Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons

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Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons

Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons

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Because that is violence — that is the mind vampires Simmons talks about in real life and through his fictional book — whether on an intimate level and/or a global level: Violence is generational, with millions of echoes. When Willi's plane explodes the next day, Melanie suspects Nina and then a fight ensues, with both characters using innocent bystanders as soldiers and victims in a bizarre series of brutal murders involving children, old men, and security guards until Nina is shot in the head and dies. Dr Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust in World War II, spent time in Israel, and who currently works at Columbia University. The victims of the Holocaust were powering Saul forward, literally as he took step after step toward Willi, until he was able to choke Willi to death. The characters Saul and Natalie, learning about the actions of The Trio and The Island Club, observe that these people with immense psychic powers could be considered a type of vampire, as they feed off the energy of those they indirectly kill to gain youth and energy.

Sheriff Gentry, now the only one investigating the murders as the FBI has shown no interest, realizes he is being followed. The first half of the novelette makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half forms chapter 3.

The novel portrays a tiny fraction of humanity that has immense psychic powers, which they refer to as "The Ability. Or perhaps I was thinking about them just prior to falling asleep and a fragment had stayed with me until morning. I watch the American slaughter house, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

Add in the real-life horrors of the Holocaust that Simmons goes into great detail with, and the opening few hundred pages of his book are unforgettable. In other words, I’m saying this is the longest it has taken me to read a book — just shy of two weeks — since earlier this year when it took me 12 days to read Neal Stephenson’s newest book, Termination Shock at 708 pages.If I had wished to take something from my fallen lover as a sign of remembrance, why that alien piece of metal? Perhaps it was the dark forests of his homeland that he thought of as he stalked his human quarry through the sterile streets of Los Angeles. It has been some time since I’ve read anything from Chris Wraight, whom I consider to be one of the most careful and intentioned world-builders within the ranks of Black Library’s authors. The blond young man showed his white smile and the Negro bobbed his head in what I took as a farewell.



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