The Fictional Man

The Fictional Man

"What's it like, not being real?"
In Hollywood, where last yearâ€™s stars are this yearâ€™s busboys, Fictionals are everywhere. Niles Golanâ€™s therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he canâ€™t stop staring at. Fictionals â€“ characters â€˜translatedâ€™ into living beings for movies and TV using cloning technology â€“ are a part of daily life in LA now. Sometimes the problem is knowing whoâ€™s real and whoâ€™s not.
Divorced, alcoholic and hanging on by a thread, Niles â€“ author of The Saladin Imperative: A Kurt Power Novel and many others â€“ has been hired to write a big-budget reboot of a classic movie. If he does this right, the studio might bring one of Nilesâ€™ own characters to life. Somewhere beneath the movie â€“ beneath the TV show it was inspired by, the childrenâ€™s book behind that and the story behind that â€“ is the kernel of something important. If he can just hold it together long enough...

â€œIntriguing and entertaining, at times not far short of a modern classic.â€
The SF Site

â€œFrom Episodes to The Player, Tinseltown has made a habit over the years of satirising its own superficial, self-obsessed ways. But none have exposed the cynical inner workings of the Hollywood movie-making machine quite as brilliantly as Al Ewingâ€™s The Fictional Man.â€
SFX

â€œThis is a solid piece of sci-fi that deals with the nature of self, and is worthy of comparison with Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Grant Morrisonâ€™s The Invisibles. Itâ€™s an effortless and rapid read, and works perfectly. Highly recommended.â€
Starburst

â€œOnce in a while I pick up a gem of a book that blows my frigginâ€™ mind and takes me places I did not even know existed... I assure you, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that The Fictional Man is just such a book. Ewing is a goddamn genius.â€
Den of Geek

Country	USA
Author	Al Ewing
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781849975391
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Solaris
Manufacturer	Solaris
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2013-05-05
Publisher	Solaris
ReleaseDate	2013-05-05
Studio	Solaris

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