Vonnegutian

• “Palmer's third novel combines hard SF – the quantum physics of teleportation – with sardonic, Vonnegutian satire, and the result is a gloriously irreverent, violent and often funny tale of murder, genocide and unrequited love.”

  The Guardian: Dark Matter, Clowns at Midnight, Damage Time and Version 43 - reviews

• “Book reviewers have categorized your previous novels as wild Vonnegutian satires full of fantastical and even surrealistic events.”

  James Morrow discusses The Last Witchfinder

• “Now I don't mean to suggest that our current moment is anything like this Vonnegutian nightmare.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Laermer: The Last Decade & Mediocrity: A Look Ahead

• “To this end, I have put together the following proposed slate of what I am calling Vonnegutian Immersions, designed to bring out the inner Vonnegut in all of us ...”

  GreenCine Daily: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007.

• “There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.”

  Newsweek: Vonnegut's Last Stand

• “This is beyond apocalyptic -- it's downright Vonnegutian.”

  Posthuman Blues

• “And indeed, I suspect, in Light, which is rather more Vonnegutian, especially at the redemptive end, than she has allowed herself to realise.”

  Is There Someone at the End of This Rope? A Long Day's Struggle With M. John Harrison

• “And if the cover art foreshadows the style of this gargantuan cotton-candy novel, the title poised between horse and skyline suggests the allusive, striving nature of the themes to come: Shakespeare's romance of resurrection will be only the most conspicuous swatch in a patchwork of Renaissance fairy tale, Victorian saga, Vonnegutian fable, and dreamy surrealism in the Latin American manner.”

  Small Expectations

• “The Black Veil," found him deeply enmeshed in French literary theory - a loyal reader might expect a book of this heft to amount to a dense experimental fiction or a Vonnegutian exercise in wild satire.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The fabulist style is established right at the start with the tale of clockmaker Gateau (Elias Koteas), who expresses his wish to turn back time by constructing a clock that runs in reverse, initiating some Vonnegutian backwards war footage.”

  DVD Times

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