2024-07-20 15:30:12| Engadget
Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main character) and has an ongoing column in Fangoria dedicated to its impact, so its not really a surprise to see hes churned out another entry for the canon. But this time around, were getting a different perspective: the slashers point of view.
I Was a Teenage Slasher is the fictional memoir of Tolly Driver, who in 1989 reluctantly became Lamesa, Texas very own Michael Meyers at the age of 17 a transformation thats seemingly driven by powers beyond Tollys control. It takes the classic slasher formula and injects a whole lot of heart.
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth was released in the spring, but it just popped onto my radar and I was immediately drawn in by both the premise and Schlangers easy-to-digest writing style. The Light Eaters explores the long-debated concept of plant intelligence through conversations with scientists and deep dives into the complex processes that underlie plants survival.
Theres a fair amount of anthropomorphizing, but The Light Eaters provides a really fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of plants thats accessible to non-scientists and at the very least could inspire you to look at the natural world a little differently.
Paranoid Gardens by Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Chris Weston
The digital first issue of Paranoid Gardens, a new six-issue series from Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, dropped this week and its wonderfully bizarre. Were introduced right away to Loo, a nurse with memory loss and a tragic (but as yet unexplained) backstory who works at a care facility for aliens and paranormal beings. And its not just the patients that are out of the ordinary theres something unusual about the building itself, too. Drama quickly unfolds, and Loo must fight her way through corrupt staff members, powerful theme park cults, and her own personal demons and trauma to understand her role in all of it and discover what secrets the gardens hold.
Paranoid Gardens is written by Way (yes, of My Chemical Romance fame but also The Umbrella Academy) and Simon (The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, written with Way), and features art by Chris Weston, colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Nate Piekos.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/what-to-read-this-week-the-light-eaters-paranoid-gardens-and-i-was-a-teenage-slasher-133012961.html?src=rss
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