About the book:
The Wave
When μ returns home to find a sinister
screenplay has arrived from Brazil it propels him on a quest to track down
a character he believes to be called Ddunsel.
As μ’s search progresses it slowly becomes
entangled with two parallel tales – the stories of DOWN, a
troubled publisher, and David Bohm, a real-life quantum theoretician in
post-war São Paulo.
Just how far is it from London to Gotham
City? Or from Paul Auster to Pierre Menard for that matter? Some
people may think these sorts of questions are idle and ultimately meaningless
but this book is not for them.
The Wave combines
multiple narratives to blend metafiction, historical fiction and
screenplay as each of the characters struggles to understand what is
reality and what is fiction.
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Guest Post
I tend to jot down ideas all the time and
these can be anything from a relatively well-formed plot concept to a
half-finished sentence with no context whatsoever. There’s not exact length of
time it takes to start a project but at some point these ideas start to
coalesce around a particular theme and I find the notes I am writing are
getting longer and longer.
I generally have a good idea of the rough
form of a piece before I start writing it in earnest - whether it will be a
short story, novel, script etc – but sometimes that can change as I start
working on something.
Having trained as a physicist, I am
interested in how we as readers take information from the world around us and
construct an understanding of reality.
The way we combine and interpret not just
stories but mathematical theories, philosophies, face-to-face interactions or
beliefs in the supernatural to justify our actions in the world is a fascinating
subject and one I try to explore in my writing.
Writing is essentially this bizarre process
whereby we encode and decode hieroglyphs on a page and from this somehow this
hallucinatory mental space opens up.
As a writer I think the challenge is to try
to capture that luminous quality that great literature allows us to experience.
The Wave is out now from Dead Ink Books
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Author Bio
Lochlan Bloom is the author of the The
Wave as well as the short novellas Trade and The Open
Cage. The BBC Writersroom describes his writing as ‘unsettling and
compelling… vivid, taut and grimly effective work’. He has written for BBC
Radio, Litro Magazine, Porcelain Film, IronBox Films, EIU, H+ Magazine and
Calliope, the official publication of the Writers’ Special Interest Group (SIG)
of American Mensa, amongst others. Lochlan lives in London and does not have a
cat or a dog.
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