![]() But that’s not the worst of it, because Charlie sees, in his room, a tall dark figure who insists that Charlie shouldn’t be able to see him. He’s right to worry, in a sense, because his wife dies immediately after childbirth. A constant worrier, he’s convinced that his wife, about to give birth to their first child, is too good for him. Only this isn’t the Discworld, this is modern-day San Francisco.Ĭharlie Asher is a beta male. Christopher Moore is, like Pratchett, a comic writer, and here he’s on territory that would have some familiarity to Pratchett readers: the personification of Death. The Pratchett comparison is not coincidental. A Dirty Job was released here in August, and he has other books being released in November and in December. Christopher Moore, it turns out, is a writer, and while he doesn’t have nearly as many volumes to his credit as does Terry Pratchett, I’d say it’s only a matter of time. ![]() (Review first published on the Antipodean Specfic in Focus website, January 2008)Ī month ago, I wasn’t even aware I shared the planet with anyone named Christopher Moore (although I suppose that, if pressed, I would have regarded it as a strong statistical likelihood that an entity of that name existed). ![]()
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