DIFFERENT KINDS OF DARKNESS
David Langford, . . Cosmos, $29.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-59224-122-4
Even the most serious of these 36 tales of fantasy, horror and science fiction are charged with a subversive wit and spirit of playfulness that show Langford's determination to turn genre clichés on their heads. "Cube Root" plays out as a standard post-apocalyptic scenario about the breakdown of social order following a nuclear strike—until the soldiers whose eyes it is seen through discover the disaster was faked, and that they're possibly part of a behavioral study. In "The Motivation," pictures discovered in a pornographer's stash point to a mystery whose solution provides its own peculiar titillation. A physicist by profession, Langford (
Reviewed on: 05/03/2004
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 288 pages - 978-1-59224-121-7