The Garden
by James Dorr
eBook ISBN: 9781615720156
Price: $ 4.50
Genre: Science Fiction
Sub Genre: none
Novella of 9549 words
Sex rating: 3
Violence rating: 3
Edited by Heather Williams
Cover Artwork by Marge Simon
Print ISBN: 9781615720149 Buy Here
About the book:
James Dorr’s novella takes us to a mysterious garden, an oasis of plenty in the midst of a blighted New England countryside. From there, however, we enter a world of cutting edge biochemistry, experimentation with DNA and implanted memories, of modifications of near-microscopic life, albeit still in a gothic setting more reminiscent, perhaps, of authors like Hawthorne or Poe.
Add to this setting the reclusive daughter, Alma Sharp, of an almost legendary invertebrate zoologist, mix with a graduate student from Boston, Steven Kerridge, whose upcoming thesis is based on the work of Sharp’s father, and what results is a cocktail of science and love, of death and horror, a horror that ultimately will spill out to the world beyond -- “The Garden,” by James Dorr.
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Excerpt:
Yet something seemed not right. The smell of the loam? He thought he smelled turned earth. A certain sourness? Or...
He found a part of the wall that had crumbled to almost ground level and scrambled over.
Or, not so much smell, but the size of the plants he saw inside. Onions. Wild cherries. Cucumbers, yes, and grape vines as well, as big around as a thin person's wrist. And now he could see the tree that the smell of apples had come from -- the tree top he'd seen from the wall's other side -- and it was enormous.
External Reviews:
| Colleen Wanglund at The Horror Fiction Review | "My imagination got a good workout, and it still didn't end how I thought it would." |
| Janie Franz at The Midwest Book Review | "The Garden is science fiction and horror at its classic best." |
| Paul Stotts at Blood of the Muse blog | "...the ending is fantastic, wildly unpredictable and truly stunning." |
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