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Of Whimsies and Noubles -- George Kelley's review
Blogger George Kelley reviews "Of Whimsies and Noubles," the third Luff Imbry novella published by PS Publishing last year. He gives it a "Grade A" and says: "As with all of Matthew Hughes Vancian stories, I was delighted by the cleverness and wit of the storytelling."
Unfortunately for those who would like to read it, PS produces only limited editions and the ordinary hardcover release of "Whimsies" is now sold out. Only the signed edition is available. If it's any consolation, I'm now 18,000 words into a new Imbry story that will go into an omnibus edition of the three novellas that will be out, again in two limited editions, probably later this year.
But if you haven't read my Imbry stories -- he's a corpulent forger, art thief, and confidence man of Old Earth in its penultimate age -- I've collected all of them (including the first two PS novellas) as The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories in ebook and POD paperback formats. You can get them most places, including my own web store.
Unfortunately for those who would like to read it, PS produces only limited editions and the ordinary hardcover release of "Whimsies" is now sold out. Only the signed edition is available. If it's any consolation, I'm now 18,000 words into a new Imbry story that will go into an omnibus edition of the three novellas that will be out, again in two limited editions, probably later this year.
But if you haven't read my Imbry stories -- he's a corpulent forger, art thief, and confidence man of Old Earth in its penultimate age -- I've collected all of them (including the first two PS novellas) as The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories in ebook and POD paperback formats. You can get them most places, including my own web store.
New Imbry novel turned in
I've turned in "Epiphanies," a new Luff Imbry novella (24,000 words), to PS Publishing. It will go into an omnibus of the previous three novellas to be published in two limited editions sometime this year.
Imbry started out as a supporting character in Black Brillion (Tor, 2004), where he was a high-stakes forger and confidence man forcibly inducted into the Archonate Bureau of Scrutiny and assigned to work with Baro Harkless, a strange but brilliant young scroot. I actually killed him off in the first draft, but my editor, David G. Hartwell, counseled me against it.
Later on, when PS editor Nick Gevers asked me for a story, I decided to revive Luff and produced "The Farouche Assemblage. " More stories followed, in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and then the three PS limited edition novellas.
"Epiphanies" brings Imbry's career to the point at which he encounters Baro Harkless in Black Brillion.
Imbry started out as a supporting character in Black Brillion (Tor, 2004), where he was a high-stakes forger and confidence man forcibly inducted into the Archonate Bureau of Scrutiny and assigned to work with Baro Harkless, a strange but brilliant young scroot. I actually killed him off in the first draft, but my editor, David G. Hartwell, counseled me against it.
Later on, when PS editor Nick Gevers asked me for a story, I decided to revive Luff and produced "The Farouche Assemblage. " More stories followed, in Interzone and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and then the three PS limited edition novellas.
"Epiphanies" brings Imbry's career to the point at which he encounters Baro Harkless in Black Brillion.
