True Monsters (The Shepherds Wolf Book 1)
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However all of the science I refer to in the novel is actually more that 5 years old I think I should write a preface to the novel, explaining how low myostatin inhibitors are an actual genetic disorder, people can grow Anthrax or even their own fat cells in their garage, how disease vectors work, the homeless Right to Sleep movement, and a myriad of topics in my novel that aren't made up. Unfortunately I wrote this book, so I think it's great. The novel includes a series of dazzling action sequences and hugely clever jokes; for instance, the sequence where Waterhouse and Alan Turing spend several pages knocking back and forth equations which are used to calculate the probability of the chain coming off Turing's bike.
Stephenson repeated the dazzling tricks of Crytonomicon with The Baroque Trilogy, three massive tomes telling the story of the Royal Society, the beginning of science and the formation of the modern world through the creation of financial debt instruments in these books, it is the invention of debt that allows England to defeat France - I wonder what Stephenson makes of that idea now. But read Cryptonomicon first. Even those who don't like him - who consider him the white sliced bread of the modern novel - have to acknowledge King's mastery of longform storytelling, and the appeal of this enormous volume is that of observing a true narrative watchmaker at work.
King takes a tired old theme - what if you could go back in time and stop something awful happening? It counts as a weird history, too, because it takes characters who have become two-dimensional myths - specifically, Lee Harvey Oswald - and makes them breathe again through the context of a modern narrator. It's one thing to take a fictional character and place him or her inside a real history; it's quite another to take a set of other people's fictional characters and then place them within a world that combines real history with the cultural artefacts of a civilisation.
Alan Moore, the dark clown prince of comics, took Wilhelmina Murray married name: Mina Harker from Dracula and hooked her up with Doctor Jekyll, Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, the Invisible Man and Orlando among others and, in a series of comics which become ever more elaborate and intricate, propels them through worlds of imagination that take their internal logic from the myths and stories of the last years.
My personal favourite is The Black Dossier, which finds Harker, Quartermain and Orlando on the run from Bulldog Drummond and James Bond, who themselves work for a sinister organisation which arose from the ashes of Ingsoc and is run by old boys from Billy Bunter's Greyfriars. It's as mad and wonderful as it sounds. Not entirely "weird", although plenty of odd stuff happens, but here because it describes a past in such a resolutely modern way that the vanished worlds come alive again, brightly and brilliantly I could just as easily have chosen Wolf Hall.
It is set in in Nagasaki Harbour, where the island of Dejima is joined by a gate to the mainland and is the only connection between Japan and the outside world. The Dutch East India Company holds the trading rights on the island, and it sends along a new employee, Jacob de Zoet, a young clerk from the Netherlands who falls for the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor. An extraordinary achievement of research and style, this is a book which describes a moment and a place in history that are so surpassingly odd as to be distinctly weird.
Unsurprisingly, given the binary good vs evil narrative of the second world war, "what if? Douglas Archer a name which resounds with both Bader and Agincourt is a homicide detective working in Nazi-occupied Britain, who uncovers a London murder case which, inevitably, leads to the upper reaches of the Nazi occupation government. I read it as a teenager, and was horrorstruck by it.
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