Bad Monkeys!
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readingthedarkI am so not a book in one gulp person. Even books that are ridiculously meant to be read in one gulp take me days. Some take much, much longer.
But yesterday, all plans got cancelled.
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matt_ruff showed up in the mail.
It's a corker. Thrilling and twisty in a PKD kind of way, but up-to-the-minute with its weird.
If I can read and adore a book in a day, plenty of people are going to squee and woot over this puppy in a matter of minutes.
(Note: it's not out until August. I hope I can use the time in between to remind myelf that I should interview Matt Ruff for Bookslut.)
PS--I am not psychic. My recent proof for this is that, early on in the NIN ARG, I mentioned that it wasn't quite as cool at the Sean Stewart ones. As it got cooler, I changed my mind. Then I found out that Sean Stewart was involved. So, when I said that Sean Stewart did a better job, I was way wrong...
But yesterday, all plans got cancelled.
Bad Monkeys by
matt_ruff showed up in the mail.It's a corker. Thrilling and twisty in a PKD kind of way, but up-to-the-minute with its weird.
If I can read and adore a book in a day, plenty of people are going to squee and woot over this puppy in a matter of minutes.
(Note: it's not out until August. I hope I can use the time in between to remind myelf that I should interview Matt Ruff for Bookslut.)
PS--I am not psychic. My recent proof for this is that, early on in the NIN ARG, I mentioned that it wasn't quite as cool at the Sean Stewart ones. As it got cooler, I changed my mind. Then I found out that Sean Stewart was involved. So, when I said that Sean Stewart did a better job, I was way wrong...
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Date: 2007-04-22 12:03 pm (UTC)Matt's a couple years older than I am, but we both had the same excellent writing professor at Cornell. Fool on the Hill was a heavily-edited version of his senior thesis and takes place entirely at our alma mater (in case you didn't know).
What genre does the new book come closest to? Who's publishing it?
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Date: 2007-04-25 12:01 am (UTC)If Philip K. Dick watched a lot of Buffy, then a few episodes of X-files and Alias, what genre would that be? Neal Stephenson's blurb calls it: "Fast. Wicked. Scarily clever, and equally fun for those who like thrillers and those who don't."
It has elements of lots of things, but most of all it's Matt Ruff. It's HarperCollins. I've loaned it to another Ruff fan but I can probably re-snag it eventually and get it to you, if that's helpful.
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Date: 2007-04-26 08:51 pm (UTC)You should put the list up. It's good for everyone to know.
I hope you are feeling better soon!!!