I wore wooden shoe “clogs” to protect my shoes from melting (the same kind coke oven operators wear when servicing the ovens). I had a job once at the US Steel Pipe Works, Geneva Plant, Utah where I took “slag temperatures” before they sprayed “devils liquor” sump water on it to cool it down. They’ll be afraid to commit suicide, and so will their children. Because if I do go on in this frame of mind and continue to support them, I shall teach them to be like I am, and they’ll go on, dragging it out to support their children, and they won’t enjoy it. Or I identify with my children, and I think of them going on without me and nobody to support them. Because there might really be after all eternal damnation. So if you think that’s the way things are, you might as well commit suicide right now. And these mechanics–doctors–are trying to help you out, but they really can’t succeed in the end, and you’re just going to fall apart, and it’s a grim business, and it’s just too bad. And you, poor thing, have to put up with being put into a body that’s falling apart, that gets cancer, that gets the great Siberian itch, and is just terrible. It is a mechanism, it is electronic and neurological mechanisms into which you somehow got caught. Because if you seriously go along with this idea of the world, you’re what is technically called alienated. People who had an advantage to make, a game to play by putting it down, and making out that because they put the world down they were a superior kind of people. «Now that Stephen King is increasingly falling prey to PC blandness, Bueso has decided to seize the burning fuse and blow the world to pieces.But however, you see, this whole idea that the universe is nothing at all but unintelligent force playing around and not even enjoying it is a putdown theory of the world. He captivates and wins over the most demanding of readers. «A hard-hitting style that goes straight for the jugular. Each new novel is a not-to-be-missed delight.» Carlos Ferrán, Crónicas literarias «No one understands fantasy/horror/action quite like Bueso. He is also a brave writer, who sees each new book as a fresh challenge.» Sergi Viciana, Fantífica «One of the finest writers working in Spanish today, able to bend words to his will. The hopes of Spanish fantasy and horror fiction rest on Bueso.» Miguel Barrero, Qué Leer Testifying once again to the author’s knack of creating claustrophobic atmospheres.

«Written in his trademark, robust style, always finding the perfect turn of phrase, the mot juste and the adjective that cuts to the core. In both the world of fandom and beyond, Bueso is already a not-to-be-missed name, he is ‘the man’.» Ricard Ruiz Garzón, El Periódico

Extraños eones by Emilio Bueso