Paragaea
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Thanks, David.
ON CLEVERNESS AND A LACK OF HUMILITY
The text of this novel abounds with references, allusions, and “Easter eggs,” which I've included primarily to amuse myself. But I'm forced to admit that some small part of me (okay, perhaps not so small) wishes nothing more than for someone to come along and point out precisely how clever I've been.
Most things in Paragaea are more than what they seem, sometimes being several things at once. Anyone interested in cataloguing them all would be advised to do so while the author is still living, and available to confirm that you've got them all. I'm more than happy to answer any and all questions. (I'll start you off with an easy one: the sculpture outside Benu's temple, over which Hieronymus and Balam disagree, is a direct reference to the story from which the notion of Benu's phoenixlike resurrection is borrowed.)
Chris Roberson
Austin, TX
CHRIS ROBERSON's short fiction can be found in the anthologies Live without a Net (Roc, 2003), The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Ace, 2004), Tales of the Shadowmen, Vols. 1 and 2 (Black Coat Press, 2005 and 2006), FutureShocks (Roc, 2006), and Forbidden Planets (Daw, 2006), and in the pages of Asimov's, Postscripts, and Subterranean Magazine. His novels include Here, There & Everywhere (Pyr, 2005) and The Voyage of Night Shining White (PS Publishing, 2006), and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol. 1 (MonkeyBrain Books, November 2005). Roberson has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and twice for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”).
Along with business partner and spouse Allison Baker, Roberson is the co-owner of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies. On February 19, 2004, the couple became the proud parents of a daughter, Georgia Rose Roberson. The family resides in Austin, Texas.
Visit him on the Web at www.chrisroberson.net.