Victor LaValle
Autor de The Ballad of Black Tom
Sobre El Autor
Victor D. LaValle is an assistant professor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Créditos de la imagen: Victor LaValle
Series
Obras de Victor LaValle
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers (2019) — Editor — 418 copias
Reimagining Lovecraft: Four Tor.com Novellas: (The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellit Boe, Hammers on Bone,… (2017) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds 2 copias
The Best of Richard Matheson 2 copias
The Sundial 2 copias
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft 2 copias
Spectral Evidence {short story} 1 copia
Hellraiser: Bestiary (#1-6) 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contribuidor — 182 copias
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Contribuidor — 88 copias
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contribuidor — 57 copias
Sunspot Jungle: The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2018) — Contribuidor — 35 copias
Freud's Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings (2010) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Chiral Mad 5 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972-02-03
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Educación
- Columbia University (MFA)
Cornell University - Relaciones
- Raboteau, Emily (wife)
- Premios y honores
- Whiting Writers' Award (2004)
Miembros
Debates
Big Machine by Victor LaValle en African/African American Literature (Febrero 2013)
Reseñas
Listas
Diverse Horror (3)
SFFKit 2018 (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 45
- También por
- 32
- Miembros
- 6,019
- Popularidad
- #4,091
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 337
- ISBNs
- 93
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 10
After the reveal about what's in the chest, we completely lose the thread of Adelaide's story that is committed to facing the harsh conditions. Noting that she has just a bag of potatoes, a couple jars of preserves, and $5 to make it through the winter, the author then completely drops this line of the plot and allows her to survive for what appears to be several more weeks or months without doing any work or improvement on her homestead, let alone setting aside stores or preparing for spring planting. The novel shifts to other players around the area and their stories--not always successfully. Most of the side characters were not very well developed and their motivations were unclear in a lot of cases.
Finally, I still can't figure out what the point of the creature was. Much of the endgame plot felt engineered to getting us to that final chapter, which was a lovely utopian fantasy and cinched things up nicely. I don't read/watch enough horror to really know the tropes of the genre, but I tend to expect that the reveal will clarify some larger thematic point or illuminate a cultural fear. But that didn't really happen here. The best I can do is that the townspeople's hatred of the unknown paradoxically creates a situation in which outcasts can thrive and come into their own--but until the creature started rampaging, the townspeople actually seemed quite nice and accepting, so it kind of falls apart when I look at it too hard. A bit of a wasted opportunity.… (más)