Illuminations: Stories

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While this story still had his elements of sci-fi and general what-the-fuck-is-going-on -ness, it was definitely less chaotic and intellectual than his normal writing style. This was witty, character-driven, and a sure start to a horror novel that I would push everything in my life away to read. Sometimes Moore has a clever idea, and milks it to its logical conclusion, but the result is predictable. I originally gave this 2 stars, because whatever I thought of the rest of the collection, I thought the ghost story was pretty good, the hidden creature one had a cool idea, and that the first story was decent and well-written, even if it wasn't really my speed.

Both mind-expanding and cosmic while utterly rooted in our urban reality' NEIL GAIMAN 'One of the great fiction minds of his generation' ROLLING STONE In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work and features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author and legendary creator of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, each taking us deeper into the fantastical underside of reality.I loved this one the most given it was quick, it was cerebral, and it brought that beautiful sexual undertone that Moore has to the surface, complete with a cinnamon-roll Jez.

ILLUMINATIONS - Five Stars - Alan Moore does nostalgia and its impact on our future selves really well. What can we uncover, Moore wants us to ask, when we examine the hidden underworld of the American comics industry, zooming in on each detail with the same uncomfortable discernment Watchmen brings to bear on the conventions of silver age comics? It’s a fantasy that takes place in a brothel in a mythical city, where (SPOILER WARNING) an imprisoned concubine escapes by impersonating their free lover, leaving the lover in their place. Alan Moore has a way of weaving medical horrors grounded in Sci-Fi into everyday life in a way that is disturbing and completely unforgettable. In addition to an often dangerous undercurrent, another theme is the notion that no one can be trusted.Diria que o tom do conto é Moore a purgar as suas frustrações e a vingar-se, com imenso bom humor, sobre o comercialismo da indústria. What We Can Know About Thunderman" es una pieza que debió de haber sido muy catártica para Moore de escribir y aunque es entretenida y ciertas piezas son excelentes sufre de que considero que debió de haber sido como como una novela para acabar con las ideas que son presentadas.

It felt a little obvious to me, and while the sex scene was kind of fun in a blasphemous way, it actually took away from the story for me because it felt a little hammed in there. I loved the ideas of what was happening in this story (different alien lifeforms and whatnot), but I’m not sure I loved it as a Moore story. And at the Last Just to Be Done With Silence: Alan Moore's Waiting For Godot complete with macabre twist, tiresome. I expect people with an emotional investment in superhero culture as it currently stands will find this story mean-spirited and bitter.Hypothetical Lizard” feels very old school sci-fi/fantasy, like if Jack Vance got real horny all of a sudden. I genuinely don't think I'll ever come across a worse example, and I have my entire reading life ahead of me. Illuminations” di Alan Moore è una raccolta di nove racconti che spazia e si muove tra vari generi del Fantastico.

porque aunque soy una persona morbosa y cotilla, su pesadísima forma de narrar, su cansino afán de ajustar cuentas con el género y sus alusiones veladas, seudónimos, y oscuras referencias a escabrosas anécdotas, cansa y aburre ya a las piedras. It’s a fake Beat poem about a one-day pilgrimage across San Francisco – another Alan Moore thematic retread, aping Joyce, having a character wander, doing little but evoking all sorts of tension and mystery based on geolocation alone. Whether it's the mind-blowing timefuckery of "Not Even a Legend," the bizarre bait-and-switch of "A Hypothetical Lizard," or the absolutely bonkers novel-length grossfest of "What We Can Know About Thunderman," even the lesser stories of this are worth reading. Unwaveringly, his argument emerges: the business dehumanises people, drawing them into “an insane alternative reality” akin to the experience of cocaine addiction.And there we come to the asterisk, in that Illuminations does contain eight short stories, but more than half of its page-count is What We Can Know About Thunderman, allegedly a novella. It is impossible, however, to lean into that languid mood, because something dangerous and tightly coiled lies below the surface, waiting. I don't want to say anything else about this one because it's just a really nicely told story about how the past affects the present, and how the present impacts how we see the past. this has some good short stories and some other undefinable stuff for which even the structure can't be described (the long story one about the first femtosecond of the creation of the world, for instance).