If you like him doing less overblown, you'll probably like Air. The style is mostly quite spare and restrained, in that beautifully simple way some Japanese novelists write. I do love his crazy over-the-top endings, though. They're like that bit when everyone starts waltzing in the train station in The Fisher King.
I can sort of see where he was coming from with the SEX thing. It's the sort of thing I could imagine saying in desperation if my five other ideas had been rejected and I wanted to write a book, any book. And the book is flawed and a bit of a mess, but it's still got some great stuff in it.
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Re: Geoff Ryman
Date: 2007-05-10 09:44 pm (UTC)I can sort of see where he was coming from with the SEX thing. It's the sort of thing I could imagine saying in desperation if my five other ideas had been rejected and I wanted to write a book, any book. And the book is flawed and a bit of a mess, but it's still got some great stuff in it.