Finding an Audience: Robert Charles Wilson’s Julian Comstock

Oddly, the letter/press release accompanying Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson seems more like a plea than a pitch:

The decline of general reviewing has sadly left little space for a book like Julian Comstock–that is, a book so original and vibrant with personality, it’s hard to know where it fits and what to do with it. Parts throwback adventure, post-apocalyptic sci-fi, dashing western, prophetic religious text and gloriously subversive political manifesto, [the novel:] is that unique cre