Sunday, November 14, 2021

Five SFF books about road trips

R.W.W. Greene is a New Hampshire USA writer with an MA in Fine Arts, which he exorcises in dive bars and coffee shops. He is a frequent panelist at the Boskone Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Boston, and his work has been in Stupefying Stories, Daily Science Fiction, New Myths, and Jersey Devil Press, among others. Greene is a past board member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. He keeps bees, collects typewriters, and lives with writer/artist spouse Brenda and two cats.

Greene's novels The Light Years (2020) and Twenty-Five to Life (2021) are published by Angry Robot.

At Tor.com he tagged five favorite SFF books about road trips, including:
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

A family of werewolves lives a nomadic life in the American south, avoiding contact with a world that hates and fears them. The main character, a teen, hasn’t done the change-into-a-wolf thing yet, and uses his travel time to write a manual on werewolf life, which includes such useful tidbits as ‘empty the trash before you change, because some garbage is not digestible.’ Excellent book. I can’t recall if I ordered this list one-to-five best or five-to-one best, but Mongrels is up there somewhere.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Mongrels is among Mallory O'Meara's ten great horror books for wimps.

--Marshal Zeringue