Ten Reasons To Read The Gone-Away World (Or Make Someone Else Read It):
1. It’s fun and you will emerge from the experience a happier person.
2. Your Crazy Aunt Boris would almost certainly forbid you to read it, because your mind is fragile and might be warped by my wickedness.
3. It’s a political parable about Otherness and a slantendicular examination of abstract systems and human evil.
4. I totally just used the word ‘slantendicular’. That’s got to be worth something.
5. There are ninjas in the book. There are fights and battles and alarums and klaxons. You will not fall asleep. In fact, you may stay up all night and call in sick the following day. It has happened.
6. I am not, in fact, naked while I pimp this book. Be glad in your heart.
7. A bunch of newspapers and blogs say it’s kinda cool. [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10...]
8. It has Frege for added thinky. Frege is the sexiest logician ever. No one will be able to resist your sexy brain.
9. Without really meaning to, I ended up writing a strange and haunting description of modern war, which apparently – despite the fact that I am not a soldier – is not bad.
10. Despite all this apparent seriousness, it will make you laugh, and that is never a bad thing.
