| Author: | James P. Blaylock | ISBN: | 9781936535637 |
| Publisher: | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. | Publication: | December 4, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | James P. Blaylock |
| ISBN: | 9781936535637 |
| Publisher: | Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
| Publication: | December 4, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Journey to the center of the Earth ...
Giles Peach was unique. He was born with a neat set of gills on either side of his neck - and webbed fingers. He enjoyed reading (Edgar Rice Burroughs was his favorite author) and he liked to invent things.
First he invented a working model of the solar system, powered by the motor from an old electric fan. Next he invented a mechanical man whose legs were roped-together tin cans. Finally he began work on the grandest invention of all: a machine that would burrow to the center of the Earth, a digging leviathan.
Absurd? Perhaps. But Giles Peach had the power to make his wildest fantasies come true...
"A literally wonderful novel - Blaylock's convincingly idiosyncratic characters lurch, rage and strive through a sort of modern day Hieronymus Bosch cityscape that makes us peer a little more suspiciously at the pavement under our feet. Blaylock has a uniquely colorful perspective on the world, as well as the craft to communicate it and the art to make it delightfully entertaining." -- Tim Powers
"Blaylock is an original author grounded in the quintessential classics, yet ready without notice to astonish: not only with what he reveals to us but how." -- Philip K. Dick
Journey to the center of the Earth ...
Giles Peach was unique. He was born with a neat set of gills on either side of his neck - and webbed fingers. He enjoyed reading (Edgar Rice Burroughs was his favorite author) and he liked to invent things.
First he invented a working model of the solar system, powered by the motor from an old electric fan. Next he invented a mechanical man whose legs were roped-together tin cans. Finally he began work on the grandest invention of all: a machine that would burrow to the center of the Earth, a digging leviathan.
Absurd? Perhaps. But Giles Peach had the power to make his wildest fantasies come true...
"A literally wonderful novel - Blaylock's convincingly idiosyncratic characters lurch, rage and strive through a sort of modern day Hieronymus Bosch cityscape that makes us peer a little more suspiciously at the pavement under our feet. Blaylock has a uniquely colorful perspective on the world, as well as the craft to communicate it and the art to make it delightfully entertaining." -- Tim Powers
"Blaylock is an original author grounded in the quintessential classics, yet ready without notice to astonish: not only with what he reveals to us but how." -- Philip K. Dick
