Chess is the game of life and death.
"The gambler was addicted to betting. He would bet on anything under the sun and everything under the moon. He lived in a tiny room above the tavern because he had once accepted a bet that he would move into better accommodation when his finances improved. His finances improved but in order to win the bet he remained in that appallingly constricted space. He bet that life was a checkerboard of nights and days, not a backgammon board of griefs and joys, and he won."
"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
"The gambler was addicted to betting. He would bet on anything under the sun and everything under the moon. He lived in a tiny room above the tavern because he had once accepted a bet that he would move into better accommodation when his finances improved. His finances improved but in order to win the bet he remained in that appallingly constricted space. He bet that life was a checkerboard of nights and days, not a backgammon board of griefs and joys, and he won."
"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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