February 10, 2008

An Evil Guest

While searching for information on a specific Gene Wolfe short story (Easter Sunday), I came across a Neil Gaiman post musing on Wolfe’s upcoming novel, An Evil Guest. It’s set in the near future, though apparently has a 1930’s atmosphere, with several Lovecraft references.

Says Gaiman:

It’s a pulp thriller – and that’s a compliment, because Wolfe knows from pulp thrillers (he wrote a wonderful pastiche of one in “The Island of Dr Death and Other Stories”) and because here he’s creating a strange sort of genre meltdown, a 21st century pulp adventure thriller with SF and horror elements that nobody else could possibly have written.

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