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Simon & Schuster, UK, 2000 |
Malignos
Simon & Schuster, UK, 2000
'In Malignos, we once more find the type of star-crossed
lovers whom Calder employs so fruitfully. Richard Pike, human
warrior and demon-slayer in a far-future world gone rotten with
biological monstrosities, has fallen in love with a turncoat female
demon named Gala. When his lover's mind is stolen away by her
vengeful subterranean kindred, Pike must journey to the literal
centre of the wormy earth to find a cure for her condition. His
journey is lurid, gripping, and emotionally wrenching. As if Clark
Ashton Smith had collaborated with William Hope Hodgson, this book
evokes a kind of lusty angst and frenetic ennui that is, ultimately,
refreshingly upbeat.'
Asimov's
'His voice remains as distinctive as ever: wryly mordant,
darkly lyrical, and laced with an authentic fin de siècle decadence
… Endlessly inventive, bitingly comic and affectingly tragic, its
ultimate revelation turning upon a genuine evocation of sense of
wonder, this story of a Dying Earth and the quest of a melancholy
champion is remade by Calder into something genuinely strange and
original.'
Interzone
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