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April 2013

2 posts

Jen's Book Thoughts Reviews the Gun Machine Audio → jensbookthoughts.com

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 stories through all varieties of delivery and Gun Machine is a superb crime novel, but I’m especially glad I listened to Gun Machine. This is a top-notch audiobook and a sensational listening experience.

Did you know Reg E. Cathey reads the Gun Machine audiobook? Sample it here.

Apr 15, 20132 notes

#Gun Machine #Warren Ellis #Reg E Cathy #Audiobooks

The Examiner Reviews GUN MACHINE → examiner.com

“Worth reading if you like your detectives sharp and smart and like your killers mean and diabolical.”

WHO DOESN’T?

Apr 3, 20135 notes

#Lit #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis #Detective

March 2013

4 posts

Warren Ellis' Notebook: Okay. Someone asked me how I feel about writing fiction in a world... → warrenellis.tumblr.com

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 21, 20133,934 notes

#Fiction #Lit

“A spiky, well-told conspiracy thriller … With Gun Machine, Warren Ellis established himself as a first-rate crime novelist with a distinctive voice and a knack for propulsive plotting.” —Gracias, San Francisco Chronicle.

Mar 18, 20134 notes

#lit #gun machine #warren ellis #san francisco chronicle #book review

“One of the reasons why Warren Ellis’s dystopian work is such a joy to read: the reader can see that what the author is describing isn’t just inevitable, it’s already happening.” —The future is here! 20SomethingReads reviews Gun Machine.

Mar 11, 201310 notes

#Dystopia #Warren Ellis #Gun Machine

“Every cylinder of Gun Machine gets loaded with something for both casual readers and casehardened fans of the detective genre. The action, characters, structure, and syntax travel with the speed of photons and connect with the unsentimental impact of hollow point rounds. Until the very last page, Ellis pulls the trigger on each and every one—sometimes taking his time to aim, sometimes shooting from the hip—but always hitting his mark.” —The Brooklyn Rail reviews Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine. Thanks, Brooklyn.

Mar 4, 201311 notes

#Warren Ellis #Gun Machine #Brooklyn Rail #Lit

February 2013

8 posts

Feb 26, 201328 notes

“It’s that last bit that explains why we have guns. Not because of their simple availability or lethality—but because there is a pleasure to the rituals of gun ownership and the act of discharging weapons and the stories we tell about them. And I mean we: whether or not you own one, there are at least 270 million in the United States, probably more—one for you and one for me and one for every child. They’re going to be with us for a long time. They’re part of who we are now.” —Not a Gun Machine review, but a thinkpiece by Bookforum on America’s gun culture. Thought you all might find it interesting.

Feb 22, 20136 notes

#gun culture #bookforum #gun guys

Feb 20, 2013105 notes

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 14, 201359 notes

#The Morton Report #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis #Interview #comics #lit #writing

Warren Ellis Has All The Answers → io9.com

…to your burning questions. Ask away on i09 for the next hour.

Feb 11, 20134 notes

#warren ellis #i09 #gun machine #book club

The io9 Book Club is in session! → io9.com

Have you read Gun Machine? Jump into i09’s book discussion. Warren Ellis will be commenting upon the thread on Monday.

Feb 6, 20135 notes

#book club #warren ellis #GUN MACHINE #i09

"An ambitious story that grapples with New York's violent history in an evocative way" → io9.com

While you’re waiting for the i09 Book Club discussion of Gun Machine to start, read their review.

Feb 5, 20138 notes

#i09 #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis #New York City

“A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre” —

The Guardian [UK] reviews Gun Machine

Feb 1, 201310 notes

January 2013

31 posts

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 31, 201361 notes

#Ian Rankin #Warren Ellis #America

Jan 30, 201365 notes

“Ellis’ imagination is dark as a bat cave.” —Chicago Tribune reviews Gun Machine

Jan 28, 201310 notes

#Chicago Tribune #Gun Machine #Book Review #Warren Ellis

“America does have its own weird ritual landscape and deep time. We just tend to think of it as only a couple of hundred years old. And even then, those few hundred years are pretty compressed stuff. So it actually began there, really, in a determination to write something that evoked antiquitous American strangeness.” —Warren Ellis answering “Where did Gun Machine begin for you?” in an interview with Suicide Girls. (Don’t worry, it’s SFW.)

Jan 24, 201320 notes

#Suicide Girls #Warren Ellis #America

Wikipedia: Gun Machine → en.wikipedia.org

Gun Machine has a Wikipedia entry!

