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ATDrake · 03-09-2012, 10:43 PM

I haven't read this one, but the sample reads promisingly enough that I think I'm going to buy it while it's still on sale, and the author has brief but respectable print credentials and has works out from quality small sf/fantasy specialty presses.

Circus of the Grand Design by Robert Freeman Wexler (ISFDB entry) is apparently one of his "surrealist" literary-type fantasy works, as Wikipedia describes his style. I found this while trawling the Read an E-Book Week Smashwords sale, and it's 25% off the regular $2.99 through March 10th, and the re-publisher is fellow MR member author & editor Keith Brooke via his Infinity Plus imprint (this was originally released by Prime Books in 2004 according to ISFDB).

When Lewis rents a vacation house on Long Island he doesn’t expect to end up on a crazy circus train ride to nowhere. Travelling through strange and wonderful lands, he becomes lost amongst mad acrobats, sexy elephant riders, a magical mechanical horse, a giant woman and her savage, prehistoric rodent bears, an egotistical juggler, and...a fertility goddess who takes exceptional interest in him.

The longer descriptive blurb @ SW quotes specific praise from Howard Waldrop, Publisher's Weekly, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Locus Magazine among others, and there's a Ray Bradbury comparison in the tags and the Booklist quote.

ETA: The author has also written a short entitled The Adventures of Philip Schuyler and the Dapper Marrionette in the City of the Limbless Octopi. Okay, I'm definitely buying his novel, if only because he's clearly got imagination and also to encourage releasing a Smashwords-available collection of his shorts if he's got more like that.

Dr. Drib · 03-10-2012, 01:29 PM

Thanks for the information. It sounded familiar, so I checked Amazon here

http://www.amazon.com/Circus-Grand-D...1404054&sr=1-1

and realized I had added it to my Wish List.

It looks VERY interesting to me.

Amazon has it for $2.99, as well (without the 25% discount, of course).

Don

mikaelalind · 03-10-2012, 02:58 PM

If someone is willing to take the time to convert it to an more e-reader friendly format, S.L Viehl/ Lynn Viehl offers Night of the Chameleon a paranormal novel featuring an travelling carnival for free as a .pdf. I read it, and enjoyed it before I got my Sony.

03-09-2012, 10:43 PM	#16
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	I haven't read this one, but the sample reads promisingly enough that I think I'm going to buy it while it's still on sale, and the author has brief but respectable print credentials and has works out from quality small sf/fantasy specialty presses. Circus of the Grand Design by Robert Freeman Wexler (ISFDB entry) is apparently one of his "surrealist" literary-type fantasy works, as Wikipedia describes his style. I found this while trawling the Read an E-Book Week Smashwords sale, and it's 25% off the regular $2.99 through March 10th, and the re-publisher is fellow MR member author & editor Keith Brooke via his Infinity Plus imprint (this was originally released by Prime Books in 2004 according to ISFDB). When Lewis rents a vacation house on Long Island he doesn’t expect to end up on a crazy circus train ride to nowhere. Travelling through strange and wonderful lands, he becomes lost amongst mad acrobats, sexy elephant riders, a magical mechanical horse, a giant woman and her savage, prehistoric rodent bears, an egotistical juggler, and...a fertility goddess who takes exceptional interest in him. The longer descriptive blurb @ SW quotes specific praise from Howard Waldrop, Publisher's Weekly, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Locus Magazine among others, and there's a Ray Bradbury comparison in the tags and the Booklist quote. ETA: The author has also written a short entitled The Adventures of Philip Schuyler and the Dapper Marrionette in the City of the Limbless Octopi. Okay, I'm definitely buying his novel, if only because he's clearly got imagination and also to encourage releasing a Smashwords-available collection of his shorts if he's got more like that. Last edited by ATDrake; 03-09-2012 at 10:49 PM. Reason: My ghod, it's full of "what the fhtagn?!"

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03-10-2012, 01:29 PM	#17
Dr. Drib Grand Sorcerer Posts: 45,462 Karma: 59592133 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour	Thanks for the information. It sounded familiar, so I checked Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Circus-Grand-D...1404054&sr=1-1 and realized I had added it to my Wish List. It looks VERY interesting to me. Amazon has it for $2.99, as well (without the 25% discount, of course). Don

03-10-2012, 02:58 PM	#18
mikaelalind Fanatic Posts: 590 Karma: 788068 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sweden Device: Sony PRS 505, Cybook Odessey	If someone is willing to take the time to convert it to an more e-reader friendly format, S.L Viehl/ Lynn Viehl offers Night of the Chameleon a paranormal novel featuring an travelling carnival for free as a .pdf. I read it, and enjoyed it before I got my Sony.

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