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Maxwell Volume

mxv@books.tryptophonic.com

Joined 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Musician & lapsed fiction writer. I grew up on a healthy diet of visionary, experimental and new wave fiction - Moorcock, Carter, Peake, Sinclair, Burroughs, Joyce, Ballard etc (most of which has heavily influenced my music). Nowadays my reading tastes float freely between literary, fantasy, philosophy and (nowadays quite a bit of) nature writing.

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John Tottenham: Service (2025, Semiotexte/Smart Art)

A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world.

I'd be very surprised if this book isn't my favourite book of the year - even though it was the first book I read this year.

started reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)

Steven Erikson: Gardens of the Moon (Bantam)

Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the …

It's been over ten years since I started reading Malazan and I rather fancy starting the whole damn thing from the beginning. Here we go!