*Leaving Fortusa* published today!
Oct. 1st, 2008 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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You'll doubtless have noticed the avid media buzz surrounding the publication today of the hardback of my mosaic novel Leaving Fortusa (the trade paperback edition follows a couple of weeks behind). This is certainly my most important piece of fiction to date, and perhaps the most important I will ever write.
The publisher, Norilana Books, has posted a page for the book here; it includes extracts from the couple of advance reviews the novel has received ("An ambitious and daring book" -- Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker; "I loved this book. . . . 5/5 stars for sheerly amazing writing, and a big kudos to Norilana Books for publishing it" -- Someone's Read It Already) as well as, of course, the cover image:
And links for purchase:
US:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Elsewhere:
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon FR
Amazon DE
Amazon JP
And the blurb:
A dystopian masterpiece by the Hugo, Locus, Chesley, and World Fantasy Award-winning author. . .
A disabled US veteran from Iraq finds in Scotland a bizarrely distorted form of Fairyland and realizes he has lost his own country. A New Yorker learns how to discard the sad times from his life as around him society crumbles. A dream-research laboratory uncovers the true origin of our reality, a secret too dangerous to reveal . . .
The powerhouse dystopian novel by a master of fantastic literature.
Two children are taught to suppress their imagination. Armies travel back in time to conquer the worlds of the past, there to hold gladiatorial circuses. A man suffers the death penalty over and over for everyone else’s murders, so the victims’ families may have “closure” . . .
Ten episodes from a horrifying future, with the Decline and Fall of the American Empire as their backdrop.
Two karmic tempters dance through myriad different universes in search of ways to engineer the downfall of their enemies here. A rusted ferris wheel standing tall above the desert is a locus for barbarous religious executions. An old woman recalls her childhood loss of innocence about the world in which she lives . . .
In the great If This Goes On tradition, an impassioned assault on the seeds of destruction sown within our society. Searing prose conjures a nightmare vision you will never be able to forget.
A loner foraging in the graveyard of our civilization comes across what may be all that's left of human literature . . .
One of the most astonishing novels of the new century’s first decade, Leaving Fortusa is also one of its most urgent.
I've been writing the components of the novel here and there for the past three or four years, concerned about the ever-increasing pace of events. Even so, I couldn't have imagined how directly relevant it would be to real-life circumstances at the moment of publication. I wish it were not so.
Later: Oh, and here's the link to the book's page on my own website: http://johngrantpaulbarnett.com/Fortusa.html
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:05 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:06 pm (UTC)"May it sell lots."
Many thanks! Right now I'm gloomily hoping it'll sell any . . .
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:06 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-01 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:06 pm (UTC)I'll try.
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:07 pm (UTC)"I hope it does gangbusters!"
Many thanks! So do I . . .
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 03:12 pm (UTC)Many thanks, F!
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:24 pm (UTC)I'll get a hold of Vera to order one right now.
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Date: 2008-10-01 04:16 pm (UTC)That description sounds like TWENTY novels, brother. And they all sound brilliant.
Many thanks, J!
I'll get a hold of Vera to order one right now.
Er, preferably all TWENTY . . . :)
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 04:16 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-01 05:22 pm (UTC)(Isn't my kitty icon positively horrid? ;D)
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Date: 2008-10-01 05:26 pm (UTC)"I ordered Leaving Fortusa Monday from Amazon. Looking forward to reading it -- sounds fantastic!"
Double thanks! I definitely owe you a pint . . .
"(Isn't my kitty icon positively horrid? ;D)"
Er, yes.
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 04:17 pm (UTC)Many thanks, T!
something else for the TBR pile!
Hope so!
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Date: 2008-10-01 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 04:17 pm (UTC)Many thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-01 04:21 pm (UTC)Jean Marie
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Date: 2008-10-01 05:25 pm (UTC)Many thanks, JM!
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Date: 2008-10-01 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 05:24 pm (UTC)Sounds like a "must read"
Oh, it is, it is!
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Date: 2008-10-01 05:59 pm (UTC)And, um, please watch out for bears ....
Love, C.
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Date: 2008-10-01 07:01 pm (UTC)"Good for you!"
Many thanks, C!
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Date: 2008-10-01 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 10:46 pm (UTC)Many thanks, Selkster! Break out the daiquiris on my behalf!