William Meikle
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Born
in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Influences
Film noir, pulp fiction, Weird Tales
Member Since
March 2008
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Infestation (S-Squad #1)
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2017
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The Land Below (The Land Below, #1)
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2020
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Operation Antarctica (S-Squad #2)
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The Hole
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2013
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Operation: Siberia (S-Squad #3)
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Operation: Amazon (S-Squad #4)
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Operation: Loch Ness (S-Squad #5)
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Operation: Yukon (S-Squad #11)
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Operation Syria (S-Squad #6)
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2019
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Operation Norway (S-Squad #7)
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2019
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Werewolfish shenanigans with the Bronte sisters on the high moors. A slow starter but it ramps up into one of his usual wild rides with all manner of high weirdness in the pot. Not top rank Powers, but still a great read as ever. |
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DECLARE is Tim Powers' take on a British, Le Carre style spy novel, with his own added supernatural twists. And as such, it's a resounding success. What starts in murky waters in the British spy services quickly spirals out into the history and final ...more | |
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The perfect suburban ghost story. Matheson always did have a way with blending the mundane job of living a working life with the supernatural forces that might swirl just beyond perception and will rush in given a chance. His work was consistently at ...more | |
“People should learn to live in the now. They spend all their time thinking about past glories and worrying about the future. Meanwhile all the moments of spontaneity and beauty they’ll ever have in their lives are flitting from future into past without being noticed. That’s why there are so many grumpy assholes in the world”
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“he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.”
― Night of the Wendigo
― Night of the Wendigo
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“You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
― Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
― Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― The Thin Man
― The Thin Man
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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