seven on sunday

[adelaidesean]

Seven reasons I'm proud of The Grand Conjunction:

• It contains the biggest kick-arse space battle I could imagine.
• There's more than a hint of film noir.
• I had fun dicking around with structure.  For instance: the "Previously in Astropolis" intro contains an important hint as to both the identity of the series narrator and the ultimate fate of our hero.
• All the important questions (why Imre was reborn female in book one; what his other self has been doing all this time; etc) are answered at the end, so no one's going to be left scratching their heads.  I hope.
  
• The Gothic text I chose for inspiration was Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.  Predictable, but still a wonderful text to work with.
• The main characters literally go through a wringer.  Literally.  (Not really.)
• It's dedicated to Gary Numan.

Oh, and the last line is possibly my favourite from all my novels to date.

(Okay, that's eight, but I liked the alliteration of the subject line.  So sue me!)

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Now that the Gary Numan trilogy's done, I am patiently waiting for the Frankie Goes to Hollywood trilogy.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Don't tempt me! There's already an early, unpublished novel riddled with Frank Zappa quotes, and I still think a book structured around ELO's "Time" would be a great idea...

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

You read Verthandi's Ring, by Ian McDonald?

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I haven't. Big space battle?

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

Oh, most definitely. :)

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

He may have a bigger imagination than me. :-)