A review by ranaldclouston
Illuminations: Stories by Alan Moore

2.0

Finished reading this Alan Moore collection. As a prose writer he has much flair but little restraint, which makes for stimulating but frustrating reading. The book is unfortunately dominated by a novel-length Tom Sharpe style ribald satire of the comics industry which was too didactic and mean-spirited to work for me. I liked his wild story of intelligent life emerging in the 1st femtosecond after the big bang, and the creepy story told in dialogue that ends the book