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    Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
    Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
    Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
    Audiobook6 hours

    Spaceman Blues: A Love Song

    Written by Brian Francis Slattery

    Narrated by Robert Ramirez

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    This debut novel is hailed by sci-fi luminary Harlan Ellison as a "mad tornado of words." After Manuel Rodrigo de GuzmAn GonzAlez disappears, his lover Wendell Apogee searches through New York City's "Darktown" to find him. Along the way, he encounters everything from black market dealers to alien assassins. "Slattery's debut is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the immigrant experience ... Pynchon crossed with Steinbeck, painted by DalI ..." -Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 22, 2008
    ISBN9781436133760
    Spaceman Blues: A Love Song
    Author

    Brian Francis Slattery

    Brian Francis Slattery was born and raised in upstate New York. He is an editor for the U.S. Institute of Peace and the New Haven Review. He is the author of the novels Spaceman Blues, Liberation and Lost Everything, and is also a musician. He lives near New Haven, CT.

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    • 2/5
      rambling and aimless most of the time. the descriptive punch took forever to get to and would often lead to my own mind wandering off and even forgetting who was “thinking” or speaking. i wasn’t even sure who he was writing about in certain places because of the way pronouns were used.

      i certainly do not enjoy the writing style but some things about the story and characters are keeping me going. little bits and pieces, glimpses of something more, something that might not be what we expect, something surreal even. i’m hoping to find out that the out-of-focus passages in this book are on purpose and are supposed to reflect some inner plight of the protagonist(s) rather than just poor writing style.

      ...Nope.

      I cared for none of the characters (when i knew which one was being written about) and saw no point in the story. Wendell the protagonist becomes some sort of superhero who is able to take on alien badasses and calls himself Captain Spaceman. Somehow. We're never sure how, just that he trained with the "Ciphers." haven't a clue. Never will. Not horrible by a long shot but not my cup of tea.
    • 3/5
      Fun little hard-boiled mystery sci-fi yarn about life and an alien apocalypse. There are sublime moments of elevated writing in here. Will definitely read his next.
    • 4/5
      A surreal kaleidoscope of moments woven into a story of apocalyptic intrigue. Stattery's freshman novel manages to take a patchwork of highly surreal story elements and narrate the end of the world, love lost, longing and betrayal.The single thread that ties this story together is the search for Manuel Rodrigo de Guzmán González. The searches by both his love lorn partner Wendell Apogee, and the crafty detectives Salmon and Trout bring along with them a cavalcade of unique and interesting characters, including the four green indestructible horsemen acting as the harbingers of the apocalypse.I would not describe this book so much as science fiction as future fiction. The main element within being the potential state of the social mechanisms of the world rather than science that enables it. It is much like a Doctorow book in this fashion, as well as in its fast and intensely paced story. Though I dare say it is much more psychedelically infused than Doctorow's works.