Soft Reboot, Joachim Heijndermans
Paperback, nieuw, eerste druk 24 december 2022, Joachim Heijndermans
Can we go from bad to…better? Can there be joy once an ocean turns to a dead soup? Can we find love as we’re irradiated and on death’s door? Can we learn to see a suffering people as more than background players on a livestream of our vacation?
Writer and artist Joachim Heijndermans hopes to find these answers and more throughout his second short story collection as he tries to center himself with a personal Soft Reboot.
From the writer of ‘All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place’ comes this collection of eighteen stories, accompanied by art pieces and one brand new tale exclusive only to this book. Face the grim bleakness, but also find the joy.
Review Goodreads:
” The stories in this second collection are certainly well written – maybe even better written than those in the first collection. Here I almost never found myself conscious of these stories being written by a Dutchman writing in English. They mostly felt very natural. I also have to commend the author on the breadth of his imagination, as even though to me there’s more unity in tone and genre here (no true cosmic horror for instance – however, there’s a fantasy in here!), these stories are still pretty diverse. They also convey the humanist mindset of the author – both in their sad look at what human beings are able to do to their planet, their fellow humans and other animals (with those stories I really felt as if the author let out a deep sigh) and in the few more hopeful stories at the end – and what impressed me even more was how the author doesn’t point only to others when laying the blame, but is conscious of his own failings and failures and the cynicism and pure apathy that makes us slow to take action, eager to look away. No easy answers here, but the sense that we -individually and collectively- could do better. If only our systems were not cluttered. Maybe it’s time for a ‘soft reboot’? Worth your time if you love short speculative fiction, and like your collections diverse.”
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