The Mitchell Mega-Mix
Right, straight after I talked about David Mitchell’s key position as a non-genre writer, he writes his most genre work ever. So this is what his SF novel looks like to me:
- A Hot Spell: Nina Allan
- Myrrrh Is Mine: David Mitchell
- New Year’s Day: Mitchell again. Ah yes, the only good bit of the book is the one he repeats.
- The Wedding Bash: Iain Banks
- Crispin Hersey’s Lonely Planet: Adam Roberts (although he won’t thank me).
- An Horologist’s Labyrinth: Nick Harkaway
- Sheep’s Head: Ken MacLeod
Everything Is Nice 
Hah! And I *don’t* thank you that the link is bust.
adamrobertswriter
21 September 2014 at 19:59
Oops, fixed now.
This section annoyed me both for the comedy Amis protagonist but also they way it repeats The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish and so pins the novel as a pale copy of Cloud Atlas. Something a little like the highly effective treatment of Hugo Lamb did emerge at the end though. But no, as one SF satirist to another, have a word.
Martin
22 September 2014 at 11:47
Nina Allan might not thank me either but she has the book’s measure. Still waiting for Nick Harkaway’s views.
Martin
22 September 2014 at 20:03