Wisdom can be awfully wonky at times.
"How was your day? This is the question that people ask each other after the sun has gone down. Sometimes they ask it even earlier. The usual answer is, ‘Fine, thanks,’ followed by, ‘How was yours?’ If I had to reply to this, I would declare that my day had been quite good, for I am a wise man and wise men often have quite good days. Not always, of course, but if they are very wise, as I am, that doesn’t matter very much. A bad day can never stop a wise man being wise."
"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
"How was your day? This is the question that people ask each other after the sun has gone down. Sometimes they ask it even earlier. The usual answer is, ‘Fine, thanks,’ followed by, ‘How was yours?’ If I had to reply to this, I would declare that my day had been quite good, for I am a wise man and wise men often have quite good days. Not always, of course, but if they are very wise, as I am, that doesn’t matter very much. A bad day can never stop a wise man being wise."
"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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