A story that bridges many ideas that float in a sea of speculation like implausible islands.
"The wrinkles on my ageing brow are like the lines of a musical stave. But there are no notes on it yet so I can’t say what my forehead sounds like. It will probably be something jazzy when it happens. Free jazz. Anything is preferable to a modern power ballad. The notes, when they come, will be blemishes, pimples, liver spots, a medley of biological quavers and minims. That’s fine and I am prepared. Let it be squeaky, inhuman, discordant music. But power ballads corrupt, absolute power ballads corrupt absolutely."
"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: General Fiction
"The wrinkles on my ageing brow are like the lines of a musical stave. But there are no notes on it yet so I can’t say what my forehead sounds like. It will probably be something jazzy when it happens. Free jazz. Anything is preferable to a modern power ballad. The notes, when they come, will be blemishes, pimples, liver spots, a medley of biological quavers and minims. That’s fine and I am prepared. Let it be squeaky, inhuman, discordant music. But power ballads corrupt, absolute power ballads corrupt absolutely."
"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: General Fiction
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