Stories about the afterlifes of five renowned writers: Daniil Kharms, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Boris Vian, Yasunari Kawabata, and Richard Brautigan. What happened to them after they became ghosts and moved into a higher dimension?
"Eternity dragged on. It still drags on. Our afterlives are different, but sometimes they blend or interlace in a variety of combinations. Somewhere out there is the very best possible afterlife, elsewhere the worst. But the majority lie somewhere between the extremes, on a spectrum formed by the prism of death..."
"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
"Eternity dragged on. It still drags on. Our afterlives are different, but sometimes they blend or interlace in a variety of combinations. Somewhere out there is the very best possible afterlife, elsewhere the worst. But the majority lie somewhere between the extremes, on a spectrum formed by the prism of death..."
"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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