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Garry Kilworth

Auteur de Highlander

174+ oeuvres 2,371 utilisateurs 56 critiques 3 Favoris

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Œuvres de Garry Kilworth

Highlander (1986) 136 exemplaires
Attica (2006) 107 exemplaires
Hunter's Moon (1989) 96 exemplaires
Thunder Oak (1997) 95 exemplaires
House of Tribes (1995) 79 exemplaires
Knight's Dawn (2001) 72 exemplaires
Angel (1993) 70 exemplaires
Castle Storm (1998) 69 exemplaires
The Night of Kadar (1978) 66 exemplaires
La compagnie des fées (1996) 60 exemplaires
In Solitary (1977) 59 exemplaires
Spiggot's Quest (2002) 57 exemplaires
Le Manteau des étoiles (1996) 54 exemplaires
Windjammer Run (1999) 54 exemplaires
Captifs de la cité de Glace (1984) 52 exemplaires
Split Second (1979) 52 exemplaires
Wizard's Funeral (2002) 52 exemplaires
Les Ramages de la douleur (1984) 45 exemplaires
Roche-Nuée (1988) 43 exemplaires
Midnight's Sun (1992) 43 exemplaires
Frost Dancers (1992) 41 exemplaires
Gaslight Geezers (2001) 38 exemplaires
The Devil's Own (1997) 36 exemplaires
The Rain Ghost (1989) 36 exemplaires
Vampire Voles (2002) 32 exemplaires
Gemini God (1981) 31 exemplaires
Abandonati (1988) 30 exemplaires
The Ragthorn (1991) 30 exemplaires
Scabbard's Song (2003) 30 exemplaires
The Valley of Death (1998) 29 exemplaires
Le Temps des Guerriers (1997) 29 exemplaires
Attack on the Redan (2003) 26 exemplaires
The Electric Kid (1994) 25 exemplaires
Soldiers in the Mist (1999) 25 exemplaires
The Winter Soldiers (2002) 23 exemplaires
Mallmoc's Castle (2003) 23 exemplaires
La Terre de Brumes (1998) 21 exemplaires
Archangel (1994) 21 exemplaires
Witchwater Country (1986) 20 exemplaires
In the Country of Tattooed Men (1985) 19 exemplaires
Jigsaw (2007) 18 exemplaires
Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales (2006) 17 exemplaires
The Bronte Girls (1995) 17 exemplaires
Boggart and Fen (2004) 16 exemplaires
In the Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave (1989) 14 exemplaires
Rogue Officer (2007) 14 exemplaires
Heastward Ho! (2003) 14 exemplaires
The Hundred-Towered City (2008) 13 exemplaires
Spiral Winds (1987) 12 exemplaires
Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks (1993) 12 exemplaires
The Lantern Fox (1998) 11 exemplaires
Kiwi Wars (2008) 9 exemplaires
Brothers of the Blade (2004) 9 exemplaires
Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands (1993) 9 exemplaires
The Drowners (1992) 8 exemplaires
Tales From The Fragrant Harbour (2010) 7 exemplaires
The Ragged School (1996) 7 exemplaires
Dragoons, Ensign Early, Book 1 (2011) 6 exemplaires
Cybercats (1996) 6 exemplaires
The Sculptor (1992) 6 exemplaires
Die Engel: Roman (2010) 6 exemplaires
The Silver Claw (2005) 5 exemplaires
The Fabulous Beast (2013) 5 exemplaires
The Gargoyle (All Aboard) (1997) 5 exemplaires
The Third Dragon (1991) 5 exemplaires
Monster School (Comix: 12) (2002) 5 exemplaires
Shadow-hawk (1999) 5 exemplaires
Elemetal Tales (2019) 4 exemplaires
Murderers Walk [short fiction] (1987) 3 exemplaires
Navigator Fiction Yr 4/P5: Sorted (2002) 3 exemplaires
Roche-Nuée (1988) 3 exemplaires
The Phantom Piper (1995) 3 exemplaires
Masterpiece 3 exemplaires
La legge dei Soal 2 exemplaires
the Street (1988) 2 exemplaires
Spiral winds [short fiction] (1985) 2 exemplaires
Nightdancer (2002) 2 exemplaires
The Raiders (1996) 2 exemplaires
Store Wars 2 exemplaires
The Silver Collar 2 exemplaires
Mirrors 2 exemplaires
The oystercatcher's cry (2000) 2 exemplaires
The Saffron Fields (1994) 2 exemplaires
The Voyage of the Vigilance (1988) 2 exemplaires
The Iron Wire (2014) 2 exemplaires
The Dissemblers [short story] (1982) 2 exemplaires
Networks (1990) 2 exemplaires
Dop*elgan*er [short fiction] (1987) 2 exemplaires
The men's room [short fiction] (1987) 2 exemplaires
Lord of the Dance [short story] (1980) 2 exemplaires
Let's Go to Golgotha! (1974) 2 exemplaires
Sir Cumference (1998) 1 exemplaire
Theater of Timesmiths 1 exemplaire
In Solitary 1 exemplaire
The Gargoyle (Mammoth reads) (1997) 1 exemplaire
The Gogamagog Circus (2023) 1 exemplaire
The Wild Hunt (2022) 1 exemplaire
Trivial Tales 1 exemplaire
The Council Of Beasts 1 exemplaire
Fossils 1 exemplaire
Scarlet Fever [short story] (1982) 1 exemplaire
Usurper [short story] (1989) 1 exemplaire
1948 [short story] (1993) 1 exemplaire
Blind Windows [novelette] (1982) 1 exemplaire
The Rose Bush [short story] (1980) 1 exemplaire
The Invisible Foe [short story] (1982) 1 exemplaire
Oubliette [short story] (1993) 1 exemplaire
Giant [short story] (1993) 1 exemplaire
God's Cold Lips [short story] (1979) 1 exemplaire
Almost Heaven [short story] (1982) 1 exemplaire
The Drummer Boy (1998) 1 exemplaire
Alles In Ordnung 1 exemplaire
White Noise 1 exemplaire
Dogfaerie 1 exemplaire
Hobblythick Lane [short story] (1986) 1 exemplaire
Beyond Byzantium [short story] (1988) 1 exemplaire
Phoenix Man (2011) 1 exemplaire
Out Back 1 exemplaire
Exploding Sparrows 1 exemplaire
Moby Jack 1 exemplaire
The Megowl 1 exemplaire
Paper Moon 1 exemplaire
Oracle Bones 1 exemplaire
My Lady Lygia 1 exemplaire
The Wall [short story] (1988) 1 exemplaire
Hunter's Hall 1 exemplaire
The Frog Chauffeur 1 exemplaire
Cherub 1 exemplaire
Black Drongo 1 exemplaire
The Stray 1 exemplaire
Westward Ho 1 exemplaire
Nerves of Steel [short story] (1994) 1 exemplaire
X-Calibre [short story] (1990) 1 exemplaire

