time snake and superclown by vincent king

King went to art school and I thought of this when encountering tedious levels of detail in some of scenes as well as a reference to 'Cubistic' art. As in the aforementioned films, practically nothing makes sense until you are nearly at the end of the story. In structure the book is a sort of Sci-Fi equivalent of twist-thriller movies like Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo or Brad Anderson's The Machinist, with perhaps some David Lynch elements thrown in. first contact with the alien, man's evolution away from violence, etc.)Ī large part of it consists of chasing an elusive and entrancing female character - male gaze activated. The setting in particular defies definition - perhaps I could call it a kind of non-linear holographic earth.īut the structure of the thing is actually relatively conventional, as is the prose, as are many of the motifs and themes employed. Ok, the main character does get his face turned into a clown mask and many of the scenes and transitions are bizarre and dreamlike. I was expecting something totally crazy.īut, Time Snake and Superclown is not actually totally weird. This book has a reputation on the internet.Īfter it was called 'the most demented book of all time' and 'one of the weirdest SF books ever'.

ISBN 9780312096182.Probably a minor classic, but certainly not for everyone.

Vincent King at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

and a tendency towards downbeat conclusions.' Bibliography Novels John Clute, writing in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, said that his later novels 'tend to combine elements of epic and grotesque sf adventure with a characteristically English darkness of emotional colouring. His most successful book was his novel Candy Man (1971), which went through a number of editions in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries, and was a selection of the UK Science Fiction Book Club in 1972.

Some of his work has been translated into French, Spanish and German. His short fiction was published in John Carnell's New Writings in SF series. King's novels were published by Gollancz, Tandem, Sphere Books and Futura Publications in England, and Ballantine Books in the United States. Rex Thomas Vinson (Octo– May 2000 ) was an English art teacher, artist and science fiction author active in writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who wrote under the pen name of Vincent King.

Time snake and superclown by vincent king