and should) purchase it quite cheap from here.From the inside cover, the author describes it as stories, streams of consciousness and abstract concepts, and that is precisely what it ends up being. I'll be honest in saying I've never read anything quite like it, or have never exactly encountered microfiction. Nearly all of the stories are only about a page or two.
So I'll say the negative things first. Throughout the whole first section of the book, I was so bothered by just how short the stories were (even though I realize they're supposed to be). The stories themselves are good, they're creative and bizarre, and contain some of the most disturbing ideas I have ever encountered, but I constantly wanted them to continue or be more fleshed out. They are more like snapshots that convey a quick little situation or occurrence (usually something completely outlandish that comes upon an unsuspecting character) than technical short stories. They also all end with a similar `stinger' last line or sentence, that kind of strikes home the full darkness of the situation or rings out intense irony. And this I like.
Now, I have to be careful here because I don't know the author's intent with these stories, and I assume since he published them they are obviously supposed to be just as they are, for the reader to interpret or just enjoy. But at times it feels like you're flipping through a writer's idea book, and seeing all these great little nuggets that you wish he would turn into fuller stories. And I don't mean to sound like I'm bashing the stories, because they are good, and interesting and sometimes gross in a fun way. I say all this in reference only to the first section of the book (titled Genesis).
Now the second section (Exodus) is really what got my attention, and contains only one story, the longest in the book, titled The Life and Times of Paul Lincoln. I finally found the structure, depth, and expansion into the fictional-world I was longing for in all the previous stories. It is part futuristic, part semi-utopian, part murder-mystery, and as lame as that could sound mashed together it is an exceptional story.
It begins with a completely innocent and harmless young man walking home from his job and being killed outside his home without warning or explanation (this does not give anything away). And to put it in very simple terms the rest of the story explains who he was, where he came from, and why he was killed. But in the midst of all this, a dark futuristic vision of England unfolds between the lines, a society that has become the leading super-power in the world, with an economy so rich that it's inhabitants buy nearly anything they could desire only because they are bored. And underneath the city is the seldom-seen fuel to the upper world, a whole community of people raised underground who are little more than brain-dead workers who are animal in behavior and never see the real world above. Other than just being a great idea, the story is paced and positioned so well, meaning the way Fraser chooses to put each piece in the order that he does allows the story to unfold in just the right way, so that you only find out as much as you're supposed to without it giving away the end.
And when you reach the end, the conclusion is chilling and brilliant.This gave me a more excited attitude about the remainder of the book, the third and final section of stories titled Revelation.
The last section contains around 8-10 more shorts that all (if I'm remembering correctly) pertain to life after nuclear warheads have devastated either a specified area, or suggestively most of the earth. I do not know if this was intentional, or even if it completely works, but it almost seems like all the stories in this section happen within the same fictional universe, so to speak. None of the characters reappear, nor are the stories technically connected in any way, but it's almost as if you're seeing snapshots from these little pockets of the globe as characters cope and return to life after some universal disaster. I don't know, others may not see it this way, and whether it was intentional or not, I thought it was pretty cool. By the time I had finished the book, I had come to like his writing so much that it made me more fully appreciate the earlier pieces that I had at first not cared for.
Overall, it was very much worth the read, despite my own skepticism at the start. Chris really is an excellent writer, with a smart vocabulary and an incredibly imaginative mind, and as was proved with the Paul Lincoln story described above, he's able to tell a hell of a story. That said, according to his Tumblr posts (chrisjfraser.com) he's preparing to write a full length novel, and I truly cannot wait to see how he puts together a story within that larger medium.
If you're the sort who enjoys futuristic, post-apocalyptic, and pleasantly bizarre, dark fiction, buy this dang book already.
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Tales from the End Christopher Fraser 9780956151926 Books Reviews
Tales From The End is an anthology of microfiction by Christopher J. Fraser, which he self-released just a few months ago. You won't find it at Barnes & Noble, but you can (and should) purchase it quite cheap from here.
From the inside cover, the author describes it as stories, streams of consciousness and abstract concepts, and that is precisely what it ends up being. I'll be honest in saying I've never read anything quite like it, or have never exactly encountered microfiction. Nearly all of the stories are only about a page or two.
So I'll say the negative things first. Throughout the whole first section of the book, I was so bothered by just how short the stories were (even though I realize they're supposed to be). The stories themselves are good, they're creative and bizarre, and contain some of the most disturbing ideas I have ever encountered, but I constantly wanted them to continue or be more fleshed out. They are more like snapshots that convey a quick little situation or occurrence (usually something completely outlandish that comes upon an unsuspecting character) than technical short stories. They also all end with a similar `stinger' last line or sentence, that kind of strikes home the full darkness of the situation or rings out intense irony. And this I like.
Now, I have to be careful here because I don't know the author's intent with these stories, and I assume since he published them they are obviously supposed to be just as they are, for the reader to interpret or just enjoy. But at times it feels like you're flipping through a writer's idea book, and seeing all these great little nuggets that you wish he would turn into fuller stories. And I don't mean to sound like I'm bashing the stories, because they are good, and interesting and sometimes gross in a fun way. I say all this in reference only to the first section of the book (titled Genesis).
Now the second section (Exodus) is really what got my attention, and contains only one story, the longest in the book, titled The Life and Times of Paul Lincoln. I finally found the structure, depth, and expansion into the fictional-world I was longing for in all the previous stories. It is part futuristic, part semi-utopian, part murder-mystery, and as lame as that could sound mashed together it is an exceptional story.
It begins with a completely innocent and harmless young man walking home from his job and being killed outside his home without warning or explanation (this does not give anything away). And to put it in very simple terms the rest of the story explains who he was, where he came from, and why he was killed. But in the midst of all this, a dark futuristic vision of England unfolds between the lines, a society that has become the leading super-power in the world, with an economy so rich that it's inhabitants buy nearly anything they could desire only because they are bored. And underneath the city is the seldom-seen fuel to the upper world, a whole community of people raised underground who are little more than brain-dead workers who are animal in behavior and never see the real world above. Other than just being a great idea, the story is paced and positioned so well, meaning the way Fraser chooses to put each piece in the order that he does allows the story to unfold in just the right way, so that you only find out as much as you're supposed to without it giving away the end.
And when you reach the end, the conclusion is chilling and brilliant.This gave me a more excited attitude about the remainder of the book, the third and final section of stories titled Revelation.
The last section contains around 8-10 more shorts that all (if I'm remembering correctly) pertain to life after nuclear warheads have devastated either a specified area, or suggestively most of the earth. I do not know if this was intentional, or even if it completely works, but it almost seems like all the stories in this section happen within the same fictional universe, so to speak. None of the characters reappear, nor are the stories technically connected in any way, but it's almost as if you're seeing snapshots from these little pockets of the globe as characters cope and return to life after some universal disaster. I don't know, others may not see it this way, and whether it was intentional or not, I thought it was pretty cool. By the time I had finished the book, I had come to like his writing so much that it made me more fully appreciate the earlier pieces that I had at first not cared for.
Overall, it was very much worth the read, despite my own skepticism at the start. Chris really is an excellent writer, with a smart vocabulary and an incredibly imaginative mind, and as was proved with the Paul Lincoln story described above, he's able to tell a hell of a story. That said, according to his Tumblr posts (chrisjfraser.com) he's preparing to write a full length novel, and I truly cannot wait to see how he puts together a story within that larger medium.
If you're the sort who enjoys futuristic, post-apocalyptic, and pleasantly bizarre, dark fiction, buy this dang book already.
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