“An ingeniously Borgesian novel that’s witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive . . . This is a book that not only addresses the themes of Homer’s classic—the dangers of pride, the protean nature of identity, the tryst between fate and free will—but also poses new questions to the reader about art and originality and the nature of storytelling.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
“Mason’s prose is finely wrought . . . His imagination soars and his language delights.”—Adam Mansbach, New York Times Book Review
“Clever, compelling, and often poignant . . . Mason’s puckishly archaic diction, a wiseacre’s revision of Richmond Lattimore with swing and jazz, is such a pleasure.”—Jesse Berrett, San Francisco Chronicle
“Marvelous . . . The stories’ wonderful variety reflects the cunning, resourceful character of Odysseus himself.”—Timothy Farrington, Wall Street Journal
“Jubilant in execution. Perverse and irreverent.”—Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe
“A subtle, inventive, and moving meditation on the nature of story and what Louis MacNeice calls ‘the drunkenness of things being various.’”—John Banville, Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea
“Spellbinding. In his versions of these ancient myths, Mason twists and jinks, renegotiating the journey to Ithaca with all the guile and trickery of Odysseus himself. Rarely is it so reassuring to be in the hands of such an unreliable narrator.”—Simon Armitage, author of The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
Praise for Metamorphica:
“Metamorphica is a joy of a book. Mason understands beautifully that traditions are most powerful in their reinvention. Beyond their tremendous lyricism and admirable control, these retellings of Mediterranean myth offer the truest pleasure of all fiction, its immense possibility. Metamorphica brims with imagination and an astonishing empathy that reminds us that even the most ancient of legends can feel urgent to us today, if only we would just listen.”—Kanish Tharoor, author of Swimmer Among the Stars
“Lush and very smart . . . the stories throb with tragedy, transformation, and wars.”—JR Ramakrishnan, Electric Literature
“[An] impressive collection of flash fictions that accentuate the pain, frustrations, and regrets of well-known and unfamiliar myths.”—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Void Star:
“[Mason] writes with a mathematical precision that often crystallizes into lines of clean, poetic beauty.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
“Elegant . . . written with the syntactic precision you might expect from a linguist, a computer scientist, a mathematician. Or a person who is all three.”—Charley Locke, Wired
“Speculative fiction has long wrestled with . . . ethical quandaries, but rarely has it done so with the power of language and prescience found in Void Star. Mason’s prose is prodigious in scope and exultant.”—Hayden Robel, Zyzzyva
“Readers who enjoy Cormac McCarthy and China Miéville but wished they had had more influence from Neal Stephenson might find this book is just what they’re looking for.”—Dawn Kuczwara, Booklist
“Void Star is an extraordinary novel. The hallucinatory beauty of the prose is matched only by the book’s velocity and mystery, and the story―of mortality, memory, and what it means to be human―holds all the force and power of mythology.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
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