Jan 22, 20139 notes

#official

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Jan 22, 201316 notes

#Siege #Gun Machine #Clayton Cubitt #Video #Book trailer

“Warren Ellis is my messiah.” —So begins this ecstatic review of Gun Machine and Warren Ellis’s oeuvre over at MTV Geek.

Jan 18, 201313 notes

#MTV Geek #Lit #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis

io9 exclusive: the "nightmare" edition of the Gun Machine trailer → io9.com

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 18, 201310 notes

#Video #Trailer #Lit #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis #Clayton Cubitt #Siege

Jan 18, 20138 notes

Jan 17, 20135 notes

#Clayton Cubitt #feather #hunter #Gun Machine #Siege

Jan 16, 201397 notes

#Video #Trailer #Book Trailer #Clayton Cubitt #Gun Machine

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Jan 15, 201364 notes

#Clayton Cubitt #Gun Machine #video #short film #Siege #Meredith Yayanos

Jan 15, 201360 notes

#Information #Code #Gun Machine

“Gun Machine is sick, slick and very funny… . Warren Ellis, a graphic novelist, doesn’t need pictures to create his gripping, grave new world.” —

The Telegraph [UK]. Thanks, UK.

Jan 14, 20138 notes

#Book review

Bought off: how crime fiction lost the plot - Comment - Voices - The Independent → independent.co.uk

Says Christopher Fowler, “The most audacious new crime novel I’ve read lately is Gun Machine by Warren Ellis.”

Jan 14, 201330 notes

#crime fiction

Gun Machine

An excerpt from the Gun Machine audiobook, which is read by Reg E. Cathey.

Jan 11, 2013136 notes

#audio #gun machine #Reg E Cathy

“I’m presuming it’s still this deep-seated neurosis that the British are going to come back. I get that you have bears and things, but I don’t think you need assault rifles or rocket launchers to scare them off.” —Warren Ellis on America’s gun culture. You must read the rest of the interview on latimes.com

Jan 11, 201370 notes

#Guns #Gun Machine

i09 Book Club → io9.com

Don’t want to read Gun Machine alone? Join the i09 Book Club, which will be discussing the book on February 5th.

Jan 10, 201330 notes

#Book club #i09

Jan 10, 2013184 notes

#quote #technology

Jan 9, 201361 notes

#cities

“The hunter’s methodology, also containing elements of both past and present, is unlike that of any serial killer previously encountered… . Even though it’s early, Gun Machine is already one of the most impressive works of this new year.” —Alan Cranis, Bookgasm.com

Jan 8, 20137 notes

Start Reading Gun Machine → mulhollandbooks.com

An excerpt from chapter two of Gun Machine is there for the taking.

Jan 8, 20138 notes

#Excerpt #Warren Ellis #Gun Machine

Jan 7, 2013121 notes

#Molly Crabapple #Gun Machine #People We Love

Nerdist Podcast: Warren Ellis → nerdist.com

Ellis talks about Gun Machine, where he gets his ideas, and social media. His segment starts around five-and-a-half minutes in.

Jan 7, 2013229 notes

#Gun Machine #Nerdist #podcast #audio

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Jan 7, 201379 notes

#Wil Wheaton #Ben Templesmith #Illustration #Video #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis

“A perfectly flawless crime book with a feral glint in its eye” —The Independent UK reviews Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine

Jan 7, 20138 notes

#book review #gun machine

Wil Wheaton Narrates The Trailer For Warren Ellis' 'Gun Machine' → geek-news.mtv.com

Check out the trailer for Gun Machine on MTV Geek. It’s a thing of hypnotic, illustrated beauty.

Jan 3, 201331 notes

#video #trailer #Wil Wheaton #Warren Ellis #Gun Machine #Ben Templesmith #illustration

"There is one New York and there are innumerable New Yorks"

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.

Jan 3, 20137 notes

#Gun Machine #New York City #Warren Ellis #Book Review

The New York Times reviews Gun Machine by Warren Ellis → nytimes.com

“The book’s real achievement is to create a world that is so bleakly and comically out of whack.”

Jan 2, 201357 notes

#The New York Times #Gun Machine #Warren Ellis

Jan 2, 20139 notes

#Gun Machine #Scavenger hunt #Manhattan #Warren Ellis

“Gun Machine is a novel that never stops to draw breath. It’s a monster of a book, bowel-looseningly scary in places, darkly uproarious in others, and remorseless as the killer who hunts in its pages. Ellis never disappoints, but this is particularly good, even by the high standards of a Warren Ellis tale.” —

Boing Boing reviews Gun Machine.

FYI: Gun Machine is now on sale. Happy new year, indeed.

Jan 2, 201391 notes

#Boing Boing #Gun Machine #Book review