Sunday, November 14, 2021

Five top SFF books about road trips

R.W.W. Greene is a New Hampshire USA writer with an MA in Fine Arts, which he exorcises in dive bars and coffee shops. He is a frequent panelist at the Boskone Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Boston, and his work has been in Stupefying Stories, Daily Science Fiction, New Myths, and Jersey Devil Press, among others. Greene is a past board member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. He keeps bees, collects typewriters, and lives with writer/artist spouse Brenda and two cats.

Greene's novels The Light Years (2020) and Twenty-Five to Life (2021) are published by Angry Robot.

At Tor.com he tagged five favorite SFF books about road trips, including:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The mysterious Mr. Wednesday has an agenda, but his driver Shadow, an ex-con mourning a dead wife, is just along for the ride… at first. Dig around on the Internet and you can find itineraries and maps made so you can recreate Shadow’s own fumbling journey into godhood, starting with the House on the Rock in Wisconsin to Cairo, Illinois to Lebanon, Kansas to the World Tree near Blacksburg, Virginia to Rock City, Georgia. Be careful, the road is full of ancient conmen, sensitive deities, and leprechauns looking for a fight.
Read about another entry on the list.

American Gods is among Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough's top ten books about the Vikings, Jeff Somers's ten sci-fi & fantasy books that take on norse mythology and ten top SFF stories lousy with giant spiders, Josh Ritter's six favorite books that invoke the supernatural, and John T. Ottinger's top 12 science fiction and fantasy novels and stories that are uniquely American.

--Marshal Zeringue