The triumphant return of Michael Moorcock to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake, in the crime fiction event of the year!
Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential
figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed
recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British
writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150
shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the
recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the
Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World
Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of
Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy
Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the
Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread
Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming,
Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.
Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel
THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and
of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been
published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains
BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). Mark was born in the UK. He
has worked as a commercial radio scriptwriter, a freelance
copywriter, and as a web content producer for the BBC. Since 2009,
he has lived in Valencia, Spain, where he writes full-time.
“Makes Jack Reacher look like a bungling amateur...definitely not
be missed.” — The Crime Review
“Delighted to see Sexton Blake still going strong – and with such
aplomb!” -- Agatha Christie
"The Sexton Blake Saga is the nearest approach to a national
folk-lore" -- Dorothy L Sayers
"After more than seventy years of continuous publication, Sexton
Blake is still the doyen of detectives." -- Daily Telegraph
"[Moorcock] is the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British
Fantasy." — Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalaier & Clay, and Telegraph
Avenue
"Moorcock’s influence is nothing like Tolkien’s, at least on the
surface, but his vision of a speculative-fiction genre that can be
psychologically complex is evident in how very sophisticated some
of it has become—from “True Detective” to Jeff VanderMeer, from
David Mitchell to “Under the Skin.” — The New Yorker
"Moorcock as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and
Wyndham Lewis... The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock
continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a
measure of the author’s remarkable talents" — J.G.Ballard, author
of Empire of the Sun, Crash, and The Drowned World
"[Moorcock] can gleefully give you all the formulae of every kind
of story there ever was, because he's tried and tested all of them
... the master story-teller of our time." — Angela Carter author of
The Bloody Chamber, and Nights at the Circus
"Serious literary fun as Mark Hodder vaults to the front of the new
steampunk writers pack. Elaborately researched and name-checked,
THE SECRET OF ABDU EL YEZDI races Victorian explorer Sir Richard
Burton through a diabolically baffling maze of historical
possiblities -- plus there's corsets and airships. Hard to imagine
any lover of alternate British empires not being thoroughly amazed
and entertained" ? K.W. Jeter
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