Hallucinatory, Dreamlike, Gritty and Naturalistic

Wed 3 Aug 2022 - Filed under: Not a Journal. | Posted by: Gavin

In the new issue of Locus Gary K. Wolfe reviews Robert Freeman Wexler’s The Silverberg Business who calls it “deeply weird” and goes on to say:

“It’s one of the mostly deeply weird novels I’ve read in some time, at times hallucinatory and dreamlike, at other times gritty and naturalistic. We’ve heard a lot in the past several years about genre-blending or ‘‘cross-genre’’ fiction, but Wexler starts out by combining two genres that seldom come up in these discussions: the western and the hard-boiled private eye mystery.”