Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780765316141 ISBN: 0765316145 Label: Tor Books Manufacturer: Tor Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 07, 2007 Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: August 07, 2007 Sales Rank: 333533 Studio: Tor Books
When Manuel Rodrigo de Guzmán González disappears, Wendell Apogee decides to find out where he has gone and why. But in order to figure out what happened to Manuel, Wendell must contend with parties, cockfights, and chases; an underground city whose people live in houses suspended from cavern ceilings; urban weirdos and alien assassins; immigrants, the black market, flight, riots, and religious cults.
Painted in browns and grays and sparked by sudden fires, Spaceman Blues is a literary retro-pulp science-fiction-mystery-superhero novel, the debut of a true voice of the future, and a cult classic in the making.
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Rating: - Spaceman Blues - WOW
There are many good reviews for this book already - they helped me decide to buy this book in the first place. Check them out. The best praise I can personally give this book (that hasn't already been said) is this: After reading Spaceman Blues I bought two more hard back copies and gave them to my friends.
This book is good stuff and if it signals a trend in the genre then I am officially stoked about our reading futures.
Rating: - Wild Ride of Words
An apartment explodes, and, supposedly, Manuel González is blown to smithereens along with it. Or is he? Brian Francis Slattery's debut novel, "Spaceman Blues: A Love Song," is an explosion of words, all in bright sparks, in all directions, a flaming sky of beautiful chaos. Even when I had trouble following this surreal story, I loved reading it. It almost didn't have to make sense. Sometimes the joy of literary paint splashing on walls, Pollack if this were visual, Monk if this were musical, is ... Read More
Rating: - At last!
I've read Kurt Vonnegut for years always wanting to read an actual Kilgore Trout book (not Venus on the half shell). This is that book, but only better. Slattery creates a very unique world which he describes very vividly. He uses this world to twist and squeeze the characters in a race against time. Great, entertaining read!
Rating: - Drugs, aliens, parties, superheroes, New York, good writing, and a machete!!!
I rarely lend books to friends to read (mostly cuz I never get them back), however this book was definitely lend-worthy. It was like an acid trip on paper, the Clockwork Orange of books. But you must be into its moving parts as it jumps from genre (science fiction to sappy gay love story to comic-book superhero to time travel) like a thrown stone on a flat lake. It's the kind of book where you read a paragraph and then as you move on to the next paragraph you say to yourself "wait a minute, let ... Read More
Rating: - I've read it twice in the past week!
What a wonderful book! I was immediately charmed and have read it twice so far. I do not want to put it down! Maybe it's just how my head works- but unlike the first reviewer- I got this book. Such a REAL unreal world- my kind of place!
- Spaceman Blues - WOW
