As a writer, it’s super nice to know when someone really gets what you’re trying to do. Author Chris Willrich has some supremely nice things to say about King of Shards on twitter, which I’ve unrolled here.
…KING OF SHARDS
Over at Locus, Paula Guran reviews recent horror fiction and has this to say about my recent story, “Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?” in Nightmare:
…“There are a number of the dead
Charles Payseur at Quick Sip Reviews says of my story “Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?” in this month’s Nightmare Magazine: :This is a haunting and slowly-unraveling story about ghosts and harm, hopes and waiting…It’s …
I received some nice reviews of “Love Engine Optimization” recently:
SFRevu says:
“Very good and scary character study and warning. Ends with a nice chill.”
And Strange Shuttle says:
…“Despite having a wholly unlikable protagonist (then again, isn’t
Mercurio D. Rivera informs me that my story “Love Engine Optimization” got a nice write-up in Locus from Rich Horton: “[The story has] a timely central notion: a way of using deep data (with realtime help) to attract …
Tangent Online reviews my story “The Last Novelist” and says,
…Matthew Kressel writes a hauntingly sweet and tragic story in “The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard).” Reuth, the last novelist in the
Quick Sip Reviews has some nice things to say about my story “The Last Novelist” now up at Tor.com.
…This is a story of longing and of looking back. Of decline—in health, in life. And of finding
Publishers Weekly calls Cyber World “outstanding” and they mention a few stories, including my “The Singularity is in Your Hair,” plus stories from E. Lily Yu, Paul Graham Raven, and Madeline Ashby. Happy to see the book getting …
The Reporter Group, the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton, New York, praises King of Shards in their latest review.
…“Kressel does an excellent job in fashioning a fantasy world based on Jewish lore and in creating interesting characters and a
My Nebula Award-nominated story “The Sounds of Old Earth” (originally published in Lightspeed Magazine) was reprinted in the 2015 Nebula Award Showcase, edited by Greg Bear, and is recently reviewed by Pop Matters, who has …
Here’s 30-Second Sci-Fi Book Review giving my Nebula-nominated story “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” their “highest recommendation.” In case you want to watch, the review of my story starts at 3:24. (I love that they use the …
SFSignal has some love for “Demon in Aisle 6,” my story just out in Nightmare Magazine as part of their Mind Meld series, this one on What Makes the Perfect Short Story?
…“One of my very favorite stories
This morning I received this nice review of “Demon in Aisle 6” from Charles Payseur at Quick Sip Reviews:
…“Stories like this wreck me. Just absolutely wreck me. There is an aching beauty and tragedy to this story
Shelf Awareness reviews my debut novel King of Shards and calls it “compelling fantasy” and a “fascinating first novel” and says,
…King of Shards is the first entry of the Worldmender Trilogy, and its use of Hebrew culture and legend
Publishers Weekly reviews King of Shards and has nice things to say. They write:
…“…a robustly imagined fantasy world…Kressel advances his plot briskly through a series of alliances, betrayals, separations, and reunions, and the veiled motives of several of
Yesterday was the book launch day for King of Shards. And while I was busy getting ready for my book release party that evening, I discovered that NPR reviewed King of Shards.
Reviewer Jason Heller says of the book…
The venerable Mercurio D. Rivera informs me that my story “Cameron Rhyder’s Legs,” which appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine in November of 2014 has been given an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction 32nd Annual …
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