The Digging Leviathan
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| The Digging Leviathan | |
 Cover of the first edition |
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| Author | James Blaylock |
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| Cover artist | Jim Gurney |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Publication date | August, 1984 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 276 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-441-14800-X |
| Followed by | Homunculus |
The Digging Leviathan is a science fiction novel written by James Blaylock. It was first published in 1984 by Ace Books. The source was Blaylock's first novel The Chinese Circus, which was never finished.[1]
[edit] Author's opinion
Blaylock says about the novel:
"By the time I was out of college a year I had a hundred thousand words of it, and it was evident that it could never be finished, because the plot funneled outward for the entire length of the book. A few years later a guy in Long Beach (up the coast) tied a bunch of helium balloons to an armchair and flew into the stratosphere (seriously) and the event was so inspirational that it seemed to me to suggest a focus for my long-abandoned book. I launched it again, immediately forgot about the guy with the balloons, and it turned into The Digging Leviathan."[1]
[edit] References
- ^ James Blaylock, The Man in the Moon, Subterranean Press, 2002, p. 229.
[edit] External links
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved on 2007-09-06.
- The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Retrieved on 2007-09-06.
- Fantastic Fiction
- Amazon.com
- Babbage Press - Reviews written by public readers of the book.
- Library Thing
