Thursday, July 09, 2026

 

The Percolated Stars Returns


My first published novel, out of print for more than twenty years, has just been republished by Mission Creep Press.
 
THE PERCOLATED STARS is a decadent adventure with cosmic overtones. Although it was originally published by a very small press who did no promo for it at all, somehow people still talk about this book. I have often been told it's my best novel.
 
"An astro-caffeine romp and perverted metaphysical fantasy set on the planets of a miniature solar system in the center of the hollow Earth. When a comet cracks open our world and allows these planets to spill out into the greater cosmos, only one man can exploit the catastrophe fully, the demented astronomer and coffee merchant Batavus Droogstoppel... but Batavus is now two men, a circumstance that constantly continues to complicate the chaos..."

To mark the occasion of its republication, the ebook edition is FREE until July 12th.
 
The novel is rather more gothic and transgressive than the kind of fiction I write these days. If you like Lautréamont and Baudelaire for the darkness, but also Jules Verne and Ray Cummings for the gusto, you might also like this book. I think that Philip José Farmer probably comes closest to blending the genres most effectively. The Percolated Stars was most definitely influenced by Philip José Farmer.
 
This is the second book to be issued by Mission Creep Press. More will follow very soon. 

Because The Percolated Stars is partly set in outer space, which is an unusual location in my fiction, I have decided to make another of my books, also set in outer space, free for a free days, as a companionable act. Therefore ROBOTS IN LOVE is a FREE ebook until July 12th.

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