Dr. Black review

A review of Dr. Black and the Gurrillia appeard on Risingshadow.net, reviewed by Seregil of Rhiminee.

 

 

 

The New and Perfect Man

PS Publishing has released “The New and Perfect Man”. It has a Dr. Black novella of mine in it called “Dr. Black, Thoughts & Patents”. The book is really beautiful. Very elegant, lots of good writing. Buy it here.

another 2

1. JL Williams talks about The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children on the Pank Blog

2. Brendan Moody talks about Dr. Black and the Guerrillia at The Stars at Noonday

Fright Site, Dr. Black

Adam Groves reviews Dr. Black and the Guerrillia at the Fright Site, saying:

“This wildly satiric and surreal novella, a handsomely printed limited edition hardcover, is essentially uncategorizable, reading like some mutant hybrid of Raymond Roussel and David Foster Wallace but still very much its own inscrutable beast.”

Reviews

A review of Metrophilias at the Seattle Post Intelligencer and a review of Dr. Black and the Guerrillia at the Denver Books Examiner.

Dr. Black, Thoughts & Patents

PS Publishing picked this story up for Postscripts. I guess it is slated for Spring 2011. I think it is probably my personal favourite of the Dr. Black stories.

San Corrados Photo

A picture taken at the Hotel San Salvador, in Los Moscadinos,  San Corrados.

Some Notebook Notes for Dr. Black

half our knowledge we must snatch not take

we have already begun. When the

The art of the blowgun

Manioch beer

Armadillo

Flying ants

Rust coloured bank

The streets were all dirt

A wrong move will result in a lethal shower of darts by the world most expert dart-blowers

Dr. Black Extract

Here is an extract from Dr. Black and the Village of Stones, which was published in Electric Velocipede last year:

beef-flakes fell from the clear sky; a thick shower, on the ground, draped in trees, hanging on fences     mutton or venison     lung-tissue     shower of frogs darkened the sky and covered the earth very young minnows, fishes, falling in a straight line, in a space not more than a metre square     or grain which the goats ate and women ground into flour, made burebrot, decent, but not of the highest quality dried spawn of some reptile, doubtless the frog     each drop was made up of many thin red blood river worms with transparent bodies     stones from the clouds    caterpillars, over beyond the shoulder of the mountain     more extreme: eggs; barrels of sugar; falls of salt; butter; ham; a typewriter