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Jen's Book Thoughts Reviews the Gun Machine Audio

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:50:11 -0400

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 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.

The Examiner Reviews GUN MACHINE

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:11:09 -0400

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?

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

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:29:07 -0400

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

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.

"A spiky, well-told conspiracy thriller … With Gun Machine, Warren Ellis established himself as..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:30:39 -0400

“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.

"One of the reasons why Warren Ellis’s dystopian work is such a joy to read: the reader can see that..."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:36:38 -0400

“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.

"Every cylinder of Gun Machine gets loaded with something for both casual readers and casehardened..."

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:25:31 -0500

“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.

warrenellis: Ways I work. I like to have a Bluetooth earpiece,...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:02:55 -0500

warrenellis:

Ways I work. I like to have a Bluetooth earpiece, paired with phone, iPad and laptop. It lets me listen to podcasts (I subscribe to a lot), take phone calls and do (voice-only) Skype without manually switching or being pinned to the chair, while keeping one ear open, as I prefer. I had a Jawbone Era Shadowbox, but it’s been degrading for a while, and may actually have fallen out of my pocket recently, so I just replaced it with a Bose. Which should hopefully stay in my ear better than the Jawbone ever did.

This is how the magic happens.

"It’s that last bit that explains why we have guns. Not because of their simple availability or..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:34:00 -0500

“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.

warrenellis: (via ‘Ecco the Dolphin’ as a Psychedelic...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:59:05 -0500

warrenellis:

(via ‘Ecco the Dolphin’ as a Psychedelic Screensaver | Motherboard)

The Morton Report Interviews Warren Ellis

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:49:10 -0500

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.

Warren Ellis Has All The Answers

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:08:03 -0500

Warren Ellis Has All The Answers:

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

The io9 Book Club is in session!

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:26:10 -0500

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.

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

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:19:57 -0500

"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.

"A magnificently entertaining gun held to the head of the crime thriller genre"

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:01:12 -0500

Warren Ellis and Ian Rankin in Conversation

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:23:55 -0500

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.

claytoncubitt: Skyway for the 1% Thanks for reminding us that...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:16:35 -0500

claytoncubitt:

Skyway for the 1%

Thanks for reminding us that there are many ways to walk through Manhattan.

"Ellis’ imagination is dark as a bat cave."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:41:24 -0500

“Ellis’ imagination is dark as a bat cave.”

- Chicago Tribune reviews Gun Machine

"America does have its own weird ritual landscape and deep time. We just tend to think of it as only..."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:39:50 -0500

“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.)

Wikipedia: Gun Machine

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:40:53 -0500

Wikipedia: Gun Machine:

Gun Machine has a Wikipedia entry!

Siege calls this the Nightmare version of his Gun Machine...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:21:01 -0500

Siege calls this the Nightmare version of his Gun Machine trailer, and it’s not hard to see why. Keep the lights on.