Gaiman meets Barth in a novel about a cellphone network made out of whales

When we saw Corwin Ericson ’s Swell , just accepted for publication , identify as “ Neil Gaiman ’s American Gods meets John Barth ’s Giles Goatboy , ” we had to see out more . And what we discovered involve terrible technical crimes against whales .

Ericson , the former managing editor program of the Massachusetts Review , just deal his novel Swell to Dark Coast Press , a new upstart literary publisher in Seattle . The notice in Publishers Marketplace , which contained the Barth / Gaiman comparison , also described it as a “ humourous whodunit do on the sea-coast of Maine . ” We require Ericson ’s agent , Rachel Vogel , for more details , and she told us that the book concern the creation of the Whale connection , which consists of implanting cell phone signals into migrating whales . “ Better than an iphone , ” she says . This will “ revolutionize the cell phone industry but also menace to set longtime war native finish on edge , ” according to the blurb in Publishers Marketplace .

Vogel sent us a longer verbal description of the al-Qur’an , which does indeed sound weirdly Barthian with sunglasses of Gaiman :

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Life on the tiny Maine island of Bismuth restrain fix smaller for Orange Whippey . Money and dignity are scarce for islanders , and Orange sees trivial point in pursuing either . So he ’s unprepared for risky venture on a sidereal day that starts with getting stranded on Wreck Rock and finish with an overdose of imitative Panthera tigris egg and the acute priapism that results .

His worry mount as he find himself under the influence of rival whalers from the northerly Amerind countries of Europe : Snorri , the sozzled whaleherder who used to be marital to a bear ; and Waldena , a fierce harpoonist and Thor cult priestess . Snorri and Waldena , along with a pair of happily touristic Korean smuggled marketeers , embrangle Orange in an epical swindle imply drug smuggling , corporal bunco , and a pod of telecommuting giant . As they hop island and chase mythic whales , Orange test to play along but tip up strand , shipwreck , Shanghaied , thump and dose .

The Northern Indians desire to make account . The Koreans might open a layer and breakfast . Orange could use some cold beer and a duet of dry wind sleeve . They all want to make some easy money , but first they ’re work to have to find out what a certain giant has to say about it all .

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