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Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (1987) — Contributeur — 60 exemplaires
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Tarot Tales (1989) — Contributeur — 60 exemplaires
We Think, Therefore We Are (2009) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
The Fifth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1987) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Haunting Christmas Tales: An Anthology (1630) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
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The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
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New Worlds 4 (1994) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Beyond the Stars (Tales of Adventure in Time and Space) (1983) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
Not the Only Planet: Science Fiction Travel Stories (1998) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
Arrows of Eros (1989) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Horses! (1994) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1987) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
Other Edens 2 (1988) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Touch Wood (1993) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories (Young Oxford Books) (2001) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Walls of Fear (1990) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Thirteen More Tales of Horror (1994) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Tales in Time (1997) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Heaven Sent: 18 Glorious Tales of the Angels (1995) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
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Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Contributeur, quelques éditions13 exemplaires
Requiems for the Departed (2010) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Infinity Plus One (2001) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
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Postscripts Magazine, Issue 3 (2006) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
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A story of wolves living in northern forest and tundra. From the wolves’ viewpoint, but unlike any other book I’ve ever read about wolves. I was fairly riveted, but it took so long to read because of eye strain, and some technical issues (see below). I had to take breaks and read easier books or graphic novels here and there instead. The main character is a wolf who doesn’t really fit in well, to his strictly-ordered pack. Thinking outside the regimented norm is dangerous when survival is at issue. As he finds out even more keenly when ousted from the pack and living on his own. Barely survives at times, thrives in others. Has encounters with strange wolves, a fierce weasel, ravens and half-wild dogs. Travels long distances, faces down a rival, and meets a female unlike any he’s known back home. Then he starts a family but almost looses them, gets captured by humans, narrowly escapes but in a strange set of circumstances ends up in an uneasy partnership with a human in the wilderness. (Other wolves never quite believe him when he tells about this later on). He suffers greatly travelling to try and find his family again, not sure if they’re even alive. And in the end encounters other wolves with a risky, death-wish agenda: to kill as many humans as possible, in retaliation for what mankind has done to all animals. Led by his old rival. When they finally meet, he discovers they have more in common now, and form an uneasy truce- if they can survive it.

