Jason Gurley is the author of the novels Greatfall, The Man Who Ended the World, and the ongoing Movement series. His bestselling self-published novel Eleanor was acquired by Crown Publishing in the U.S., HarperCollins in the U.K., Editora Rocco in Brazil, Arunas in Turkey, and Heyne Verlag in Germany. His short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine and numerous anthologies, among them Loosed Upon the World and Help Fund My Robot Army!!! from editor John Joseph Adams. Gurley lives and writes in Oregon.One of five books that shaped him and Eleanor, as shared at the Harper Voyager blog:
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo IshiguroRead about another entry on the list.
... Ishiguro’s schoolchildren are shepherded into the world to serve a gruesome purpose. It wasn’t until 2013, when I tossed out adecade’s worth of work on Eleanor—and realized that her story would blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy—that these novels’ influence over my story became apparent.
Never Let Me Go is on Anne Charnock's list of five favorite books with fictitious works of art, Jeff Somers's top seven list of speculative works for those who think they hate speculative fiction, Esther Inglis-Arkell's list of nine great science fiction books for people who don't like science fiction, Sabrina Rojas Weiss's list of ten favorite boarding school novels, Allegra Frazier's top four list of great dystopian novels that made it to the big screen, James Browning's top ten list of boarding school books, Jason Allen Ashlock and Mink Choi's top ten list of tragic love stories, Allegra Frazier's list of seven characters whose jobs are worse than yours, Shani Boianjiu's list of five top novels about coming of age, Karen Thompson Walker's list of five top "What If?" books, Lloyd Shepherd's top ten list of weird histories, and John Mullan's lists of ten of the best men writing as women in literature and ten of the best sentences as titles.
The Page 69 Test: Eleanor.
My Book, The Movie: Eleanor.
Writers Read: Jason Gurley.
--Marshal Zeringue
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