The Count of Monte Cristo, or do I dare say, The Stars My Destination, loosely provides the framework of this entertaining romp of Pynchean scope, with riffs of Bradbury waxing lyrical amid surreal strains of M. John Harrison in which Wendell Apogee undergoes a transformation in his quest to find where Manuel, his lover, has [...]
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March 12, 2008
The Codex Gigas Revisited
I’ve noticed a lot of searches for the Codex Gigas torrent leading people to this site, to their dismay, perhaps, because there’s nothing here but linguistic acrobatics. No longer! I aim to give the public what they seek! I had no luck finding the Codex Gigas after I read that article, but today I did [...]
February 12, 2008
Graphic Novel Bender
I’ve gone and done it. Discarding my interest in novels, I turned to graphic publications which I perused with abandon, the orders racking up in my local library holds unit. Mind you I read a whole lot more than I’ve listed, but I figured these deserved a mentioning. I tremendously enjoyed many of those stories, [...]
January 31, 2008
Where is Katie Waitman?
Having penned two very remarkable books, The Merro Tree in 1997 and The Divided in 1999, she has remained alarmingly silent. Perusals of her name in various search engines brought up no relevant information as to the whereabouts of Katie Waitman dated after 1999. These books, especially The Merro Tree, have remained with me for [...]
August 16, 2007
Jerry Cornelius in the Wake
Delving in the Wake, one finds one’s perceptions reflected, one’s thoughts elaborated, one’s interests impounded on: the Wake is the mirror into the reader’s soul. Jerry Cornelius’s ambiguous nature was a short obsession of mine. His worldloving and wholehearted vileness still retains a tender place in my bookish heart. Certain passages smacked of the English [...]
May 21, 2007
Space War Blues
I stumbled upon this gem in the clearance section of an used book store.
N’Alabama, a mix of ubermensch mentality and southern values, wars against N’Haiti, these people of dark skin. The N’Haitis have a plan to resurrect the ancient vodu traditions of their ancestors to fill their ranks. The N’Yu-Atlanchi are small sensory organs with [...]
