Carrion Comfort: Dan Simmons

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Nina and I sat in the slowly moving squares of sunlight and spoke softly of nothing important; mutually ignorant comments on the economy, references to books which the other had not got around to reading, and sympathetic murmurs about the low class of persons one meets while flying these days. Initially, though, the true person is still there and seemingly cognizant of the mindrape and the loss of control. Two years ago, I agreed to take part in the blog tour for a book by an author I had never read before.Tony Harod, a powerful Hollywood producer with minor use of 'The Ability' which he can only use on females. Salin has always wanted an adventure and, when the opportunity presents itself, he grabs it with both hands, taking his friends along for the ride – whether they want to or not. Related to that concept, Simmons in his introduction and in his book through characters, such as FBI agent Haines (a man who murders an Israeli man who was helping Saul and his entire family), who aren’t even being Used by Barent but do his bidding anyway, talk about how even without mind vampires, there is something corrosive in the human psyche that leads men to do horrible things.

On the day he was killed, Charles Edgar Larchmont had been my beau for precisely five months and two days. First mentioned in the early days in Matt Farrer’s Crossfire, the first in his Shira Calpurnia series, the approaching Sanguinala is what gives the central mystery of The Carrion Throne an urgency and a target. The three old mind vampires Willi, Nina and Melanie has been playing a game since before world war II – who can make the most people kill themselves or other people, in the most interesting ways.

Alliances are forged, treachery is afoot, and the “kings” of the chessboard, Willi and Barent, are making moves the others haven’t even conceived of yet. With enough conditioning, it can be even seamless to where such persons become servants to the vampires. The story begins in 1942, with a man named Saul Laski who fears for his life while at the Chełmno extermination camp built by Germans during World War II in Poland. For any fan of Warhammer 40,000 who is looking for a defining, perhaps even iconic, example of this war-torn galactic arena, then The Carrion Throne is a perfect stop for it embodies the best and the worst of the Imperium. Kramer's appearance was as unisex as her name; short cropped, black hair, powerful shoulders, and a blank, aggressive gaze which I associated with lesbians and criminals.

It seemed that Nina's monthly column in Vogue was to be discontinued but that a newspaper syndicate was interested in picking it up.It feels apropos that I should finish my first Dan Simmons novel, the 1989 monster epic, Carrion Comfort, on the first day of October.