{"id":324,"date":"2018-10-07T20:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2022-08-07T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T14:38:19","slug":"nonfiction-blurbs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/nonfiction\/nonfiction-blurbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A list of blurbs<\/a>* written by Joe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cover:<\/strong><\/td>\nTitle & author:<\/strong><\/td>\nBlurb:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nAck-Ack Macaque (The complete trilogy)
\nGareth L. Powell
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9781781086056<\/td>\n		\u201cArguably the greatest title of all time.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Android’s Dream
\nJohn Scalzi<\/strong>
\nPaperback
\nISBN: 9781250174758<\/td>\n		\u201cThe most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nBehind Her Eyes
\nSarah Pinsborough
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9781250111173<\/td>\n		\u201cA masterfully engineered thriller that brings to mind Hitchcock at his most uncanny and Rendell at her most relentless. Lean and mean, dark and disturbing, this is the kind of novel that takes over your life. Sarah Pinsborough slays.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nCursed Words, The Whole Damn Thing
\nCharles Soule & Ryan Browne<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781534322110<\/td>\n		Terrific, terrific comic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nColder
\nPaul Tobin,\u00a0 Juan Ferreyre, Nate Piekos<\/strong>
\nPaperback, omnibus
\nISBN: 9781506704791<\/td>\n		“Colder is a potent cocktail of giddy madness, baroque cruelty, and hallucinatory grotesques… pour yourself a tall icy glass.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Collapsing Empire
\nJohn Scalzi
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9780765388889<\/td>\n		\u201cJohn Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nDestroyer
\nVictor LaValle
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9781684150557<\/td>\n		\u201cVictor LaValle tells stories that need to be told.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Diary Thief (aka Raped Diaries)
\nKatherine Glover
\n<\/strong>Chapbook<\/td>\n		“As chilling a debut as you are likely to read anywhere.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nDisappearance At Devil\u2019s Rock
\nPaul Tremblay
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9781785653643<\/td>\n		\u201cExquisite, empathic horror of the highest quality.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe End of all Things
\nJohn Scalzi
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9781447290506<\/td>\n		\u201cThe most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nForgotten Girl
\nRio Youers
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9781250072399<\/td>\n		\u201cA supernatural thriller that thunders along at Mach 5 from the first page to the last. Written with a brutal lyricism, a savage wit, and a killer instinct for suspence, it\u2019s a work that marks out Rio Youers as a big star.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nFuzzy Nation
\nJohn Scalzi<\/strong>
\nPaperback
\nISBN: 9781250174642<\/td>\n		\u201cThe most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nHap and Leonard, Blood and Lemonade
\nJoe R. Lansdale
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9781616962531<\/td>\n		\u201cA true American original.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nHead On
\nJohn Scalzi
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\n<\/strong>ISBN: 9781509835102<\/td>\n		\u201cThe most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nHer Every Fear
\nPeter Swanson<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN:9780062427021<\/td>\n		“Like a stiletto in the ribs.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/td>\nInsomnia
\nSarah Pinborough<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9780062856845<\/td>\n		“The twistiest and most gripping thriller since Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, an absolute must-read for suspense fans.”<\/p>\n

Put this book on your radar: Sarah Pinborough’s Insomnia is the twistiest and most gripping thriller since Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, an absolute must-read for suspense fans. The pages fly and the revelations deliver shock after shock. Don’t sleep on this one – it’s Sarah Pinborough’s best yet.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Kaiju Preservation Society
\nJohn Scalzi<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9780765389121<\/td>\n		“John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Last House on Needless Street
\nCatriona Ward<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781788166164<\/td>\n		‘A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense. I was enthralled’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Living Dead
\nGeorge A. Romero, Daniel Kraus<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781781633919<\/td>\n		‘A horror landmark.’<\/p>\n

‘A work of gory genius marked by all of Romero’s trademark wit, humanity, and merciless social observation.’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Monster of Elendhaven
\nJennifer Giesbrecht
\n<\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9781250225689<\/td>\n		“A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Next Time I Die
\nJason Starr<\/strong>
\nPaperback
\nISBN: 9781789099515<\/td>\n		“Paranoid noir… playing its own one-of-a-king game.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nOrdinary Monsters
\nM.J. Miro<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781250833662<\/td>\n		“Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. be warned… once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you’ll never want to leave.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nPulp
\nEd Brubaker, Sean Phillips<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781534316447<\/td>\n		“A new title from the sharpshooters behind FATALE and CRIMINAL is reason enough to go on living.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nReckless
\nEd Brubaker, Sean Phillips<\/strong>
\nHardcover
\nISBN: 9781534318519<\/td>\n		“Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are doing the best work of their lives right now and RECKLESS is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest hitting Richard Stark stories. This comes at youas fast as Steve McQueen in a souped up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. You gotta have it.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nRedshirts
\nJohn Scalzi
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9780765316998<\/td>\n		\u201cRedshirts is (a) ruin-your-underwear funny, (b) a mind-bender sure to Philip K. Dick you over, and (c) absurdly rich in ideas and feeling. John Scalzi sets his imagination to STUN and scores a direct hit. Read on and prosper.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nSea of Rust
\nC. Robert Cargill
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 9780062405838<\/td>\n		\u201cA forty-megaton cruise missile of a novel\u2026. Visceral, relentless, breathtaking.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nSurvivors Club #1
\nLauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly<\/strong>
\nSingle issue comic<\/td>\n		“Brainy, ambitious and delightfully scary, SURVIVORS’ CLUB is a throwback to books like THE SANDMAN and HELLBLAZER that made Vertigo a legend.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nSurvivors Club
\nLauren Beukes, Dale Halvorsen, Ryan Kelly<\/strong>
\nPaperback
\nISBN: 9781401265540<\/td>\n		“Brainy, ambitious and delightfully scary.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nWhy Horror Seduces
\nMathias Clasen
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Paperback
\nISBN: 9780190666514<\/td>\n		\u201cOver the course of thirteen brilliantly argued chapters, Mathias Clasen uses the sharp edge of evolutionary psychology to skin the horror genre alive and reveal the wet red tendons twitching under the surface.\u00a0Why Horror Seduces<\/em>\u00a0is sure to provoke admiration, argument, debate, and delight among fans and creators. An essential read for anyone who cares about terrifying fiction.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nThe Woman in the Room
\nA.J. Finn
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Hardcover
\nISBN: 978-0062678416<\/td>\n		\u201cCompelling, wrenching, and gasp-for-breath exciting\u2014I was blown away.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/a>*Blurb<\/strong>= A\u00a0brief<\/span>\u00a0testimonial<\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0excerpt<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0review,<\/span>\u00a0as\u00a0on\u00a0a\u00a0book<\/span>\u00a0jacket.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A list of blurbs* written by Joe: Cover: Title & author: Blurb: Ack-Ack Macaque (The complete trilogy) Gareth L. Powell Paperback ISBN: 9781781086056 \u201cArguably the greatest title of all time.\u201d The Android’s Dream John Scalzi Paperback ISBN: 9781250174758 \u201cThe most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today.\u201d Behind Her Eyes Sarah Pinsborough Hardcover ISBN: 9781250111173 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":313,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/4903"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joehill.nl\/TheCollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}