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Claiming T-Mo

Eugen Bacon

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English
Meerkat Press
01 September 2019
In this lush interplanetary tale, Novic is an immortal Sayneth priest who flouts the conventions of a matriarchal society by choosing a name for his child. This act initiates chaos that splits the boy in two, unleashing a Jekyll-and-Hyde child upon the universe. Named T-Mo by his mother and Odysseus by his father, the story spans the boy's lifetime a from his early years with his mother Silhouette on planet Grovea to his travels to Earth where he meets and marries Salem, and together they bear a hybrid named Myra. The story unfolds through the eyes of these three distinctive women: Silhouette, Salem and Myra. As they confront their fears and navigate the treacherous paths to love and accept T-Mo/Odysseus and themselves, the darkness in Odysseus urges them to unbearable choices that threaten their very existence.

Publishers Weekly  ""Bacon explores a four-generation alien family saga in this gleeful, wacky debut.""  Full Review

Foreword Reviews  ""Claiming T-Mo is literate, imaginative, and provocative-a strong, even unforgettable, science fiction debut.""

Aurealis Magazine, Megan Kelly  ""Bacon enthralls readers with an innovative narrative that extols the potency of using poetic language in fiction.""  Full Review
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Imprint:   Meerkat Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 152mm
ISBN:   9781946154132
ISBN 10:   194615413X
Pages:   266
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

""Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist ment­ally re-engineered into creative writing. Shes the author of Claiming T-Mo by Meerkat Press and Writing Speculative Fiction by Red Globe Press, Macmillan. Eugens work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or com­mended in national and international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans.""

Reviews for Claiming T-Mo

""Prose with a rhythm that sets it apart. Come for the music, stay for the story."" Michael Pryor, author of Gap Year in Ghost Town and the ""Laws of Magic"" series ""As playful as it is thought-provoking, this is a work of dizzying originality and profound humanity."" Prof. Oz Hardwick, award-winning poet, author of Learning to Have Lost and The Lithium Codex "" Claiming T-Mo is a story of generations of women striving for fulfillment, but caught in webs of passion, magic and stardust. Eugen Bacon embraces the strange and estranged in this unanticipated contemporary trickster myth."" Emmet O'Cuana, author of fantastic comic Faraway ""Magical, violent, enthralling, it is a book that shines with its own specific aura, a somber and beautiful unique object, designed by a truly splendid writer. A must."" Seb Doubinsky, author of the ""City-States Cycle"" series ""Nothing is off limits in Claiming T-Mo with a literary eloquence and decadence, which transports the mundane into the magical, suspending time and place into a kaleidoscopic universe."" Mistress of Culture Vultures, https://www.weekendnotes.com/ ""Bacon explores a four-generation alien family saga in this gleeful, wacky debut."" Publishers Weekly (5 stars) ""[Bacon's] eloquent, elegant and lyrical prose gripped me from the very first sentence of this immensely passionate, moving and thought-provoking story ... [an] amazing, magical book."" Linda Hepworth, NB Magazine - UK ""Lush, hypnotic and absorbing. Bacon speaks in a language all her own, transporting us to an original, surreal, very real invented world."" Kaaron Warren, award-winning author of Tide of Stone and The Grief Hole


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