Trent Jamieson
Autor de Death Most Definite
Sobre El Autor
Trent Jamieson is an Australian writer. His first short story "Threnody" was published in 1994. His other works includes Slow and Ache, which won the 2005 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and Cracks, which won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story. Day Boy was mostrar más the winner of the 2015 Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy Novel and Best Horror Novel. His novels include Death Most Definite, Managing Death and The Business of Death which are in the Death Works series. He wrote a duology which includes Roil and Night's Engines. Jamieson is a former teacher. He taught at Clarion South Writers Workshop and Queensland University of Technology. He was a magazine editor. And currently he is a bookseller in West End. 03 mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Trent Jamieson
My Brother is God 4 copias
Wind Down 2 copias
Porcelain Salli 2 copias
Carousel 2 copias
Endure 2 copias
Tar Baby 2 copias
Cracks [short story] 2 copias
Tumble 2 copias
Looking Back 2 copias
Always 2 copias
The New Deal [short fiction] 2 copias
Marco's Tooth 1 copia
Small Change 1 copia
The Catling God 1 copia
Downpour 1 copia
Slow and Ache 1 copia
Naked 1 copia
Five Bells 1 copia
Neighbours 1 copia
Threnody 1 copia
Bounty 1 copia
Drift 1 copia
To End Aall 1 copia
Woman In a Quantum Universe 1 copia
Delivery 1 copia
Clockwork 1 copia
Girl in a Black Dress 1 copia
Sisyphus Drinking 1 copia
Will and His Lady Luck 1 copia
Commuter 1 copia
Don't Got No Wwings 1 copia
Anabiosis 1 copia
Persuasion 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 93 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Ocupaciones
- bookseller
teacher - Organizaciones
- Queensland University of Technology
Queensland Writers Centre
Clarion South
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 51
- También por
- 7
- Miembros
- 664
- Popularidad
- #37,985
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 37
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 1
Despite an intriguing opening sentence: "I know something's wrong the moment I see the dead girl standing in the Wintergarden food court.",
the book is not particularly original. The main character is familiar (to quote myself) “We’ve yet another male-less-than-stellar-magic users; thrown in to the thick,” but this time the protag’s got more of an occult power. He’s a psycho pomp (Read: grim reaper) whose family business it is to transition dead souls to the afterlife, while keeping nasty beings called Stirrers from inhabiting the vacant body. The idea of Death as a business (or reaping for your daily bread), has been done before too. (Not the best example; but I love the TV show, “Dead like Me”)
The cinema-ready action of this story is built around what amounts to a decidedly hostile and bloody corporate take-over, which our reluctant hero has got to survive and surmount. The protagonist is no inept, for a change. Steven de Selby is more of the "slacker-suddenly-responsible-to-save-the-world" Sort of guy we’ve seen before. So he’s a bit behind the curve in getting the job done.
The book's world view and what happens in the after-life are a bit drear, and not clearly stated until the end, but the character is redeemable enough that I’m mildly interested to see what may happen to him, and his world, after the conclusion of this book. The next book, Managing Death (Death Works, #2) is available and I might pick it up on the cheap from an Amazon.com seller. But truth be told; I think the real appeal I found in Death most definite, is that it takes place in Brisbane with attendant vernacular. I’ve got friends from the region, so as I read, I heard the dulcet tones of Queensland in my mind’s ears. Sad but true, it seems the accents of my Australian friends may have been more influential in my finishing Death Most Definite, than its story and narrative.
If I do get the next book, I’ll have to thank my friends appropriately; perhaps with a chiko roll...
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