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Charles de Lint reviews ‘Hereafter and After’ by Richard Parks
Posted by Darren on September 3rd, 2007 at 13:17
Richard Parks dropped us an email to let us know that no less a luminary than World Fantasy Award winning author Charles de Lint has reviewed two of Richard’s titles, including our own Hereafter and After, in the August 2007 edition of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine.
Here’s a short extract from the review:
“[In Hereafter and After] we meet recently deceased Jake Hallman who, after getting hit by a garbage truck, awakes to find himself in the afterlife on something called the Golden Road. An angel comes to escort him to Heaven, but Hallman has questions, which leads him to have an ‘insight’, which makes him that rare being in the afterlife: a dead person who is capable of change. The dead aren’t supposed to change after their death; those who do become free souls.
“And that leads Hallman on a stranger journey through the afterlifes of all sorts of myths with only the company of an equally bewildered ex-Valkyrie named Freya for company. All of this allows Parks to poke gentle fun and make some serious commentary on our belief systems, and it gives us a terrific read.”
You can read the full review over at the F&SF website, in which Charles de Lint also covers Richard’s collection Worshipping Small Gods.