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Rhys Hughes

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in The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

Influences

Italo Calvino, Boris Vian, Stanislaw Lem, Flann O'Brien, Donald Barthe ...more

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May 2008

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A writer of Speculative Fiction who uses fantasy and comedy to explore unusual concepts. Known for his original ideas, intricate plots, love of paradox, and entertaining wordplay.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 4,630 ratings · 880 reviews · 345 distinct works • Similar authors

	A New Universal History of Infamy by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), John Clute (Foreword) 4.01 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smell of Telescopes by Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author), David Rix (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nowhere Near Milkwood 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloud Farming in Wales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Postmodern Mariner 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yule Do Nicely 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Link Arms with Toads! 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Astral Disruptor (Sampietro Mischief #1) 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Phantom Festival 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Rhys Hughes

Castor Jenkins (2 books)
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Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author)

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Sampietro Mischief (2 books)
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Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author) (author)

4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings

Stringent Strange (2 books)
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Rhys Hughes (Goodreads Author)

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Triple Obscura (2 books)
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Boris Glikman (Goodreads Author),

Jason E. Rolfe

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Trojan Donkey Chapbooks (25 books)
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Rhys rated a book really liked it Letter to My Judge (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Just finished reading this. It's not quite like other Simenon books. It feels as if he took greater care with this one to be more 'literary' and his prose as a result is somehow less fluid. But it's still magnificent, of course. In tone and style, Si ...more
Sep 27, 2026 11:23AM · 1 like · like · see review
Rhys rated a book really liked it Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have read all of Vonnegut's novels apart from Player Piano (which I have just ordered from the library). In the meantime I decided to re-read Slaughterhouse-Five. I first read it 36 years ago. I remembered it as not being among my favourite Vonnegu ...more
Sep 12, 2026 12:57PM · 3 likes · like · see review
Rhys rated a book it was amazing Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It has been ages since I read a Vonnegut novel. I read this one when I was young, so I thought it was time for a second reading. It's certainly one of Vonnegut's best books, maybe his masterpiece. Ironic in tone, it demonstrates that an author with s ...more
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Rhys rated a book it was amazing The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My mission to read (or reread) all of Nabokov's novels continues. He wrote seventeen novels in total. I have now read seven. When I was younger and first discovered him, I read ten of them and then for some reason stopped (perhaps intimidated by the d ...more
Sep 08, 2026 01:15PM · like · see review
Rhys rated a book really liked it In Hazard (New York Review Books Classics) by Richard Hughes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I was surprised at how good this was. I don't know why I should be surprised. I guess because of the fact that Joseph Conrad's 'Typhoon' is one of my favourite novellas of all time, and when I saw that this book was telling a similar story I felt it ...more
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Rhys rated a book really liked it Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Ballard at his best is one of the best short-story writers I have ever encountered. At his best, he tends to stick to the same formula: but this works for him. His finest stories are almost entirely driven by imagery expressed in highly controlled la ...more
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Rhys rated a book really liked it The Man from London by Georges Simenon	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Simenon is nearly always good. I have read maybe 90 of his books so far and only 4 or 5 were weak. Generally speaking, he is masterful, the kind of writer I regard as a 'real' writer (I can explain what I mean in greater detail, if you really want me ...more
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Rhys rated a book it was amazing Night Watch (Penguin Modern Classics) by Terry Pratchett	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I read the Penguin Modern Classics paperback, not the kindle edition, but I can't find that particular paperback on Goodreads. Anyway... Astounding! A couple of days ago I hiked from Aberdyfi to Machynlleth over the hills, a fairly stiff 6 hour trek, a ...more
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Rhys rated a book it was amazing Mary by Vladimir Nabokov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was Nabokov's first novel and perhaps his weakest, but it's still a Nabokov, so how can I rate it under five stars? It's still a good novel. It evokes a Russia long gone, a Berlin also long gone. At an early age, Nabokov was already handling iro ...more
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Rhys rated a book it was amazing Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's a Nabokov novel, so of course it's brilliant, and it is one of the best Nabokovs too, or at least one of his most accessible... I know someone who once said, "When I am reading Nabokov I wonder why I bother reading anyone else." An extreme state ...more
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“During the siege of Panama, he trailed behind his comrades, picking up shreds of purple wool which had once been blue. The fighting was incredibly vicious, but there was a deeper quality to the havoc, an ineffable wiping of belief. Though he wore his name like a sealed pocket, it was picked when he passed into the Cup of Gold, city of burnished lips.”
― Rhys Hughes, The Smell of Telescopes

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“The next stop is mine. You’d better follow.” “The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.”
― Rhys Hughes, The Smell of Telescopes

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“Clearly the world wasn’t as natural as we had always assumed. Someone or something had designed it, a joker perhaps, or if geology really was responsible, then blind physical forces had no less a sense of humour than the gods, which is not implausible.”
― Rhys Hughes, Thirty Tributes to Calvino

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