Herr Rau reviewed The incompleat nifft by Michael Shea
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3 stars
This is a massive book, and maybe I should not have tried to read it in one go. In the end, it was a bit of a slog. "Will my folly be believed? Can such utter abdication of my faculties be credited?", Nifft asks, and I feel I must answer in the negative.
Parts of this collection are excellent. The hellish underworlds Shea creates are fantastic nightmares straight out of Bosch. Most of the stories are set in these underworlds, and they're frequently about size - how men are dwarfed by underworld life. It's all a bit repetitive? Which I don't mind in Fritz Leiber or Jack Vance.