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Rhys Hughes

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A writer of Speculative Fiction who often 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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Rhys Hughes I never get writer's block. If I ever had writer's block I would regard it as a message to stop writing and go and do something else. I hope that this…moreI never get writer's block. If I ever had writer's block I would regard it as a message to stop writing and go and do something else. I hope that this will always be the case.(less)
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The Smell of Telescopes

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Nowhere Near Milkwood

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Worming the Harpy and Other...

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The Postmodern Mariner

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Link Arms with Toads!

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Cloud Farming in Wales

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The Astral Disruptor (Sampi...

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The Phantom Festival

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Boy by Quentin Blake
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Wonderful! Roald Dahl had a phenomenal gift for writing. He is able to make the pages turn with unstoppable momentum and the reader thinks he is merely reading fast. The prose is so smooth, almost frictionless, that it practically reads itself.

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Barefoot in the Head by Brian W. Aldiss
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I have just successfully finished reading Aldiss' most experimental novel, BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD, at the age of 56, my third attempt (the first when I was 18, the second a few years later). The first half of the book I always found excellent (but diff ...more
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Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
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The bleakest Simenon I have read so far? Yes, I think so, even though The Man Who Waved at Trains and The Snow was Dirty were pretty strong stuff when it comes to bleakness. But with Simenon it is always the quality of the writing, which is superb, a ...more
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The second volume in the 'Dan Barry' series, and I enjoyed this one more than the first. Max Brand's Westerns are strange: they seem like pulp Westerns on the surface, but they have supernatural elements and (perhaps more to the point) elements deriv ...more
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The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham
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A tremendous novel by an author who constantly goes higher in my estimation. This is an adventure novel but done in a more literary, introspective and philosophical manner than the sort of adventure novels that were common at the time (the 1930s). It ...more
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I only became a proper fan of Tintin recently. True, I did read a couple of his adventures when I was young, but they didn't make such a big impression on me as they now do. They are exciting adventure stories and remind me a little of the novels of ...more
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Pigs Have Wings by P.G. Wodehouse
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My first Wodehouse novel. I have read a few of his short-stories over the years but for some unfathomable reason I never tackled one of his novels before now. Finally I have repaired this gaping chasm in my literary education...

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Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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It has taken a long time but I have finally finished this 600+ page short story collection. I started reading it three years ago (maybe even four years ago) but it's not the sort of collection I felt inclined to race through (as I might do with a boo ...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.”
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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.”
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“All that now separated retirement from rest was a single box. The previous owner had been eager to protect its contents, using a lock carved from garlic. He picked it with a sprig of parsley and groped inside, pulling out an exact likeness of himself, a puppet double. Even his cork leg sealed the same dry white panic, judging from the way it jerked.”
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40k Book Club: Paul Di Filippo: The Complete Interview (Part 2) 1 9 Dec 06, 2010 11:52AM  
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