The esteemed Library Journal reviewed The Apes of Wrath in their March 15 issue.
The Apes of Wrath. Tachyon. Mar. 2013. 384p.
ed. by Richard Klaw. ISBN 9781616960858. pap. $15.95. FANTASYBringing together such classic writers such as Gustav Flaubert (“Quidquid Volueris”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Edgar Rice Burroughs (“Tarzan’s First Love”), Franz Kafka (“A Report to an Academy”), and Robert E. Howard (“Red Shadows”) with modern fantasy and horror authors, editor Klaw, co-owner of Mojo Press, a noted publisher of graphic novels and themed anthologies, has assembled a collection of 13 stories revolving around the great apes and playing upon their similarities to and differences from humans. Including James P. Blaylock’s steampunk comedy of errors (“The Ape-Box Affair”) featuring a space-traveling ape, several bumbling Londoners, and a mysterious silver box or two, and Philip Jose Farmer’s continuation of a classic ape story (“After King Kong Fell”), this volume attests to literature and film’s fascination with our primate cousins. The foreward by Rupert Wyatt, director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and a pair of essays by Jess Nevins (“Apes in Literature”) and Rick Klaw (“Gorilla of Your Dreams: A Brief History of Simian Cinema”) make this more than just a curious short-story collection. VERDICT Aficionados of apes in literature and film should enjoy this gathering of new and old stories.
Overall a good review. But why do people have some much trouble spelling “foreword?”
In other Apes news, I was interviewed at inReads and RevolutionSF.
RevSF also reviewed the book and is hosting a contest to win a free copy, signed by me!
The skinny:
You want Apes of Wrath. RevolutionSF will give it to three of you. All you have to do is write more ape stories..
Your own super-short ape story. That’s what we want . . . IN EIGHTY WORDS OR LESS. The first King Kong flick came out 80 years ago; so that’s why we’re doing 80.
(Copyright-wise it will still belong to you, since ape stories make you wealthy. Proven fact.)
Make it ape sci-fi, ape comedy, ape fantasy, or ape romance. What we want are apes.
The TOP THREE favorite stories (as judged by Apes of Wrath editor Rick Klaw) will win the book!
Send your ape story in email to revolutionsfjoe@gmail.com.
