Spaceman Blues: A Love Song (edition 2007)

The Apocalypse has a broken heart. ( )

Fun little hard-boiled mystery sci-fi yarn about life and an alien apocalypse. There are sublime moments of elevated writing in here. Will definitely read his next. ( )

That was kind of mess... i'm not even sure what the book was about or even how it ended... did they find Manuel or not? Or was there ever a Manuel to begin with? You gotta spell it out for me sometimes... i like nice neat packages ( )

A surreal kaleidoscope of moments woven into a story of apocalyptic intrigue. Stattery's freshman novel manages to take a patchwork of highly surreal story elements and narrate the end of the world, love lost, longing and betrayal.

The single thread that ties this story together is the search for Manuel Rodrigo de Guzmán González. The searches by both his love lorn partner Wendell Apogee, and the crafty detectives Salmon and Trout bring along with them a cavalcade of unique and interesting characters, including the four green indestructible horsemen acting as the harbingers of the apocalypse.

I would not describe this book so much as science fiction as future fiction. The main element within being the potential state of the social mechanisms of the world rather than science that enables it. It is much like a Doctorow book in this fashion, as well as in its fast and intensely paced story. Though I dare say it is much more psychedelically infused than Doctorow's works. ( )

http://books.kenficara.com/2008/03/spaceman_blues_brian_francis_s.html ( )