Christopher Burns
Autor(a) de The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
About the Author
Obras de Christopher Burns
Deadly Decisions: How False Knowledge Sank the Titanic, Blew Up the Shuttle, and Led America into War (2008) 15 cópias
Lexicon 5 cópias
The Numbers 2 cópias
Among the wounded [short fiction] 1 exemplar(es)
Babel [short fiction] 1 exemplar(es)
Fogged plates [short fiction] 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 153
- Popularidade
- #136,480
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 29
- Idiomas
- 1
Review of the Nightjar Press chapbook (November 2021)
This short story envisages a future world where society has surrounded control to a central authority which keeps everyone in line with periodic dictated visits to a bonesetter." The name is derived from the early name for informally trained chiropractors or osteopaths before the practice became a formal medically trained profession. However, the new type of bonesetter is a psychological torturer who causes the subject physical pain in association with certain memories or thoughts.
This was a creepily effective metaphor for the dystopic trend in societies to give up private lives and personal freedoms for central authoritarian observation and control.
I read A Visit to the Bonesetter as part of a second batch of selections from the limited edition short story chapbooks published by Nightjar Press. Nightjar is run by Nicolas Royle, author and editor, who is probably best known for his annual selection of Best British Short Stories (2011+ and ongoing) and for the recent book-obsessive memoir White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector (2021).… (mais)