The Vorrh

[Dave Monroe]

The Vorrh
By BRIAN CATLING

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/248404/the-vorrh-by-b-catling/

The Vorrh by B Catling review – ‘one of the most original works of
visionary fiction since Mervyn Peake’

A sentient forest older than mankind is the setting for an extraordinary fantasy

Michael Moorcock
Wednesday 20 May 2015 11.15 EDT

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"By the time 'the Frenchman', evidently the neurasthenic Roussel,
arrives on the scene, followed a little later by the experimental
photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the book has acquired some of the
best qualities of a Pynchon novel. Indeed, Pynchon is Catling’s
nearest comparison. His themes are the many forms of psychic and
physical colonisation. Combining several different kinds of narrative,
as well as referencing many more, Catling borrows from popular and
marginal sources to tell a story which has all Peake’s remorseless
drive and remains in the mind the whole time one is away from it."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/20/the-vorrh-b-catling-review-michael-moorcock
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