Spaceman Blues, Brian Francis Slattery
Spaceman Blues, Brian Francis Slattery
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Spaceman Blues
A Love Song

Author: Brian Francis Slattery

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 6 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/22/2008

Synopsis

This debut novel is hailed by sci-fi luminary Harlan Ellison as a "mad tornado of words." After Manuel Rodrigo de GuzmAn GonzAlez disappears, his lover Wendell Apogee searches through New York City's "Darktown" to find him. Along the way, he encounters everything from black market dealers to alien assassins. "Slattery's debut is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the immigrant experience ... Pynchon crossed with Steinbeck, painted by DalI ..." -Kirkus Reviews

About Brian Francis Slattery

Brian Francis Slattery is the author of four novels: Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six after the Collapse of the United States of America, Lost Everything—which won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012—and The Family Hightower. He was also on the writing team for Bookburners, a serial fiction project headed by Max Gladstone. He has published short fiction in Glimmer Train, Interfictions, The Revelator, the anthology Welcome to Dystopia, and The Sunday Morning Transport, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shaun

It's not often that one comes in contact with a truly literary-style piece of science fiction with superheroes, trench coat aliens, and underground floating cities, let alone a literary-style piece of science fiction that works. Slattery's Spaceman Blues is a stunning, if not astonishing piece of fi......more

Goodreads review by Trin

Sort of Neverwhere meets Men in Black, if that can be believed. Wendell's lover Manuel disappears, and rather than grieve and let go, Wendell decides to dedicate himself to finding him, even if it means giving up everything he is and traveling deep into New York City's underworld, a city beneath th......more

Goodreads review by Ferret

A difficult book to explain. Cryptic and charming and filled with humor and beauty and love. And constantly, a surprise around the corner. One doesn't expect, in a book stylistically modeled after SF's New Wave, to find such a great, action-packed climactic battle. Yet Captain Spaceman's fight with......more

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