Robin Wyatt Dunn: 15 books

Robin Wyatt Dunn, always the poet of beauty and imagination, offers us a work of splendid topography. A dream, as poetry often simulates, is present within this work. Dunn travels the language of the Earth, its peopled history, to remind us (if we read carefully) that art and life are equal synonyms....

"Debudaderrah takes a concrete hard science future and layers it with myth and spirits and other core elements of humanity; those symbolic leaps that separate us from logic machines ... This is SF poetry with a sense of mystery, of actions unseen like dark planets whose gravitational pulls...

Who is a man married to, when he is married to a woman? And what if they get divorced, but only one of them remembers? The Black King of Kalfour catalogues one man's quest for his woman across multiple dimensions. "I have no idea what this is or where this is going, but I like the way...

"Dunn immediately captures a reader’s attention with a burka-wearing 12-year-old" -- Publishers WeeklyJulia is fighting for her country. She is twelve years old. On the outside, a burqa. Underneath, satellite communications hardware linked to her AI in orbit.Her mission: overthrow...

In ancient times, a warrior leads his family on an adventure of survival.

The city has been burning for months. Robert needs a new job, and a new dog, and a new wife. But he's not going to get any of those things. Instead he is sucked into a series of parallel universes, chasing the job, dog, and wife he already has.

Long ago lived Ing, who gave us Inglish.Eighty generations later, Ing's descendant Hrothbert fights down beneath the surface of another Earth, hunting the Wight, a supernatural being who holds the secret of his people, the Ingaevones. But when Hrothbert encounters the Hrudu Man, a nearly-immortal...

Colonel Stierlitz, a ghostly remnant of Semyonov's literary character, comes to life in a dream Moscow, tasked with defending his Motherland against all external threats.A zombie Stalin is haunting the city, and Stierlitz's boss, Semyonov, is treating him strangely. A mission to Los...

The Night Lands are what you see.The Night Lands are what you eat.The Night Lands are what you breathe.Come in to the Night Lands, and we will show you something different,from your holiday smile, or your most beautiful nightmare,we'll show you the Redoubt, inside your brain:"A...

Robert, a 30-something independent filmmaker in Los Angeles, is hearing voices in his head. Alice Hershlug, a Jewish movie star who recently won the Academy Award, is slowly torturing him via The Grapevine, a kind of mental telephone.Hoovey Weinerschniztel, a movie producer in New York City,...

John Dee is a magician in Los Angeles. He is going insane. My Name Is Dee is a ruthless, tightly plotted noir that shies away from easy explanations and easily defined heroes and villains. It is a novel for the educated reader who enjoys noir action, intrigue and dark romance, for the child in all...

Kex is the administrator of the Eidon Academy, a college with an interdimensional porthole on campus, and the intellectual center of a recently seceded Southern California.Roberto and his wife Sasha are busy acting out a bad campus novel, with infidelities and academic intrigues, when the known...

Kiss me, you’re beautiful.Will you come to Night Island?I’ve been calling.Tell me, are you there?I am coming but I cannot say what it is; what are you? Do I understand it right, that you are reading me?My name is Dun; I am Dark Knight, I am Dark Island, from...

The population of Los Angeles has vanished. John Dee has to find out why. With the help of his AI son, he journeys between dimensions, undergoes radical body modifications, topples extrasolar governments, and hunts his lost love, all without a clear idea of who he is. To rescue his city, and himself,...