The very splendid James Lovegrove, on ECHO CITY:
Tim Lebbon made his name as a writer of cheerfully gory horror fiction, and that’s evident in Echo City’s prologue, which opens with a monstrous creature shambling across a toxic wasteland and dying. From its corpse emerges another smaller creature, which continues the journey until it too dies, and from its corpse emerges yet another, still smaller creature, and so on. It’s a ghastly, death-inflected parody of the cycle of life, and sets the scene superbly for the existential torments that are to come.
Echo City is packed with gruesome detail and outlandish characters but the star of the show is the city itself, marooned in an unending, lethal desert. Lebbon seems to know every sinister nook and dusty cranny of the place, and enriches his creation with an intricate backstory of internecine religious cults, social stratification and genetic engineering. His seething urban stew bubbles over with the arrival of an outsider who has, impossibly, survived the rigours of the imprisoning wilderness, sparking conflict and the fulfilment of apocalyptic prophecies.
Today’s very special … at Melissa Walker’s website there’s a new Cover Stories feature, where you can learn about the progress of the artwork for THE WILD. The interview involves me, Christopher Golden, splendid artist Greg Ruth, and our excellent editor Jordan Brown. Anyone who’s interested in the processes that go into creating cover art should read this … fascinating stuff.
And today we’re at lectitans, with a blog about research and another piece of exclusive artwork.
It’s Day One of the Secret Journeys of Jack London BLOG TOUR! Please pop along to bildungsroman to check out an interview and view some exclusive artwork. It’ll be fun!
And tomorrow’s the big day … release date for THE WILD. So if you’re thinking of buying the book, now would be a very good time. You won’t be disappointed.
Mike Mignola wasn’t: “A great old-school adventure novel and the best use of the Wendigo legend I’ve ever read.”
And neither was Garth Nix: “A masterful mix of gold, cold, supernatural creatures, and dread magic makes this a great action adventure story.”
Can’t argue with that.
And if you want to download the exclusive Electronic Press Kit … here it is.
Here’s an interesting review of Echo City…
And a nice review of my story in Swords and Dark Magic here …
Hi folks …. a couple of links.
First, here’s a really nice review of ECHO CITY, available now in the USA and July here in the UK.
And there’s an interview with me up now at The Damned Interviews.
New interview with me now up and live at The Horror Zine … check it out!
The Secret Journeys of Jack London: The Wild (first book the new trilogy by me and Christopher Golden), will be hitting the shelves at the beginning of March in the USA, and there’ll be some exciting promotional stuff going on between now and then. Watch this space for news!
Stephen Volk and I have finished our first collaborative screenplay, PLAYTIME, and we’re just thrilled with how it’s turned out.
Other than that, I’m still working hard on my new fantasy novel for Orbit. As yet, I can’t give you a title … but soon. Soon.
A couple of nice mentions I wanted to draw your attention to. First, award-winning horror writer Brian Keene has posted his Top Ten Books of 2010, and The Thief of Broken Toys is in there.
And here’s a nice review of my old collection, Fears Unnamed.
I’m back in the saddle following the holidays, working hard on a brand new fantasy novel for Orbit in the UK (which has a working title that will almost certainly change, so I won’t mention it), and a couple of other projects that are going to slip into top gear soon.
Just bought Backspacer by Pearl Jam … great album.
And I’m also reading a very excellent novel in manuscript form, which I’ll talk about a bit more when I’ve finished.
You can read a feature about ECHO CITY on Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog. It’s fun. Go see it. It talks about how difficult a task I set writing myself a story wherein the history is sometimes as alive as the present.
