Vellum
by Hal Duncan · first published 2006
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An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description.VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURSIt's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum--the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch.The Vellum, w
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I'm glad you're finding works you enjoy among the classics! I have a long fondness for Bradbury, Shelley, Conan Doyle, etc., but they didn't write, oh, Hal Duncan's VELLUM, or Christopher Barzak's THE LOVE WE SHARE WITHOUT KNOWING, or Silvia Moreno-Garcia's SIGNAL TO NOISE---I don't think they could have been written before the last decade or so, and I don't see that they…
on “The collective insanity of the publishing industry” ↗What kind of unique book is that? (The topmost book on the pile beside my bed being Vellum by Hal Duncan has nothing at all to do with the question ;)
on “Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies” ↗…(First three books of an ongoing series; rereads.) - Babylon Babies, by Maurice Dantec. This doesn't really count, since I gave up halfway through--the translation is horrible. I'm currently reading Vellum, by Hal Duncan. I have, I think, about 5-6 more books on my to-read pile at the moment, and I could triple that with a visit to the bookstore. (I'm avoiding visiting the bookstore because my budget…
on “You’re a developer, so why do you work for someone else?” ↗