A bizarre voyage around the world.
"Descending into my cellar is a dangerous thing to do. Down there, I keep my equipment and masks. Some people may quibble with my choice of words. They would doubtless prefer to say ‘labyrinth’ rather than cellar and ‘cell cultures’ rather than masks, but in my domain accurate language is less important than tone. The slightest nuance can define the crucial difference between a nuisance and a nucleus, and that’s more significant than you might suspect. Anyway, my cellar is a honeycomb of sourness, vast and disorderly, with chambers joined by haphazard corridors, tunnels and artificial ledges on sheer walls."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Fantasy
"Descending into my cellar is a dangerous thing to do. Down there, I keep my equipment and masks. Some people may quibble with my choice of words. They would doubtless prefer to say ‘labyrinth’ rather than cellar and ‘cell cultures’ rather than masks, but in my domain accurate language is less important than tone. The slightest nuance can define the crucial difference between a nuisance and a nucleus, and that’s more significant than you might suspect. Anyway, my cellar is a honeycomb of sourness, vast and disorderly, with chambers joined by haphazard corridors, tunnels and artificial ledges on sheer walls."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Fantasy
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