A Journal of the Earthquake Year, by Howard Phillips
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A Journal of the Earthquake Year, by Howard Phillips
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Ultimately, Howard, as he always tended to do during this period, abandoned this project within a month of beginning it. However, we keep the opening entries available here, as an insight into the mysterious mind of our favourite drunken poet. After this failure, he left Silver Age Books for a while to rethink his approach, and turned to the production of music, a process which he then chronicled in his Saturation Point Saga, and so even out of this doomed experiment, some good pulp adventure eventually came. Read it here! (pdf) |
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This was to be
something of an experiment by Mr Phillips – a novel written in real time, day by
day, chronicling his adventures over an entire year, commencing with a small
earthquake that shook most of England during September 2002. As Howard has said,
the earthquake gave him a sense of cosmic dread, of how it might feel were the
Earth to suddenly shake apart, and create a second asteroid belt between Venus
and Mars.