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Chargement... In The Yaddith Timepar Ann K. Schwader
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I quite enjoyed Ann K. Schwader's In the Yaddith Time. To be honest, it was a little too scientifiction and not enough antient Puritanical horror for my personal predilections, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's billed as "A 36 sonnet narrative sequence inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s famous 'Fungi From Yuggoth' sonnet cycle, combining Cthulhu Mythos horror and science fiction in a haunting -- and haunted -- journey from Mars to the farthest reaches of our universe and its ultimate fate." With that description I was of course intrigued, given my love for Fungi. The basic plot is that astronauts find a trapped Cthulhu Mythos deity on Mars, so of course they set it free. I was impressed at Schwader's ability to stick to strict sonnet form while at the same time not making the writing seem forced; this is something few weird authors since Lovecraft seem to be able to manage, and only Lovecraft succeeds in his best works like Fungi. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The inclusion of 36 sonnets is a direct nod to Fungi from Yuggoth (BTW some day Hippocampus Press is publishing an annotated Fungi from Yuggoth; can't wait for that!). She uses Shakespeare's model of 14 lines of iambic pentameter. I counted three different rhyme schemes:
ababcdcdefefgg
abbacddceffegg
abbacddcefgfge
One thing that is very difficult is to avoid a dog trot kind of feel to iambic pentameter; Ms. Schwader is too skilled to fall into that trap. In fact these poems work better when read aloud (mind you I felt a little goofy reading poetry to myself, but I got over it). The sonnet cycle is really one long telling of the story of mankind's demise as humans are enticed beyond the boundaries of what we know. I didn't really have a favorite although I liked some of the imagery:
from [The Will of Yaddith]
As Earth's first masters harnessed shoggoth-kind
to raise aquatic citadels of stone
As I see it, this book's appeal is probably limited to those familiar with Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth and are fans of poetry, a pretty select audience! Read in a single setting (preferably aloud) they tell a compelling story. I enjoyed the experience well enough but I doubt I'll be pulling this book out for another read, at least not until I've read the Hippocampus Yuggoth book when it comes out. The 3 stars are because I much prefer prose fiction to poetry, and because the book is so short. If you want to sample Ms. Schwader's prose buy Strange Stars and Alien Shadows. That will keep you up at night reading! ( )