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The Collected Martin Millar
Collected for the first time in one volume, three of novelist Martin Millars fast and funny explorations of riots, poets, fairies, and New Yorks Lower East Side. "A rising cult star of Britains literary underground.Millars punk-comic vision sets off sparks."
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537 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 1998
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Martin Millar
50 books514 followersMartin Millar is a critically acclaimed Scottish writer from Glasgow, now resident in London. He also writes the Thraxas series of fantasy novels under the pseudonym Martin Scott.
The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact this has on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feeling that the boundary between real life and the supernatural is not very thick. Most of them are set in Brixton, Millar's one-time place of residence. Many are at least semi-autobiographical, and Love and Peace with Melody Paradise and Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me both feature Millar himself as a character.
As Martin Scott his Thraxas novels are a fusion of traditional high fantasy and pulp noir thrillers.
In 2000, he won the World Fantasy Award for best novel for Thraxas.
The novels he writes as Martin Millar dwell on urban decay and British sub-cultures, and the impact this has on a range of characters, both realistic and supernatural. There are elements of magical realism, and the feeling that the boundary between real life and the supernatural is not very thick. Most of them are set in Brixton, Millar's one-time place of residence. Many are at least semi-autobiographical, and Love and Peace with Melody Paradise and Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me both feature Millar himself as a character.
As Martin Scott his Thraxas novels are a fusion of traditional high fantasy and pulp noir thrillers.
In 2000, he won the World Fantasy Award for best novel for Thraxas.
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March 21, 2017
One of my favourite British writers. If Vonnegut had been a Scottish punk living in brixton during the time of Thatcher this is the sort of work he'd have produced. Also check out his amazing Thraxas series, just rereleased.
June 7, 2013
Martin Millar is a modern god. This book is a great introduction to his work. It contains The Good Fairies of New York which is one of his best stories. Imaginative and hilarious it is a modern classic. You fall in love with the characters and miss them when the story is finished. This is one of my favorite books of all time.
August 9, 2011
Three stories stylistically sexy, dirty, punk-rock, and British.
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