TITLE: Gig
A DOUBLE NOVELLA by James Lovegrove
PUBLICATION DATE: 2004
EDITION: Jacketed Hardcover
PRINT RUN: 500 signed
INTRODUCTION: Eric Brown
ISBN: 1902880838
SYNOPSIS:
Gig is a novel presented as two novellas: an odd way of telling a story, you might think. And yet, upon finishing the novellas, the reader becomes aware that there was really never any other way of accomplishing the bicameral parable that is the story of Kim/Mik. Gig had to be told as two novellas. As a single novel, with characters and chapters interleaved, the palindromic playfulness would have been missing, and the subtle, singularly distinctive atmosphere created in each story lost or diluted. And it made sense to publish them in the old Ace Double back-to-back format, too -- though anyone hoping for the clichéd Ace starship-and-alien derring-do will be disappointed. Lovegrove is a more subtle wordsmith than that. Ever the story-teller, he combines a sense of rarefied unease with a mystery that reverberates through time, even though the story takes place over the course of a single day.
