I should probably just read something else of hers but at this point this seems so crazy that finding it seems like a challenge to me. It's supposedly one of her best so it wouldn't be out of print while the others are widely available right?Ģnd does anyone know where I can find it? A hard copy of the book is preferred but at this point I'd even go with an audiobook. It's just not my cup of tea.ġst off what is even going on here? I can find almost any other of her works through normal channels but not The Cipher.
So I figure I'll buy it, I checked amazon and other online retailers as well as all my local bookstores and not a single hard copy of the book available for less than $150!! Granted ebooks are available but I've never been able to focus on a screen that long. So I checked around at my library and not a single library in the Chicagoland area has a copy. Dick Award and World Fantasy Award.I read a short story of hers and wanted to read more, I looked at recommendations and it seemed like one of her early works, The Cipher, was considered one of her best.
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, Bram Stoker Award, ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, Gustavus Myers Award, Locus Award, Spectrum Award, Parents’ Choice Award, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, finalist for the Stoker Award, Philip K. “: an eerie, psychologically gripping urban tale.” “ plays between life and machine art and isolation creativity and passion. “In CHRISTOPHER WILD, Koja gives us an intensely romantic vision - one that is entirely appropriate for Christopher Marlowe, the man turned legend.” “ is a gothic, glam-rock take on love and sex and death that reads a little like what would happen if Sarah Waters and Angela Carter played a drunken game of Exquisite Corpse in a brothel. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive.
Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - 'Black. “VELOCITIES: STORIES at their most superb where they study the strength in bodies perceived as delicate or fragile … Koja explores the misunderstood and the dark.” Koja, Kathe - The Cipher (2011, Dell) n.p. “THE CIPHER: A stone-cold landmark of the genre.
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