""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.""
""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