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Faust, Minister

Pseudonym of Canadian radio host (most famously of Terrordome, a news/comment programme focusing on issues affecting Black Canadians), politician, controversialist and author Malcolm Azania (1969-    ) whose first novel, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), combines Recursive SF elements with material also taken from fantasy and horror – some of this material being derived from books, but much of it from Cinema and Comics sources – in a tale whose protagonists, despite their blockhead geekishness, both win over the reader and (possibly) save the universe from bad gods, bad karma, bad superweapons. The resemblances to the film Galaxy Quest (1999) are clearly deliberate but not damaging. From the Notebooks of Dr Brain (2007) follows the hyperbolic life of a therapist whose "Hyper-Hominid" clients include a team of Superheroes with personality disorders. The jokes are very broad. [JC]

Malcolm Azania

born Edmonton, Alberta: 1969

works

series

War & Mir

• Ascension (Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette: Narmer's Palette, 2012) [War & Mir: pb/]
• The Darkold (Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette: Narmer's Palette, 2014) [War & Mir: pb/]

individual titles

• The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2004) [pb/Ashley Wood]
  • The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad (Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette, 2013) [vt of the above: pb/]
• From the Notebooks of Dr Brain (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2007) [pb/Greg Horn]
  • Shrinking the Heroes (Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette, 2013) [vt of the above: pb/]
• The Alchemists of Kush (Edmonton, Alberta: Narmer's Palette, 2011) [pb/Stephen Brown]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 04:33 am on 13 January 2025.
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