Warren Ellis Twists My Dendrites
When I read his first novel, Crooked Little Vein, there was a brief but very memorable appearance by a consulting detective called Falconer.
Oh did that character make Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stir in his peace!
What I didn’t know until today was this bit revealed by Ellis in a MySpace Bulletin:
Those of you who read my novel CROOKED LITTLE VEIN will hopefully remember Falconer, the weird “detective” whom Mike McGill meets on a plane. Falconer actually started out as a character whom I wrote flash-fictions around as warm-up exercises. If you never read my LiveJournal, then you probably never saw Falconer.
And there are six jaw-dropping stories!
Falconer
The Return Of Falconer
Springtime For Falconer
Falconer In Love
The Joy Of Falconer
Falconer Forever
The more I consider the strange subject matter Warren Ellis is interested in and writes about, the more I think he is akin to Lafcadio Hearn, who also specialized in the peculiar.
Warren Ellis website
Warren Ellis MySpace
Mike Cane 2008 
April 10, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Dunno, Mike, I read CROOKED LITTLE VEIN and found it quite unremarkable. How about Craig Clevenger? There’s a guy who cultivates off-beat fiction like an illegal grow op. And is there a better short story writer in America than George Saunders? Well, maybe Jim Shepard (I’m reading his collection LIKE YOU’D UNDERSTAND, ANYWAY and it’s STUNNING)…
April 10, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Unremarkable?
You, you’re a troublemaker. You know now I have to try Clevenger. NYPL has two of his books, both of which have titles my brain tells me it’s seen before, but damned if I can tell where or when.
As if I don’t have a big enough backlog as it is!
I generally stay away from short stories. Ellis’s six were short-short. I can deal with those.
April 10, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Cliff is a bigger troublemaker than I thought!
He posted his novel on his blog and didn’t even tell me, despite my asking him to so I could do a post.