Jacobson, Mark
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1948- ) US journalist – best known for his 1970s work for the Village Voice in New York – and author of an elaborately confabulated sf/fantasy novel, Gojiro (1991); the tale is seen through the eyes of a mild-mannered Monster, a Mutant lizard named after the Japanese film monster Gojira. Gojiro is a kind of Candide (see Voltaire), and his adventures with the kind and the cruel – especially on Radioactive Island (see Island), where radiation-damaged children called Atoms congregate – are occasionally effective; in the end, displays of gonzo sensibility tend to submerge any element of sf argument. [JC]
Mark Jacobson
born New York: 12 May 1948
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