Coyote Kings: Praise from Reviewers and Authors

NOMINATIONS and COMMENDATIONS

FINALIST:

The Philip K. Dick Award (2004)
The Locus Best First Novel Award (2004)
The Compton-Crook Award (2004)

A TOP TEN BOOK OF 2004 FOR:

January Magazine, fiction
Barnes & Noble, SF&F
Amazon.com, SF&F
SF Site, SF&F, Editor's Choice

A LOCUS NOTABLE BOOK

THE AUTHORS SAY:

ROBERT J. SAWYER, Hugo and Nebula Award winner

"Every closet geek and every secret Trekker should read this book, but so
should everyone who enjoys a stylistic tour de force. The characters are
unforgettable, the slang infectious (I'll be calling chumps 'jimps' for the rest
of my life), and the whole thing is just incredibly charming. People say I'm
blatantly Canadian, but Minister Faust takes Canuck SF to a whole new
level. E-town, here I come!"

RICHARD MORGAN, Philip K. Dick Award winner

"Outstanding, like nothing I've ever read in the genre ... in fact [Minister
Faust has] pretty much invented [his] own genre.... Kept me going in hotel
rooms all over the US... totally original ... full of surprises ... caring and
heartfelt ... I'm kind of envious of what [he's] done here ... really edgy
unpleasantness ... up there with the best of them...."

NALO HOPKINSON, author of Brown Girl in the Ring and
Midnight Robber
"Off the freakin hook. Minister Faust writes a funky Afrofuturistic vision of
Canada (Edmonton, no less), and does so with heart, style, humour, and
attitude to spare."

TANANARIVE DUE, American Book Award-winning author of
The Good House and The Living Blood

"Incredibly imaginative and bulging with pop culture and political
references, this is a trip unlike anything you've ever read. Endlessly
entertaining."

STEVEN BARNES, author of Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart

"Minister Faust has a voice that has to be experienced to be believed. Once
you read Coyote Kings, you'll never forget it."

SHEREE THOMAS, editor of Dark Matter

"The Coyote Kings is outrageously hilarious and horrifying by turns. With a
sharply satiric intelligence and immense imagination, Minister Faust is an
exciting new voice in the field."

ERNEST DICKERSON, director, Juice, Demon Knight, Never Die
Alone, The Wire

"Minister Faust is Samuel Delaney, Harlan Ellison and Ishmael Reed all
rolled into one. His writing is biting, insightful and hugely entertaining."

THE CRITICS SAY:

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Minister Faust brings [The Coyote Kings] alive in a jumpy,
hold-nothing-back style…. Faust anatomizes [the Edmonton setting] with
the same loving care Joyce brought to early-20th-century Dublin…. Faust's
debut novel is a fresh and stylish entertainment."

KIRKUS REVIEWS and THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Minister Faust writes like Kevin Smith as if he'd grown up in an African
immigrant neighborhood-just as comic- and pop culture-obsessed but with
a dose of righteous ethnic minority fury.... A pair of lovable losers and an
impending apocalypse could make for a low-budget cult hit along the lines
of Donnie Darko by way of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back."

THE OTTAWA CITIZEN; NATIONAL POST; CANWEST NEWS
SERVICES and CITIZEN NEWS SERVICES

"The most exciting Canadian debut in decades."

THE MONTREAL GAZETTE

"Faust's novel explodes with exuberant ideas, creepy adventure, intense
emotions, and linguistic derring-do. Every page is pure pleasure."

JANUARY MAGAZINE

"Debut novelist, veteran media personality and accomplished poet Minister
Faust delivers an astonishing first effort with Coyote Kings. Faust's writing
is strong and his characterizations deep and fulfilling.... I feel quite
comfortable in saying that there's never been a book quite like this one
[which] fairly teems with dark corners… a stylish, accomplished first novel.
Alternately laugh-out-loud funny, deeply tender and downright chilling…
filled with pop culture references, modern philosophy and subtle thoughts
on the nature of human relationships. A first rate novel from all angles, one
can only hope it's the first of many."

ASIMOV MAGAZINE

"[A] debut novel that defies all expectations…. A very interesting new voice,
bringing perspectives well outside the usual assumptions of genre SF to his
work. Faust is obviously someone to watch."

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE

"[A] well-conceived story about redemption, friendship, and the possible
end of the world with heaping samples of politics and religion thrown in....
With an attention to detail and an eye for the absurd, it is as if Faust
channeled Mark Twain to write a Neal Stephenson novel.... The Coyote
Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad explodes off the page as an intelligent,
fun-filled pop-culture adventure."

BARNES & NOBLE

"[A] hip literary feast for aficionados of science fiction pop culture. Packed
with references to cheesy sci-fi movies, comic books, and TV shows... a
delightfully original novel.... Intensely imaginative, totally unpredictable,
and crammed with irreverent attitude, this novel is an unforgettable read."

BOOKLIST

"Interwoven narratives and fascinating characters with strong
voices…make for a fantastic contemporary adventure."

THE DENVER POST

"[R]azzle-dazzle style and attitude.... This delightful first novel has altered
my genre alignment to include Minister Faust."

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"The dense writing, the ponderings on the nature of reality and a complex
plot that all comes together at the end… will remind some readers of Neal
Stephenson [and] represents a sharp-edged new voice in the genre."

SCI-FI DIMENSIONS

"Every once in a while a book comes along that blows you away--not just
because of its basic story, but because of its style, its heart, its ability to tap
into a particular subcultural zeitgeist. Such a book is Minister Faust's The
Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad.... If Spike Lee, Quentin
Tarantino, William S. Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft were to collaborate on
a novel, the result might be The Coyote Kings. Its fusion of pop-culture and
fan-boy influences is truly inspired--and inspiring. This novel is epic, hip
and intensely filmic.... [P]ick up a copy. You'll be glad you did."

SF SITE.com

"Minister Faust has written what is undoubtedly the most fun, entertaining
novel of this year in science fiction… in a lively, musical style that is full of
the rhythm and rhymes of the street…. And fun is the operative word here.
There isn't much else in recent SF to compare this to…. Read it as soon as
you can."

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