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Smart, ambitious, daring – Foreword Reviews on Road to Woop Woop

The short stories of Eugen Bacon’s The Road to Woop Woop contort in the audience’s imagination because of their original imagery, unique turns of phrase, and refreshing, diverse cast … Smart, ambitious, and daring … masterful in combining science fiction with reality, resulting in an unforgettable storytelling experience. – Tanisha Rule, Foreword Reviews

Playing with genre: highly entertaining and thought-provoking

The Australian Book Review weighs in on The Road to Woop Woop.

Eugen Bacon’s début short story collection, The Road to Woop Woop, plays with the genres of speculative fiction and magic realism. Using familiar tropes such as time travel, shapeshifting, and prescient characters, the stories typically refuse formulaic outcomes. The title story, for example, confounds expectations about the horror of bodily disintegration. The ominous angel of death in the story ‘Dying’ turns out to be a true wit. The surreal is transformed by the blessing of love in the heart-warming story ‘He Refused to Name It’.

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Thistle & Verse weighs in on Road to Woop Woop

‘Shocking and disturbing… soothing, unsettling’. To celebrate the release of my collection The Road to Woop Woop today by Meerkat Press, I’m pleased to share this insightful review by Thistle & Verse on Youtube.

New black speculative fiction out soon in Cyberfunk! Anthology

How exciting! My new black speculative fiction ‘Unlimited Data’ will be published in the upcoming Cyberfunk! Anthology by MVMedia in February 2021.

Masterfully blends myths, heritage and self-discovery – Publishers Weekly Starred review of Ivory’s Story

 

Stoked to read this Publishers Weekly review.

” Bacon (The Road to Woop Woop) masterfully blends myth, heritage, and self-discovery in this impressive, genre-defying work of speculative fiction… Writing with sharp, insightful prose, Bacon delivers a taut thriller that dives deep into its distinctive protagonist’s internal life and family history. Seasoned speculative fiction readers will be wowed by Bacon’s careful, layered worldbuilding, well-developed characters, and otherworldly atmosphere. This deserves a wide audience. ”

Read the full starred review on Publishers Weekly.

Meerkat Press acquires new Afrofuturistic novel Mage of Fools!

It is with immense pleasure that I share the news of a new acquisition! Meerkat Press will publish my new Afrofuturistic novel Mage of Fools in 2022, thanks to Bieke Van Aggelen of the African Literary Agency. Find out more, and read an excerpt .

Ivory’s Story: a daring, rewarding read – Locus Magazine

“Bacon demonstrates unusual virtuosity in tone and style and offers a rare book which is at once playful and meaning­ful, with well-calibrated touches of heartbreak.”

Read the full review on Locus online

For more on Ivory’s Story, please visit NewCon Press.

Complex, earnest, and striking: Starred Publishers Weekly on Road to Woop Woop

Love this starred Publishers Weekly review of The Road to Woop Woop, and hope you do too!

“Bacon (Claiming T-Mo) delivers a commanding and visionary collection of speculative shorts, encompassing surrealism, fantasy, science fiction, and gorgeous, painterly literary fiction. It would be a disservice to call any of these 24 stories the standout, as each is impressive and beautifully rendered in Bacon’s distinct, poetic voice.” Read the full Publishers Weekly review.

Cover reveal – Black Moon!

Out this December 2020 by IFWG Australia.

Black Moon is an illustrated collection of speculative flash fiction interspersed with prose poetry. Themes of love and war, life and the afterlife, hope and despair. A philosophical assortment that questions normalcy, embraces opposition, and takes a keen interest on peculiarity. For curious lovers of literary dark fantasy and all places in between.

 

London Centric – A Futuristic Anthology

So pleased that my black speculative fiction ‘A Visit in Whitechapel’ features here. Available to order at NewCon Press.