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    The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
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    The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
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    The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion

    Written by Walter Mosley

    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman and Beresford Bennett

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    The Gift of Fire
    In ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire-an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As punishment, Prometheus was bound to a rock. But in The Gift of Fire, those chains cease to be, and the great champion of man walks from that immortal prison into present-day South Central Los Angeles. Disheveled and lost, he is thrown in jail, where he meets lifelong criminal Nosome Blane. Shocked at what humanity has done with his gift, he looks for another way to empower his cause. His only hope lies with Nosome's bedridden fourteen-year-old nephew, Chief Reddy, who is anointed with Prometheus's second gift of fire . . .
    On the Head of a Pin
    Joshua Winterland and Ana Fried are working at Jennings-Tremont Enterprises. JTE is developing advanced animatronics editing techniques that will create high-end movies indistinguishable from live action. But one night Joshua and Ana discover something lingering in the rendered footage . . . an entity that will eventually reveal itself as "the Sail" and lead Joshua and Ana into a new age . . . beyond the reality they have come to know, and deep into the true nature of good and evil.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780307989963
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    The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
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    Walter Mosley

    Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.

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    • 5/5
      not bad at all after you get all of the detective stories out of your mind which is what drew me to Moseley. It's kinda out there though!! it makes you think as well. so I liked it. I may try and read another one. When I first started reading his books, mainly about Easy Rawlins, I came across a book he had written, The Blue Light, man, I just wasn't feeling it. I stopped reading about a quarter of the way through and never picked it up again and that's been about 15 years ago or so. I might have to revisit it.
    • 4/5
      First time of this author and really enjoyed both stories. He really has a way with words and telling a story..
    • 3/5
      More literary in feel than most science fiction
    • 2/5
      This book consists of two speculative novellas by Walter Mosley -- one involving Prometheus’s return to contemporary south-central Los Angeles; the other an animatronics firm’s discovery of a portal to the cosmos.I read very little genre fiction but was eager to read these because I’ve hugely enjoyed Mosley’s writing and rich characterization, especially The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and Little Scarlet. So I’m distressed to report that I hated these. They have a YA (vs. adult) feel, and (more than once) I envisioned a high-schooler writing them on his way to turn them in during class -- very thin, a mere outline of character and plot (especially in “On the Head of a Pin”), where I was continuously blind-sided by last-moment information, new characters and unearned twists.As I said and to be fair, I’m not familiar with the conventions of this genre -- these novellas may fit them well. But I am confident in suggesting them only to fans of speculative fiction.(Review based on an advance reading copy provided by the publisher.)
    • 4/5
      Walter Mosley is a very good story teller. I like him because he fires my imagination. He is rightly noted for his detective fiction featuring Easy Rawlins, but as shown in these two stories, he seems to know no boundaries. "On The Head Of A Pin" deals with the consequences of being able to see into the past and the future. The other story tells the tale of an attempt to lift man from the dregs of our society to the heights our souls were meant achieve. While both stories are very imaginative and well written, I definitely preferred the story,"On The Head Of A Pin",for it's imaginative theme combined with more believable characterizations. Mosley can take you from the heights of a mountain to the depths of your soul. He can help us count the the angels sitting on a pin or give our souls the gift of fire. Book provided for review by the well read folks of Amazon Vine and Tor publishers.