paulmelko ([info]paulmelko) wrote,
@ 2008-04-02 07:04:00
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More Than You Needed to Know About Paul
A follow-up to this review of Ten Sigmas and Other Unlikelihoods is this interview all about me.

Patrick also reports that Talebones #36 is in the mail. In that issue is my story "Cankerman's Shower." Cankerman's Twin is my current novel project and begins sometime after the end of "Cankerman's Shower." My big idea for these stories is that Cankerman is a misanthropic minor lord of a future galactic empire, making his way from place to place working cons and being a general ass. As you might expect, these are awful fun to write and, I hope, awful fun to read.


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[info]loquacious_lad
2008-04-02 11:35 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, Cankerman!

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My Short Review of Cankerman's Shower
[info]lyngperry
2008-05-10 07:08 pm UTC (link)
“The Cankerman Shower” by Paul Melko whimsically captures the campy Bat Durston drama (and many of the sexist stereotypes) of the ’50s space westerns that we’ve grown to love. Mr. Cankerman, however, as the name implies, is rotten to the core, and yet loveable in a Han Solo sort of way. As a smuggler, he’s one step ahead of the law and takes advantage of every opportunity – to the chagrin and detriment of his partners. Thus his eventual comeuppance is well deserved. And yet…I still wanted to cheer for this scoundrel. And that’s what makes the story fun. This well-written tale gives us the satisfaction of having it both ways. While the reader may enjoy watching Cankerman squirm, you know (and secretly wish) that he’ll scrabble to safety. And he does. Now if only he’d learn his lesson, quit his philandering ways, and settle into a respectable line of work. But then, we wouldn’t get to see this rascal pulp hero star in an exciting new series of fiction.

(I'm reading Talebones #36 now and will eventually get all the stories reviewed. Congrats on this one, btw, Lyn)

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