Lewis Shiner's GLIMPSES

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on August 2, 2010 at 9:01pm

This is entirely new to me. What the story with this book?

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Permalink Reply by James A. Gardner on August 4, 2010 at 12:46pm

The overarching story in GLIMPSES is about this electronics repairman, Ray, who's nearing age 40, and his efforts to reconcile his love life and his feelings about his father.

He manages to escape his reality through, miraculously, escaping into some of the most legendary events in rock and roll history. He intervenes in the lives of Jim Morrison, The Beatles, Hendrix, and Brian Wilson.

Shiner writes some of the best music-related fiction of anyone. His SAY GOODBYE is also great in this regard, and in general. George Pelacanos called that one, "the Citizen Kane" of rock and roll novels.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on August 4, 2010 at 1:01pm

Sounds very cool. Gonna have to poke around the local library for that one....

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Permalink Reply by James A. Gardner on August 5, 2010 at 11:27am

It is extremely cool, in my IMO. You may want to wait for the reprint, coming soon.
It's billed as a Definitive Edition.

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Permalink Reply by James A. Gardner on October 12, 2010 at 12:43pm

As seen on boing boing, not only is GLIMPSES now back in print, Lewis Shiner has made it available for FREE download from his Fiction Liberation Front:

His FLF has a ton of great, free writing by Shiner:

Enjoy! And then come back here, and we'll discuss!

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