Susanne Röckel
Der Vogelgott
btb: €11
Ein bisschen Poe, ein bisschen Perutz, ein bisschen Lovecraft, ein bisschen Kafka. Das ganze erzählt nach dem Schema von Franzens Die Korrekturen: aus der Sicht dreier Geschwister erhalten wir nacheinander einen Blick aufs Geschehen und verfügen am Ende über ein wunderbares Gesamtbild! Or not… Denn dafür ist er viel zu mysteriös und ungreifbar, dieser schreckliche Vogelgott. [Caro]

Lavie Tidhar
By Force Alone
Head of Zeus: €19,25
This is a hilarious dirty version of the Camelot-Epic with lots of Pop-Culture hints and I read out passage aloud from time to time without care if someone listened or not. [Wolf]

Fantastically fantastic. Arthur’s story has never been told with so much verve, literary inventiveness and kick-ass-ideas. Lancelot turns out to be a martial arts champion. Merlin vanquishes a haunted forest with mathematics. And have there actually Strugatzki-aliens been picnicking on this world too?? Find out! Be Blown Away! [Caro]

Has anyone mentioned that the knights of the round table start as a gang of drug-dealers in Londinium and kind of go down from there (at least in my book, where war-mongers are a step below gangsters)? Anyway, there's so much to love here, from the Tarantino references to the deeply tragic story of the hunt for the quest beast, and the whole sfnal finale ... wow! [Jakob]