Saturday, September 13, 2025
Tangents
It appears that my book Tangents has finally been published. It's a novella that is actually a framed series of flash fictions. It was my thousandth story, written in Sri Lanka, India, Egypt and Aberystwyth, and finished three years ago. It is therefore the culmination of my Pandora's Bluff story cycle, which took 33 years in total to complete.
Tangents is a mosaic work consisting of exactly one hundred little fictions. The last of these fictions is a prequel to my oldest existing story, which dates from 1989 and was the first story in my cycle of one thousand texts. Tangents was supposed to be the last story I ever wrote, but it didn't work out that way.
Published in Brazil by Raphus Press in a limited edition, Tangents will soon also be available in low cost paperback and ebook editions. The publisher's description of the book runs in part as follows:
"In the brief narratives of this new work, Hughes's obsessions, humour, unique perceptions, and subversions of language come to the forefront. Tangents is yet another essential contribution from an author who is as significant as he is unconventional.
This book has a perfect square format (7.87 × 7.87 in.), 90 pages, with an exclusive, painfully handcrafted Japanese binding style. As usual, this new chapbook edition will be very scarce: only 30 copies, plus some (very few) private copies."
I will post information about the paperback and ebook editions here on my blog once the limited edition has sold out.
# posted by Rhys Hughes @ 12:35 PM 
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