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Liminal States
By Zack Parsons
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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“An awe-inspiring, helter-skelter journey through mind-blowing SF, western dime novel, noir mystery, and near-future dystopian horror” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and twenty-first-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined—and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history.
It’s a remarkable mashup that “somehow manages to become a cohesive, thought-provoking whole . . . There’s no way a novel with this many moving parts should hold together, but it does, and even readers initially daunted by the jumble will soon be glad to go wherever Parsons takes them” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
“Parsons’s debut is a tour-de-force, a justifiably showy demonstration of the author’s chameleon-like ability to write in several genres all at once, and it emerges as one of the scariest and bleakest tales I can remember.” —Cory Doctorow
The debut novel from Zack Parsons, editor of the Something Awful website and author of My Tank Is Fight!, is a mind-bending journey through time and genres. Beginning in 1874, with a blood-soaked western story of revenge, Liminal States follows a trio of characters through a 1950s noir detective story and twenty-first-century sci-fi horror. Their paths are tragically intertwined—and their choices have far-reaching consequences for the course of American history.
It’s a remarkable mashup that “somehow manages to become a cohesive, thought-provoking whole . . . There’s no way a novel with this many moving parts should hold together, but it does, and even readers initially daunted by the jumble will soon be glad to go wherever Parsons takes them” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
“Parsons’s debut is a tour-de-force, a justifiably showy demonstration of the author’s chameleon-like ability to write in several genres all at once, and it emerges as one of the scariest and bleakest tales I can remember.” —Cory Doctorow
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Reviews for Liminal States
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37 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This is a terrible book. Overly long, portentous, badly written and humorless. ZP does seem to have done a great job with marketing, however, including a puff piece on Boing Boing, which is what convinced me to take a risk on it. There are also dozens of reviews on Amazon saying that the book is a flawless, genre-smashing masterpiece: I am very sceptical about where those reviews came from because Parsons is not even a competent writer . It's rare that I feel ripped off by a book, even when I don't enjoy it that much, but this was an exception.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I do not know how to write an introductory paragraph for my review as to what this book is about. After reading 120 pages, I'm still clueless, except that the portion I read involved two men killing each other again and again because they had stumbled on some sort of evil pool of everlasting life.The writer can describe scenes well, especially pain, suffering, and bloody, gory deaths. I don't know if he can write a likable character, because none of them were that I read about. Mostly, I didn't mind them dying again and again because they were so unlikable, but it became boring. I didn't get to the change in the plot. I did dip into the book several places further on, reading the ending, and it was all still a confusion of no-sense. Obviously, this is not a book for me, although, mystifyingly enough, my daughter really did like it and recommended it to me. So, if you like disjointed thoughts, well described bloody and depressing horror, and very obscure plots, this may be the book for you.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The sum is much greater than the individual parts which are a crap western, a so-so noir detective story and an OK sci-fi - all threaded with a horror story. The idea bringing them all together is however fantastic and elevates the book far above its constituent parts.