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...
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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?
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.
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“A spiky, well-told conspiracy thriller … With Gun Machine, Warren Ellis...”
– Gracias, San Francisco Chronicle.
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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.
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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.
February 2013
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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.
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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.
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Warren Ellis Has All The Answers →
…to your burning questions. Ask away on i09 for the next hour.
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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.
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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.
“A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre”
– The Guardian [UK] reviews Gun Machine
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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.
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“Ellis’ imagination is dark as a bat cave.”
– Chicago Tribune reviews Gun Machine
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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.)
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Wikipedia: Gun Machine →
Gun Machine has a Wikipedia entry!
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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.
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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
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WatchAnother trailer for Gun Machine. It’s shot by Clayton Cubitt (aka Siege) with music by Meredith Yayanos.
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“Gun Machine is sick, slick and very funny… . Warren Ellis, a graphic...”
– The Telegraph [UK]. Thanks, UK.
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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.”
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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
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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.
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“The hunter’s methodology, also containing elements of both past and present, is...”
– Alan Cranis, Bookgasm.com
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Start Reading Gun Machine →
An excerpt from chapter two of Gun Machine is there for the taking.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.”
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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.
December 2012
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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.
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