The Kitschies — 132 книги

2009: победитель в номинации "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"What Mr. Miéville has done is simply this: take a simple creative idea - the stuff of any magazine story or Creative Writing 101 - and make it into a mind-bogglingly delicious novel. And the intricate plot? The empathetic character? The philosophical progression? He does those as extras. Mr. Miéville casually includes what most authors strive, and fail, to achieve. That's crossing the line from skill to genius."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:10

2009: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Best Served Cold is packed with engaging characters that pin the reader from the first page and refuse to let go. Through their dark hours and their (brief) moments of brilliant triumph, Monzcarro, Shivers and Cosca are funny, fascinating, inspiring and painfully, wonderfully human. Although it is a treat for the reader to explore Mr. Abercrombie's world, the real pleasure is in the company we get to keep while doing so."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:10

2009: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Dance, carp, match-make, introspection, ZOMBIE, dance, explore countryside, match-make, ZOMBIE. Already oft-imitated but never equalled, this is a naughty little spin on a Big Book that has raised the profile of the publisher, zombies and, arguably, genre as a whole."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:09

2009: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Mr. Grossman's well-orchestrated mixture of Donna Tartt's The Secret History and C.S. Lewis' Narnia is a fascinating and unusual read. This year's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Magicians is carefully-crafted and excellently well-written - a breakout hit that appealed genre and non-genre fans alike. It is an unusual, mature look at magic and its practitioners."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:08

2009: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Beautiful, infinitely re-readable, sensitive and fun - one of those books that blurs the boundaries. Or, to be more precise, it is science fiction, but for the sake of sanity and sales, no bookstore will shelve it as such. Even as a physical object, this is a book that both stretches and defies traditional definitions of the form."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:08

2010: победитель в номинации "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"A modern noir set in Johannesburg, featuring a black, female, ex-journalist, ex-junky, ex-convict narrator, a daemon-y sloth clinging to her shoulders, Lauren Beukes' impressive sophomore novel turns what could have been a ridiculous Raymond Chandler-meets-Phillip Pullman pastiche into a deep and thoughtful examination of guilt and redemption in the 21st century."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:12

2010: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Just because a book has a bunch of machine-gun-toting schoolkids on the front doesn't mean you shouldn't take it seriously. As a genre, are we selling ourselves short? Or is it better that the subtle anti-war sentiments of Mr. Andrews' book sneak in under the radar, disguised by the dark glamour that's widely acknowledged to be more marketable to genre readers? Children's Crusade raises these questions - and more - proving why it belongs on this list."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:23

2010: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"China Miéville's protean approach to genre means he's never met a category he didn't explode with all the calculated mischievousness of a teenager smoking under the principal's window during school hours. Nowhere is this more evident than the absurdist comedy of Kraken."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:17

2010: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"From financial magnate to military genius to social reformer, Basso is unstoppable. However, he makes a single mistake - a solitary episode in which his emotions overrule his coolly logical disposition - and that haunts him for the entirety of his life.The Folding Knife is a compact epic - the rise and fall of a compelling figure, delivered in Parker's mesmerizing, no-frills style. It introduces relativity to a genre of absolutes, makes finance interesting and leaves the reader with plenty to argue in the pub."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:23

2010: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Aurorarama rejuvenates an entire subgenre, adding creativity and accuracy (historical and, more importantly, tonal) to a field that risks being defined solely by corsets and airships. Beyond its importance in legitimizing steampunk, Aurorarama is a sparkling read - breathing, human characters wandering amok in one of the most captivating cities in fiction."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:18

2010: победитель в номинации "Золотое щупальце" (лучший дебют)

"Despite its short length, King Maker packs in a sprawling cast of characters and the story comes out in a staccato style that won't be for every reader. It is, however, a work of great and unique ambition, merging an ancient mythos with a modern reality. More importantly, Mr. Broaddus balances them well. He uses elements of the fantastic to support a story about a young man's struggles to survive and succeed, not the other way around."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:23

2010: победитель в номинации "Черное щупальце" (выбор жюри)

"If Memory sounds eye-bleedingly depressing - well, it is. It is also one of the most exceptional novels we've ever read, featuring the self-destructive protagonist and fatalistic themes of the best noirs bound up in the deeply moving story of a damanged man's desperate scramble after something he's lost forever."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:27

2011: победитель в номинации "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)
номинант на "Чернильное щупальце" (оформление обложки) — Jim Kay

"The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:36

2011: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:38

2011: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:43

2011: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"Women are dying in their millions. Some blame scientists, some see the hand of God, some see human arrogance reaping the punishment it deserves. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times: as her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her towards the ultimate act of heroism. If the human race is to survive, it is up to her."

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:46

2011: номинант на "Красное щупальце" (лучший роман)

"In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden: Vigilante. Joe's quest to find the man takes him across the world, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books is fiction?"
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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:47

2011: победитель в номинации "Золотое щупальце" (лучший дебют)

"Nyx is a former government assassin who makes a living cutting off heads for cash. But when a dubious deal between her government and an alien gene pirate goes bad, Nyx's ugly past makes her the top pick for a covert recovery. The head they want her to bring home could end the war - but at what price?"

sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:48

2011: номинант на "Золотое щупальце" (лучший дебют)

"Drothe has been a member of the Kin for years, rubbing elbows with thieves and murderers in the employ of a crime lord while smuggling relics on the side. But when an ancient book falls into his hands, Drothe finds himself in possession of a relic capable of bringing down emperors - a relic everyone in the underworld would kill to obtain."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:49

2011: номинант на "Золотое щупальце" (лучший дебют)

"In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. At the heart of the story is the tangled relationship between two young magicians, Celia, the enchanter's daughter, and Marco, the sorcerer's apprentice."

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sartreuse 18 февраля 2015 г., 12:49