"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Jon Courtenay Grimwood


Read his books.

My review of 9Tail Fox is up at Green Man Review, and I'm working on the three Arabesks, also known as "the Ashraf Bey mysteries." Someone called him something like a post-cyberpunk Raymond Chandler, which is close, but the novels hover between that and pure slipstream (if there is such a thing). They actually start to approach the "hysterical realism" of Thomas Pynchon, but they're nowhere near that scale -- they'e quite intimate, actually.

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