Robert Holdstock (1948–2009)
Författare till Mythago Wood
Om författaren
Foto taget av: Radioflux, 2004
Serier
Verk av Robert Holdstock
Tour of the Universe: The Journey of a Lifetime: The Recorded Diaries of Leio Scott and Caroline Luranski (1980) — Författare — 50 exemplar
Ultimo atto 5 exemplar
Bulman 2: one of our pigeons is missing: a novel from scripts written by Murray Smith (1984) 4 exemplar
Mythago Wood ; & Lavondyss 2 exemplar
The Ragthorn [short story] 2 exemplar
Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus: The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior (2014) 2 exemplar
La forêt des Mythagos : Coffret 4 volumes : Tome 1, La forêt des mythagos ; Tome 2, Lavondyss ; Tome 3, Le… (2004) 2 exemplar
Infantasm {short story} 1 exemplar
The Silvering 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Ultramondes 1 exemplar
Le Passe-Broussaille 1 : la Chapelle Verte 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Mithago Wood 1 exemplar
Reflections on 'Metaphorical Man' 1 exemplar
Merlin's wood [short fiction] 1 exemplar
Sintels en andere verhalen 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 67 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Holdstock, Robert Paul
- Andra namn
- Holdstock, Robert P.
Holdstock, Rob
Faulcon, Robert
Carlsen, Chris
Kirk, Richard
Black, Robert (visa alla 8)
Blake, Ken
Eisler, Steven - Födelsedag
- 1948-08-02
- Avled
- 2009-11-29
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Hythe, Kent, England
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- E. coli infection
- Bostadsorter
- Hythe, Kent, England, UK (birth)
North London, England, UK - Utbildning
- University College of North Wales, Bangor (B.Sc. Applied Zoology) (1970)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (M.Sc. Medical Zoology) (1971)
Gillingham Grammar School for Boys - Yrken
- banana boatman
construction worker
slate miner
medical researcher
author
editor - Relationer
- Sarah Biggs (partner)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1991)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Sci-Fi Classics Art Book i Name that Book (augusti 2010)
Recensioner
Listor
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Statistik
- Verk
- 121
- Även av
- 28
- Medlemmar
- 8,502
- Popularitet
- #2,832
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 176
- ISBN
- 313
- Språk
- 12
- Favoritmärkt
- 32
- Proberstenar
- 159
The gift turns out to be a kind of curse. Despite the fact that tragedy attends it - that the fetching is a violent wrenching and often includes body parts of humans and animals - the parents start to look on their adopted son as a goldmine. Meanwhile, they transfer their parental affection to their own natural born daughter. Michael is a lonely boy, bullied at school, whose only 'friend' is an alter ego, Chalk Boy, whom he believes to be essential to his ability to fetch valuable items from the past. Chalk Boy is a fetch of another kind - a Trickster character in effect, from the old meaning of trick. He often torments Michael by switching things at the last moment so that what he brings back are rotting animals etc.
As years pass, the boy develops an obsession with the Grail which he believes he can find and recover - perhaps to win back his father's affection which is soon lost when his gift becomes less certain as he approaches puberty, and his father turns to drink.
There is some good character development though I found the father's transformation from an unpleasant drunken sott who landed the family in debt to a dubious and violent group of characters, into an abruptly reawakened repentent man who wants to rebuild his fractured relationship with Michael, less than convincing. The psychic French character Francoise is also rather a plot device. But Michael and his little sister Carol are well realised. The only aspect that becomes a bit repetitious after a while are the graphic descriptions of the aftermath of violent dismemberment which attend Michael's forays into the past. Also, the explanation for what lies behind his psychic abilities and experience is a little 'pat' for me. Hence I'm rating this as 4 stars rather than 5.… (mer)