Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh fantasy writer and essayist.[1]

Rhys Henry Hughes
Born1966
Cardiff, Wales
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
NationalityWelsh
GenreAbsurdism, Fantasy, OuLiPo, Science fiction
Website
rhysaurus.blogspot.com

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Born in Cardiff, Hughes has written in a variety of forms, from short stories to novels.

His long novel Engelbrecht Again! is a sequel to Maurice Richardson's 1950 cult classic The Exploits of Engelbrecht and is the most radical of Hughes's books, making extensive use of lipograms, typographical tricks, coded passages and other OuLiPo techniques.[2]

His main project consists of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales.[2]

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Novels

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  • The Percolated Stars: An Astro-Caffeine Romp in Three Cups Featuring Batavus Droogstoppel Merchant and Scientist and Bourgeois Monster: One Lump or Two? (RazorBlade Press; 2003)[2]
  • Engelbrecht Again! (Dead Letter Press; 2008; ISBN 978-0-9796335-4-6)
  • Mister Gum; Or: The Possibly Phoney Profundity of Puerility (Dog Horn Publishing; 2009)[2]
  • Twisthorn Bellow (Atomic Fez Publishing; 2010; ISBN 978-0-9811597-1-3)[2]
  • The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange (Meteor House; 2013; ISBN 978-0-983746-13-3)[2]
  • The Young Dictator (Pillar International Publishing; 2013; ISBN 978-0-9574598-3-0)[2]
  • Captains Stupendous; Or, the Fantastical Family Faraway (expansion of The Coandă Effect: A Corto Maltese Adventure) (Telos Moonrise; 2014; ISBN 978-1-84583-886-7[2]
  • The Pilgrim's Regress (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN 979-8-697441-96-1)
  • Cloud Farming in Wales (Snuggly Books; 2017; ISBN 978-1-943813-36-0)
  • The Honeymoon Gorillas (Bizarro Pulp Press; 2018; ISBN 978-1-947654-55-6)
  • The Wistful Wanderings of Perceval Pitthelm (Telos Publishing; 2023; ISBN 978-1-845832-12-4)
  • Growl at the Moon (Telos Publishing; 2024; ISBN 978-1-845832-38-4)

Novellas

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Collections

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Poetry

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Ebooks

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  • The Rhys Hughes Fantastic MEGAPACK® (Wildside Press; 2022)

References

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  1. ^ "Rhys Hughes". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Hughes, Rhys". the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b c S. T. Joshi (2006). Icons of Horror And the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of our Worst Nightmares - Volume 1. Greenwood Press. p. 368. ISBN 0-313-33781-0.
  4. ^ a b c d e f John Clute (2016). Pardon This Intrusion. Orion. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-4732-1979-3.
  5. ^ Djibril. "Rhys Hughes, Brothel Creeper (2011)". Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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