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talking of reviews . . .
Sep. 6th, 2009 06:42 pm. . . I've just learnt that over the past couple of weeks D.F. Lewis has been publishing a story-by-story review of Andrew Hook's British Fantasy Award-winning 2003 anthology The Alsiso Project, in which I was lucky enough to make an appearance. Lewis's aim has been to see if a Gestalt might emerge from the stories -- all of which were written to the same title, which had originated as a typo, "alsiso", by writer Marion Arnott. A certain amount of cheating was allowed, probably the most extravagant corruption being "ALS 150" (Antony Mann). My own story was called "AlsisO", and in any reprinted version will probably be called "Alsis . . . O".
Whatever . . . Lewis is astonishingly kind about my contribution:
A tale of an I-protagonist/narrator who was last night someone's dream but cannot now die, i.e. a narrator who is an Alsis (acronym for which is spelt out in the story), eventually leading to that same dream's Otherwise. [. . .] This story [. . .] is a compulsive, brilliantly written narrative tussling with the spectrum of Realities and Proustian selfness and more. [. . .] Bravo!
