"What a trip! What a ride! We used to write about the past, present, or future. Then we got into alternate time-lines and reality-tinkerers (of which Ed Morris is a major contender if not the champ). And then there was this book! Wow!
Reading There Was a Crooked Man is like listening to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Charles Ives and Frank Zappa simultaneously, while indulging in a serious absinthe high and daydreaming about Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Morris is either a documented genius or a certifiable madman. I’ll put my money on the former."
---Richard A. Lupoff
Author of Visions, Dreams, and The Emerald Cat Killer
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Excellent props!
Yep. Lupoff is a floating opal in a field of diamonds, a true gentleman and scholar in every sense of the old bromide. I heard him read his alien-astronauts-in-the-SW short 'Petroglyphs' at Lovecraftfest last year, and it was one of the most moving reads I have ever heard in my life. Due to the lighting in the room, he looked like a boy of eleven or twelve holding a flashlight up to his face around the campfire and telling Tales of the Unexplainable. I read some of his early shorts from a disturbingly early age, and came back to it when I found that absolutely lyrical tale of Aum Shinri Kyo mining drugs on other worlds, "Green Ice." Between that one and "The Turret", I was glad to be back...
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