Review: End of the World Blues

Just ducking in long enough to draw your attention to my review of Grimwood's latest at SF Weekly.Jon Courtenay Grimwood is an incredibly intelligent and interesting writer. Nothing in End of the World Blues works against that assessment, but ultimately he seems to be treading water here, even as I have to give him high marks for trying something different. Making mind-blowing concepts seem ordinary can be an extraordinary achievement, but when it removes the sense of wonder, and when disparate elements don't quite seem to come together, the result is a novel more easily admired than loved.