4 books by Rhys Hughes
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Overview: A writer of Speculative Fiction who often uses fantasy and comedy to explore unusual concepts. Known for his original ideas, intricate plots, love of paradox, and entertaining wordplay.
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Captains Stupendous
So you want to know about the Faraway Brothers, do you? Born somewhere in Gascony, they were, in the 1880s, all three of them birthed at the same time from the same womb of the same mother. Grew up in the same household, they did too, eating the same food, reading the same books, counting the legs on the same spider because the family couldn’t afford a real clock; but later they went their separate ways. Scipio took to the sea, to ships, islands and women; Distanto took to the air, to balloons, islands and women; Neary, unluckiest of the triplets, remained on land, taking only to locomotives and stations and chastity. Many adventures they all had and often their paths crossed and sometimes they clashed and the consequences were always totally STUPENDOUS!
The Less Lonely Planet
A collection of linked tales about life, non-melodic sounds, cats, adventures, love, bread, circuses, pyramids, ducks, and all the sorts of things you might expect to happen after two worlds collide, one of those worlds being our own Earth, the other being the planet Happenstance, and the collision itself so gentle that the spheres fuse and merge into one lopsided and eventful mass.
Mirrors in the Deluge
Mirrors in the Deluge is a collection of 32 unrelated stories that take elements from fantasy, science fiction, horror and other genres and give them a lateral shift. Like much of Rhys’ work these quirky tales between them encompass parody, pastiche and puns. The fun, as ever, starts with the title of each story – gently leading an unsuspecting reader into preconceived ideas and expectations; expectations that are soon spun around, turned on their head (or other extremities), and pushed in an unexpected direction. Thus, even a saunter through the contents page is already a hugely entertaining experience and one more akin to savouring the hors d’oeuvres of a grand banquet than consulting a list of shortcuts into a literary tome. In fact, the gastronomic metaphor serves us well here; the courses on offer range from tantalising tuck to a foody’s feast, but never mere vittles – perhaps the way to enjoy this book is to digest one story, three times a day (four if you’re a halfling who needs second breakfast), rather than trying to gorge on all the available delights and delicacies at one sitting.
Orpheus on the Underground and Other Stories
Orpheus on the Underground is the new Rhys Hughes collection from Tartarus, containing fifteen previously unpublished stories (‘The Concise Picaresque Adventures of the Wanderlust Bridge’ first appeared in Strange Tales II). Rang¬ing from the ghostly, through horror to the entirely fantastic, Hughes’ marvellously inven¬tive tales steer the reader through the bizarre labyrinths of his unique talent for the strange.
In ‘The Upper Reaches’, two pilots discover a world beyond their mission, while the eponymous hero of ‘Orpheus on the Underground’ attempts to shoe-horn classical myth into the transport system of a modern metropolis. ‘Behind Every Ghost’ takes a conventional aphorism to its illogical limit, while ‘The Phantom Festival’ explores the history of music on various levels. In the ‘The Quixote Candidate’, a would-be film director is persuaded to give what may turn out to be an overly comprehensive interview.
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