Mike French
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- Galaxy Book Award nominee 2011 and Arthur C. Clarke nominee 2013
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- Mike French is an author and the owner and senior editor of the prestigious literary magazine, The View From Here which has been called many fine things since it started in 2007 including, "Attractive, informative, sparkling and useful" by Iain M. Banks and for having a “great passion and drive” by Booker shortlisted Tom McCarthy. Mike’s debut novel, The Ascent of Isaac Steward came out in 2011 with Cauliay Publishing and was nominated for The Galaxy National Book Awards which due to an unfortunate clerical error was awarded to Dawn French.
Born in Cornwall in 1967, Mike spent his childhood flipping between England and Scotland with a few years in between in Singapore. Splitting his time between his own writing, editing the magazine, running workshops, leading The Luton Writers' Group and working with atp media in Luton, Mike is married with three children and a growing number of pets. He currently lives in Luton in the UK and when not working watches Formula 1, eats Ben & Jerry's Phish Food and listens to Noah and the Whale.
Mike's second novel a dsytopian sci-fi called Blue Friday was released in 2012 by Elsewhen Press and was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke award. Convergence, his third book, was released in October 2013 from Elsewhen Press. The Ascent of Isaac Steward was re-released with Elsewhen Press in April 2013.
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This substantial softback is neither a normal text-only novel, nor a comic-book style graphic novel. It’s a blend of both, where Karl Brown’s crisp images are presented alongside Mike French’s sometimes surreal narrative. It can be read either as a series of short stories or as an interconnected arc telling a full-length tale. It is neither fish nor fowl. Yet it is in places quite brilliant.
In separate instalments of futuristic folklore, Mike French’s imagination runs riot with love, sex and death; science, space and time travel; religion, relationships and the reality of being an independent writer struggling to secure a book contract.
The collection encompasses the subtle and the strange, from steampunk to gleaming steel. Alongside moments of imaginative absurdity lurk sharp splinters of stark veracity. There’s a homage to every classic you might remember, from Jules Verne to Aleister Crowley to Philip K Dick.
Indeed, one of the most affecting chapters was – for me – the almost love-struck tribute to Blade Runner. Here, the Turing Test scene between Deckard and Rachel is replayed in reverse. Like the original it’s both chilling and beautiful, and had me looking around nervously for interloping origami unicorns…
The artwork beautifully compliments the story-telling. The images don’t compete with the text and nor do they attempt to illustrate, panel by panel, the events of each episode. Instead the striking line drawings convey the essence of the action and emotion without limiting the reader’s scope to individually interpret the text.
Emotionally intelligent, engaging and literate, An Android Awakes is graphic sci-fi for a mature audience prepared to be challenged as well as entertained. It also features the best frozen cat anecdote I’ve ever read.
There's more detail in the full review over at:
https://murdermayhemandmore.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/an-android-awakes-a-new-gho...… (mehr)