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Manic Surrealism
Was fathered by myself and born of an old mechanical typewriter in 1990. Its title was Subvision. Twenty years on this novel is about to be unleashed on an indifferent universe in the form of an ebook via Smashwords and Kindle. Is the universe ready?
A few years prior to writing Subvision I read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I've been a Pynchon fan ever since. I even bought Vineland in hardback, in 1990. It was the former tome that pretty much set the bar for me, however. Not one I'll ever reach. What Pynchon taught me was this: if you're good enough, you can get away with anything. Naturally, I've been trying ever since.
Back to Subvision. People will hate it. It's all over the place, has too many interweaving stories and characters come and go often without properly introducing themselves. The narrative is fast-paced and overloaded with imagery. It's multilayered, unpredictable, complicated and strange. But if you like words, prose that seldom stands still, poetic bursts of colour and action and the odd joke, it may well be for you.
Subvision is in fact the first of four books themed on Hell. Underlay came next, then Imbroglio (on its way) and finally Warm Refrigerator. Whilst these books are all quite different they share the same DNA.
Manic surrealism. Hyphenate if you will.
A few years prior to writing Subvision I read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I've been a Pynchon fan ever since. I even bought Vineland in hardback, in 1990. It was the former tome that pretty much set the bar for me, however. Not one I'll ever reach. What Pynchon taught me was this: if you're good enough, you can get away with anything. Naturally, I've been trying ever since.
Back to Subvision. People will hate it. It's all over the place, has too many interweaving stories and characters come and go often without properly introducing themselves. The narrative is fast-paced and overloaded with imagery. It's multilayered, unpredictable, complicated and strange. But if you like words, prose that seldom stands still, poetic bursts of colour and action and the odd joke, it may well be for you.
Subvision is in fact the first of four books themed on Hell. Underlay came next, then Imbroglio (on its way) and finally Warm Refrigerator. Whilst these books are all quite different they share the same DNA.
Manic surrealism. Hyphenate if you will.
Words Are the Gravy On the Mashed Potato of Life
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