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Andrez discusses The Tobacco-Stained Sky @ Booked Podcast |
Booked brings you another in our series of three author interviews. This one is a gigantic, just under two hour monster featuring Andrez Bergen, Jason Donnelly and returning for his third appearance, J David Osborne. So much masturbation is discussed, it’s almost shocking. It’s a great collection of discussions about recent or upcoming books, many of which we now really want to review for the podcast. HAVE A LISTEN HERE |
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Hard-Boiled Wit @ Book Reviews by Elizabeth A. White |
“To further the world-building exercise, there’s a new anthology coming out in September through Another Sky Press. This one’s called The Tobacco-Stained Sky, and is basically a fresh look at our near-future, post-apocalyptic and hardboiled Melbourne through the eyes of a whole crew of other writers and comic book artists. I also contributed stories there, further fleshing out characters from Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, something I continued in the short-story collection The Condimental Op that was published in July via Perfect Edge Books.” READ MORE HERE. |
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Gordon Highland is in ‘The Tobacco-Stained Sky’ |
“A couple of years ago, I read Andrez Bergen’s excellent post-apocalyptic sci-noir novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat and began a correspondence with the author, interviewing him for The Velvet and keeping in touch all friendly-like, as we do. A few books later, he re-approached Goat‘s publisher, Another Sky Press, about releasing an anthology of stories by other authors that he compiled (along with co-editor Guy Salvidge), all set within the well-developed universe of that first novel. I immediately jumped on board as a contributor, taking it as a challenge to write my very first story in that genre.” |
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Andrez Bergen interview @ Atomic Anxiety |
This time around I’m happy to welcome Andrez Bergen to the Anxiety. Andrez is the author of THE CONDIMENTAL OP (available here), 100 YEARS OF VICISSITUDE, TOBACCO-STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT, and this fall will see the release of WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA?. You can check out all of Andrez’s available works at his Amazon author’s page. |
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Andrez Bergen interview: Chin Wag at the Slaughterhouse |
“Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat was my first novel, published in April last year through Another Sky Press in Portland in the U.S. It’s a mixture of noir detective story with dystopian sci-fi, as much influenced by Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick as it is by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The thing took half my life to cobble together, and I’m not kidding here.” |
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Interview with Andrez @ The Six-Degree Conspiracy |
“In the first-person narrative of his first novel, his character struggles to fit the black fedora of Harry Lime, of Graham Greene’s The Third Man. And while the narrator nervously tries to describe himself through the movie’s black-and-white images, he jells into shape through his street-smart voice, describing the skank-life in Melbourne’s far off rotting future.” |
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Interview with Andrez @ Today’s Paige |
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Interview with Andrez @ The Atheist’s Quill |
INTERVIEW: JUNE 2012 Atheist’s Point of View (APOV): When did your love of all-things noir start? Bergen: I grew up on the cinematic version of the genre. My parents and their friends were always watching it, and I think I saw The Third Man for the first time when I was in primary school. Reading-wise, I really started to enjoy books by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in my 20s, which was the time I explored a more international take on noir by filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa. I’ve always had this affinity. I think I’ve seen the Humphrey Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon at least a hundred times. Really. |
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Andrez Bergen interview by Julie Morrigan |
“Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is sci-fi-lite, at least according to one of my mates — which surprised me since I believed it safely slotted into the sci-fi genre and I didn’t know there was a style called sci-fi-lite. Probably he was making it up. “Most people are now telling that TSMG is far more oriented toward noir than science fiction, which I guess is Read more… |
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Andrez Bergen interview @ neo-noir site The Velvet |
“I’m chuffed you like that angle, since it came later on in the development of the story. Floyd, for me, always was a bit of a cynical last-hero-standing, a kind of Charlton Heston type circa Planet of the Apes or The Omega Man. Read more… |