Iām just glad to see some love for Armageddon Rag - one of my favorite books of all time. It blows away George R R Martinās work on Game of Thrones.
Now I will have to check out Glimpses.
And then thereās Lewis Shiner - Slam. And Iāve been trying to find a copy of āDeserted Cities of the Heartā for ages. I made the mistake of lending my copy to someone way back in the 90s.
Great book.
Does anyone know whether Shiner ever wrote anything about the real-life āSmileā after it came out in 2004? If so, that could be fascinatingā¦ he wrote so extensively about the fictional version in Glimpses and it would be great to know what he thought about the Wilson/Wondermints version.
Two books I had nearly forgotten about. Thanks for the chance to reread āGlimpsesā and to rediscover Shiner. There used to be a music column in the Austin Chronicle called āDancing About Architectureā and I used to know where that title came from. It truly must be hard to novelize rock n roll as most times it is tried it is just cringe-worthy. Case in point, Anne Rice and āLestatā. One rock n roll novel that works pretty well is Skipp and Spectorās āThe Screamā. It doesnāt hurt that it was one of the early splatter-punk novels either.
A fantastic book and audiobook. (Rudnickiās also done a fantastic audio edition of āSlamā and (with a full cast including Gabrielle de Cuir) Shinerās āCollected Storiesā. Also, Cory, I have apparently not spammed you enough to check out The AudioBookaneers, because I did pick āGlimpsesā as the best new audiobook of 2011 
(And āSlamā was an honorable mention in our 2013 wrap-up.)
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