Stalking the Unicorn [Import] [Unbound]

Mike Resnick (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound
• Publisher: Fictionwise.com (December 2000)
• ISBN-10: 1930936125
• ISBN-13: 978-1930936126
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, dark, entertaining throughout, April 29, 1999

By 

Chris (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stalking Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight (Mass Market Paperback)

If dark comedy, irony, or fantasy/sci-fi are your bag, it would be well worth it for you to try REALLY hard to find this book, as you will not be disappointed. This book starts off with John Mallory, a down on his luck private investigator, spending New Year's Eve alone in his dreary Manhattan office. His wife has run off with his ex-partner, the mafia has put a price on his head, and just when it seemed things couldn't get any cheerier, a little green elf shows up in his office who, to Mallory's surprise, is not an alcohol-based hallucination. It seems that the elf has a job for Mallory... and by dawn the next day, the two will have journeyed to an alternate world which is identical to, and at the same time nothing like, the Manhattan that Mallory has come to know. Resnick's style is dark and ironic, while still maintaining a deeper level of humor than found in most books of this genre. It may be difficult to find this book now, but if what you just read has enticed you, it'll be well worth it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and very funny, November 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Stalking Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight (Mass Market Paperback)

This remains the only book I have ever read by Resnick, though I have read a few of his short stories, which have much the same flavor. The hilarity starts in the first chapter and keeps right on going. The hero is transported to a Manhatten terrorized by a demon, because the demon has stolen a unicorn... but I won't give too much away. All I will say is- go out of your way to look for this book. The humor, the completely unexpected ending, and the oddly sympathetic bad guys (once you figure out who the bad guys are) make it hard to pass up.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining mixture of genres, December 21, 2005

By 

Sarah Sammis "Avid BookCrosser" (Hayward, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stalking The Unicorn (Mass Market Paperback)

Great silly read. Plotwise it is similar to The Maltese Falcon but put in a world that reminds me of the Artemis Fowl books. Fans of Roger Zelazny (and especially of his short story "Unicorn Variations" will enjoy this book.