Mark von Schlegell's stories and essays appear regularly in underground newspapers, zines, art books, and amateurist periodicals the world over. Venusia, his first novel, was honor-listed for the 2007 James M. Tiptree Jr. Prize in science fiction.
[ Mercury Station] harks back to the heyday of such New Wave giants
as J. G. Ballard, as well as such glorious eccentrics as Ursula K.
Le Guin, John Calvin Batchelor, and Philip K. Dick, while shooting
off stylistic fireworks reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov. [...] von
Schlegell addresses the realities of a grim future with grace,
humor, and intellectual honesty.
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