A unique and extraordinary novel of alien first contact, and how humanity copes in the aftermath.
Rian Hughes is an award-winning graphic designer illustrator, comic
artist, writer and typographer who has worked extensively for the
British and American advertising, music and comic book
industries.
He has written and drawn comics for 2000AD and Batman: Black and
White, and designed logos for James Bond, The X-Men, Superman,
Hedkandi and The Avengers.
Vastly ambitious, XX is the most astonishing blend of narrative,
meta-narratives and visuals. Real ‘wow’ moments and big ideas
combine with brilliant typographical flourishes to create the Moby
Dick of sci-fi.
*Daily Mail*
Genuinely unlike anything else I have ever read . . . The
confidence and style with which Hughes juggles all his material is
only matched by his extraordinary imagination and vision, and as
the book races towards a mindboggling climax it leads the reader to
some remarkable ideas about the nature of life, the universe and
everything. Simply stunning.
*Big Issue*
XX keeps you turning the pages, engages with big ideas and delivers
an authentic jolt of awe as it takes its galaxy-spanning conceit to
the limit, and then some.
*Financial Times*
The look is every bit as vital as its plot and its prose.
Compulsively readable. Its ideas are grand, and it moves like a
thriller. Come for the lush design, stay for the Clarkeian ideas
and sly sense of humour.
*SFX*
Rian Hughes’ stunning visual spectacle of a novel . . . this
staggering book!
*SciFi Now*
Brilliant, exciting, absorbing, and mind-blowing . . . A perfect
work of art about what it means to be human in a world of gigantic
ideas.
*Grant Morrison*
This is a book which only Rian Hughes could have created, which
should make us all eternally grateful that he did.
*Kieron Gillen*
A novel that is novel is so many ways. A brilliant co-mix of text
and graphic design in which sign, symbol and word are
linguistically intertwined and reinvented.
*Steven Heller*
Rian Hughes is a luminescent pop culture demon.
*David Quantick*
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