The Vorrh

[rich]

thanks, dave for the heads up. sounds interesting
rich

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> [...]
>
> "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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