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 violent history in an evocative way"
While you’re waiting for the i09 Book Club discussion of Gun Machine to start, read their review.
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“A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre”
The Guardian [UK] reviews Gun Machine
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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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Skyway for the 1%
Thanks for reminding us that there are many ways to walk through Manhattan.
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“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.)
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Wikipedia: Gun Machine
Gun Machine has a Wikipedia entry!
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Siege calls this the Nightmare version of his Gun Machine trailer, and it’s not hard to see why. Keep the lights on.
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