
Sad, tragic and disgusting all those things you’re not supposed to feel at once but do. It hadn’t survived birth or it hadn’t been allowed to survive birth.

In the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. Can you speak to your affinity for that idea or why you like that monster specifically?Ĭatling: It came really from seeing one. And of course, in the novel there’s a Cyclops. So in your art, the concept of the Cylops appears quite a bit. What was revealed was how someone who does not see himself as a novelist or a fantasy writer still succeeds at both.īritt: Okay. I spoke to the author/artist over the phone last week as he readied for his American book tour.

That is, if installation art contained “living” weapons, occasional magic, and at least one Cyclops. Catling has birthed a fantasy epic that reads almost more like the prose version of installation art. What happens when a high fantasy novel is created by a visual artist? Does that novel continue to be a fantasy novel or is it something else entirely? With the recent release of The Vorrh (Vintage/Random House) author B.

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