Book Description
Patrick O’Leary wants to tell you a story: about Van Morrison, and vasectomies, and the aliens who are us; about the way it feels - really feels - to be alive and loving and hurting in a world made of wonders. So pull up a chair, open this book: and listen. —Kathe Koja, author of Extremities
Other Voices, Other Doors is essential O’Leary-zany, serious, unclassifiable, and delightful. It reveals the many brilliant facets of a deeply humane and utterly original writer. —Kathleen Ann Goonan, author of Crescent City Rhapsody
Other Voices, Other Doors neatly captures the kaleidescopic nature of Patrick O’Leary’s imagination. Begin reading with any piece - short story, essay, poem - and when next you check the time you will find hours have flown like some impossible bird. A truly hypnotic collection. —Jeffrey Ford, author of The Physiognomy
From LOCUS Magazine, January 2001:
Though today's publishing field is making it harder and harder to find volumes devoted to shorter pieces, collections live on thanks to small presses and the burgeoning print-on-demand business. We should also be grateful to those masters of the field who are willing to support newcomers. Gene Wolfe provides an entertaining intro to Patrick O'Leary's Other Voices, Other Doors, subtitled "A Collection of Stories, Meditations, and Poems"...he shows us through one of those doors and introduces us to the work of an author "so damned human it's a wonder the man-eating sharks haven't come ashore to get him." An author, this reader can now report, whose quirky versatality and hidden depths remind me of none other than Gene Wolfe.
If I were really clever, I might be able to disguise this review as something other than a rave. But nah — Wolfe and O'Leary are the masters at that game. So I just urge you to take a look at Other Voices, Other Doors. You won't be disappointed. —Faren Miller, Locus
Publisher comments
* An amateur alien novelist who cannot sell his autobiography even when it's disguised as science fiction
* A not-too-distant future
* where 5 corporations own everything and religions have been replaced by brands
* A bat whose bite transforms an ordinary boy into a genius
* A Christmas story about murderers
* A poet who encounters his genetic duplicate
* A hit man who specializes in retribution for bad book reviews
* The Story of Job, starring Randy Newman.
* An unreleased secret MonicaGate tape
* The mystery of the greatest living writer
* The shocking truth behind DOOR NUMBER THREE
* A tennis match between Freud and Jung
* A graphic depiction of a promising author s vasectomy
* The strangest nudie bar on the planet
* A Cowboy Hospital Romance
* And Much, Much More!
