April 2013
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Jen's Book Thoughts Reviews the Gun Machine Audio →
The unabridged version of Gun Machine is narrated by Reg E. Cathey and I don’t think they could have picked a better narrator for this gritty, hard boiled police procedural… . Ellis has populated Gun Machine with distinctively rich characters, characters I hope we will see again. Cathey extends the uniqueness of each character through his dynamic aural representations. I experience...
Apr 15th
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The Examiner Reviews GUN MACHINE →
“Worth reading if you like your detectives sharp and smart and like your killers mean and diabolical.” WHO DOESN’T?
Apr 3rd
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March 2013
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Warren Ellis' Notebook: Okay. Someone asked me how... →
warrenellis: Fiction speaks to people.  Even fiction like mine acts to tell someone, somewhere, that they’re not alone. You want tangible, social benefits to writing fiction?  There are people walking around today because other people wrote words that spoke to them.  That’ll do.
Mar 21st
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“A spiky, well-told conspiracy thriller … With Gun Machine, Warren Ellis...”
– Gracias, San Francisco Chronicle.
Mar 18th
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“One of the reasons why Warren Ellis’s dystopian work is such a joy to read: the...”
– The future is here! 20SomethingReads reviews Gun Machine.
Mar 11th
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“Every cylinder of Gun Machine gets loaded with something for both casual readers...”
– The Brooklyn Rail reviews Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine. Thanks, Brooklyn.
Mar 4th
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February 2013
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Feb 26th
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“It’s that last bit that explains why we have guns. Not because of their...”
– Not a Gun Machine review, but a thinkpiece by Bookforum on America’s gun culture. Thought you all might find it interesting.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 20th
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The Morton Report Interviews Warren Ellis
The Morton Report: One of the things that really struck me about this particular book was a strong sense of place as a living, breathing thing, a historical organism composed of both natural and man-made artifacts and creatures.
Warren Ellis: I was after that sense of standing on the surface of deep time, and history reaching up into the present world. Of American cities, I thought that could be done most successfully with New York.
The Morton Report: How different is working in prose from working on comics for you?
Warren Ellis: Remember, what you see in a comic is just the visible part of the writing. Beneath that, I’m describing every panel on every page in enough detail for the artist to understand what I’m looking for. In a book, however, I’m trying to evoke the image, so that it lives in the reader’s mind—which, perhaps counter-intuitively, requires less specific detail. Broad strokes, texture and atmosphere as opposed to blueprint specificity.
Feb 14th
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Warren Ellis Has All The Answers →
…to your burning questions. Ask away on i09 for the next hour.
Feb 11th
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The io9 Book Club is in session! →
Have you read Gun Machine? Jump into i09’s book discussion. Warren Ellis will be commenting upon the thread on Monday.
Feb 6th
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"An ambitious story that grapples with New York's... →
While you’re waiting for the i09 Book Club discussion of Gun Machine to start, read their review.
Feb 5th
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“A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre”
– The Guardian [UK] reviews Gun Machine Purchase the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | iBookstore | Indiebound | Other
Feb 1st
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January 2013
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Warren Ellis and Ian Rankin in Conversation
Rankin: I live on Edinburgh and set my work there. You live in England but tend to set your stories in the US. Why is that?
Ellis: I do find the country endlessly fascinating. It’s like a vast cultural oven. You put that many people in one place, with that many resources and that much freedom to elevate or destroy themselves, and then put it under pressure, and all kinds of weird and wonderful chemical events will happen. If there was a God, then America is something he would do if his television was broken: a constant source of entertainment.
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“Ellis’ imagination is dark as a bat cave.”
– Chicago Tribune reviews Gun Machine
Jan 28th
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“America does have its own weird ritual landscape and deep time. We just tend to...”
– Warren Ellis answering “Where did Gun Machine begin for you?” in an interview with Suicide Girls. (Don’t worry, it’s SFW.)
Jan 24th
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Wikipedia: Gun Machine →
Gun Machine has a Wikipedia entry!
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“Warren Ellis is my messiah.”
– So begins this ecstatic review of Gun Machine and Warren Ellis’s oeuvre over at MTV Geek.
Jan 18th
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io9 exclusive: the "nightmare" edition of the Gun... →
Director: Siege, aka Clayton Cubitt Editing, Compositing, Effects: Jeff Dragon Soundtrack: Meredith Yayanos Grooming: Katie Wedlund Wardrobe: Signe Yberg The Hunter: Joe Heaps Nelson Additional audio effects: CGEffex via Freesound
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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WatchWatch
Another trailer for Gun Machine. It’s shot by Clayton Cubitt (aka Siege) with music by Meredith Yayanos. Purchase the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | iBookstore | Indiebound | Other
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“Gun Machine is sick, slick and very funny… . Warren Ellis, a graphic...”
– The Telegraph [UK]. Thanks, UK. Purchase the book: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | iBookstore | Indiebound | Other
Jan 14th
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Bought off: how crime fiction lost the plot -... →
Says Christopher Fowler, “The most audacious new crime novel I’ve read lately is Gun Machine by Warren Ellis.”
Jan 14th
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Jan 11th
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“I’m presuming it’s still this deep-seated neurosis that the British...”
– Warren Ellis on America’s gun culture. You must read the rest of the interview on latimes.com
Jan 11th
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i09 Book Club →
Don’t want to read Gun Machine alone? Join the i09 Book Club, which will be discussing the book on February 5th.
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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“The hunter’s methodology, also containing elements of both past and present, is...”
– Alan Cranis, Bookgasm.com
Jan 8th
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Start Reading Gun Machine →
An excerpt from chapter two of Gun Machine is there for the taking.
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Nerdist Podcast: Warren Ellis →
Ellis talks about Gun Machine, where he gets his ideas, and social media. His segment starts around five-and-a-half minutes in.
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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“A perfectly flawless crime book with a feral glint in its eye”
– The Independent UK reviews Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine
Jan 7th
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Wil Wheaton Narrates The Trailer For Warren Ellis'... →
Check out the trailer for Gun Machine on MTV Geek. It’s a thing of hypnotic, illustrated beauty.
Jan 3rd
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"There is one New York and there are innumerable...
The New York Journal of Books reviews Gun Machine: A clever, clever story evoking the earthy darkness of the island’s long lost forests and illuminating it with a fiber optic flicker… . Here is a book anyone interested in the Big Apple should read—it is not only a hunt for an unforgettable killer, but a quest to exhume the many New Yorks that have evaded our eye. Purchase it now: Amazon...
Jan 3rd
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The New York Times reviews Gun Machine by Warren... →
“The book’s real achievement is to create a world that is so bleakly and comically out of whack.” Purchase it now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | iBookstore | Indiebound | Other
Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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“Gun Machine is a novel that never stops to draw breath. It’s a monster of...”
– Boing Boing reviews Gun Machine. FYI: Gun Machine is now on sale. Happy new year, indeed.
Jan 2nd
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December 2012
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Dec 20th
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Warren Ellis's 2012 Jam Odyssey →
If you’re enjoying Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine playlist, I recommend joining him on this audio-visual retrospective.
Dec 20th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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