![]() ![]() Except it turns out that BK Evenson – in a twist that perhaps only Rick Moody could have foreshadowed in his Four Fingers of Death – was Brian Evenson and suddenly Dead Space: Martyr became a book that we had to read.ĭead Space, for the uninitiated, is a hugely successful game in which a man called Isaac Clarke battles various multi-limbed beasties and obscure organic matter as he tries to escape from a planet he is mining. BK Evenson – my tired brain wondered – couldn’t possibly be Brian Evenson, whose Fugue State collection so blew us away in 2010. There I was, eating away, talking to the kids and having a laugh when I noticed a new book, casually dismissing it from title alone, before finding my eyes snagged by the author’s name. When Dead Space: Martyr dropped through the letterbox, the wife put it straight on the ‘take to charity shop’ pile – a pile that sits on the hearth over the fire by the dining room table where we sit to eat each night. If a novelisation of a movie is basically a book dressed up as a whore parading herself about for idiots, then surely a novelisation of a video game is an old whore, with no teeth and blackened gums, the kind of whore that Moll Flanders would have advised to stand in the shadows down the back of the alley. A novelisation of a video game strikes me as being somehow worse than a novelisation of a movie. From being a kid, I mostly sneered at novelisations of movies. ![]() The reason why I wouldn’t normally read a book like Dead Space: Martyr is because it is a novelisation of a video game. Not because I’m anti-genre, not because I’m anti-sci-fi, particularly, and not because I’m overly puritanical about avoiding books that have a title and a subtitle as the title. I’m not sure there is any way to say what I have to say without coming off like some kind of a book snob but: Dead Space: Martyr by BK Evenson is not the kind of book I’d usually read.
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