So much more than I can mention here! The story had a deeply-felt sense of culture among the wolves- the meaning of their songs (howls), the legends and stories shared (their own version of Red Riding Hood, Three Little Pigs, etc). A sense of the very landscape being alive. The inter-relationship with other wildlife. The keen communication via scent and sound, the shape and feel of the wind, the terrain, etc felt so vivid at times. There was also a very subtle but profound examination through the story, of what a complete paradigm shift in how a family approaches things can occur, and how difficult that is to navigate. I feel like I’m not quite stating that clearly, but it’s the best I can do now.

I've seen other readers state that this book has inaccuracies in how it depicts wolf behavior and pack structure, but I enjoyed it regardless. Maybe it helps if you don't know too much.
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jeane | Mar 12, 2024 |
Fun adventure story, clearly for younger readers but with plenty of depth and interesting details.
 
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mutantpudding | 9 autres critiques | Dec 26, 2021 |
Commended for the Carnegie Medal. [Not clear what 'commended' means, or whether it applies to the author or the book.] Orig. published by Methuen.
 
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ME_Dictionary | Mar 20, 2020 |
Skelter is a blue mountain hare from the highlands. He lives a relatively good life for a wild hare, even though predators and other dangers must be constantly avoided- not far into the book there is a bloody scene of a deer dying, which firmly introduces the reader to the fact this story doesn't shy away from death. Lots of animals die. Even main characters. Just when I was beginning to like them. Well, Skelter is looking forward to the upcoming mating season, when he will box with other hares to earn his right to a female. But men sweep across the fields catching wild hares to use for coursing their greyhounds. Skelters is shut in a cage, transported to the coursing field, has to run for his life. He narrowly escapes and finds himself in the lowlands, a strange countryside very different from the highland slopes he used to live on.

Skelter has to find ways to adapt in the new land. He takes up with some rabbits for a while, then tries to live among some lowland field hares. He becomes companionable with some females and wards off rival males. He has to face prejudices and superstitions galore- in this story, the differences between rabbits and hares are constantly pointed out, hares scorning the smaller rabbits' company. Skelter also lives near a badger's sett, gets to know a few otters and a short-tempered hedgehog. There are foxes that skulk across the fields, farmer's dogs that let them in on what humans are doing, and many other animals in the story. But strangest of all and most threatening is a giant exotic eagle. Through the whole story the eagle is described but never quite identified- the rabbits and hares simply call it a monster- its hunting patterns are different than any other predator they've met, and it threatens them with extinction. Turns out it is a harpy eagle, an exotic pet released when it couldn't be kept. All kinds of implications in that part of the story. The oddest part was that the tower the eagle nested in talked to it. The tower talked. That was a bit much.

Well anyway Skelter the hare goes out on this insane quest to find the harpy eagle's hideout, learn more about it in case it can help them deal with the predator. And I won't tell you more about that part of the story- you'd have to read it. I can see why this book has been compared to Watership Down. Lagomorph leaving its homeland under duress, searching for a way to find a safe new home. It even gives a few serious nods to the other book.... But this isn't as deep a story. Details of the highland countryside are nice, but later such depictions of nature are less frequent as the story has more action. The characterization isn't nearly as good. There were some inconsistencies in the story that bothered me- a hare feeling indifferent to one thing, then hating it later on with no real explanation for the change in attitude for example... Also a few odd spellings...

There were other things that seemed not-so-well thought out. The mythology and culture of the rabbits and hares just had too much going on. In the beginning of the story there was an info dump on hare beliefs- something like a hell full of tempters that dead hare spirits pass through while trying to reach heaven- and I was ready to buy that, to accept it as part of the story. But there’s also ghost-hares that guide the living, hare spirits that get turned into flowers, racial memories that some of the animals access when in a kind of trance (like in Nop’s Trials). In addition, the hares and rabbits have tons of superstitions including human-made objects seen as good luck items.... It was just a lot of various belief systems and mythologies going on when I would have rather sunk deeply into just one.

It was nice that things were shown solidly from the animal perspective. They observe a murder that happens on a farm, but don’t know what's going on, although the reader is able to piece it together. They see a new feature arrive on the land, and something described as a "rigid bird" which I thought was an albatross (for a few pages). All the animals speak, although in different languages and dialects, and humans are the ones who make meaningless, superfluous sounds so the animals assume they communicate by gesture only.

I almost feel sorry to give this book a low rating, but I really had to force myself to finish it in the end. There's an overly dramatic chase scene and a last-minute encounter with the harpy eagle that ends with unexpected suddenness. I have to say the way the author worked that final encounter into the story was quite clever. I feel like I’ve said quite a lot now, especially for a book that in the end, I didn’t care for that much. If you look on Goodreads, there’s someone who really goes on and on about it.

from the Dogear Diary
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jeane | 1 autre critique | May 9, 2018 |

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