Overland Slice of Life Review

Jul 14, 2010 17:10

Over on Overland, one of Australia's premier literary journals, sits a Slice Of Life review.



Paranoia, profanity, horror, guilt, black humour - Haines’ worlds are macabre constructions existing somewhere in the borderland between genre greats Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison. Like in Dick, Haines’ everyday protagonists live in worlds where something is clearly going on beneath the surface of things. This combination of little people in their small everyday lives (in Haines case they often inhabit the grungy world of backpacking or share-housing) and grand dark forces (shadowy figures that control us in one way or another) opens a space for black humour. Like Ellison, Haines writes explicit and violent stories that show little respect for taboos.

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