How come the only person I ever see breaking out into song on the Toronto Subway is that tone-deaf, crazy lady who bellows along with her walkman? Have you seen her? She’s like the new Zanta.
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
"Ryan Oakley kicks all kinds of butt. This is the story Philip K. Dick would have written if he'd lived to today: over-the-top, incisively satirical, and packing a major wallop. The prose sings even as the story makes you squirm; underneath all the slickness and sickness there's a passionate human heart, beating so damn fast it warps space. Oakley is a supernova about to blow – a major new talent ready to burst on the scene – and with this, his first novel, he'll light up the entire sky."
-- Robert J. Sawyer
Hugo Award-winning author of HOMINDS
Nebula Award-winning author of THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT
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"Reading Ryan Oakley's writing is like being lit-jacked. Once Oakley's forty-five caliber prose is aimed between your eyes, you'll never forget it."
--Minister Faust
Phillip K. Dick Prize Shortlisted author of THE COYOTE KINGS OF THE SPACE-AGE BACHELOR PAD
The Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award, Special Citation (Runner Up) Phillip K. Dick Award author of FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN
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"Oakley isn't so much concerned with what science fiction has been, but rather where it can go. And, unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't just write from his head, but from his gut. His work somehow manages to be both unsettling and deeply absorbing."
--Jeff Lemire
Eisner-nominated Graphic novelist of the ESSEX COUNTY TRILOGY,
THE NOBODY,
SWEET TOOTH from Vertigo.
THE ATOM and the upcoming SUPERBOY series for DC Comics
4 comments
Anonymous
March 19, 2007 at 7:41 pm (UTC -5)
WOW
That’s a subway ride I wish I was on. That’s some good talent . Takes those white folks some time to loosen up tho.
ryan
March 20, 2007 at 2:12 am (UTC -5)
Fucking white people. Don’t even get me started.
mona lisa
March 22, 2007 at 7:22 pm (UTC -5)
^that’s funny^. you crazy fool! that was hott though. i think i might be that crazy lady with her walkman.
ryan
March 22, 2007 at 7:44 pm (UTC -5)
I’m a funny man ML. A funny, funny man. Hilarious.