XX

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Product Details
Price
$25.00  $23.25
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Publish Date
Pages
992
Dimensions
5.8 X 8.81 X 1.63 inches | 2.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781419750700

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About the Author
Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, and typographer who has worked extensively for the British and American advertising, music, and comic book industries. He has written and drawn comics for 2000 AD and Batman Black and White and designed logos for the Avengers, the X-Men, Superman, record label Hedkandi, MTV, and James Bond. He has edited books on mid-century lifestyle illustration and custom typography, and written on semiotics, culture, and collecting vintage science-fiction pulps and paperbacks. In 2020, he was nominated for an Eisner Award for his book Logo-a-gogo. He lives in London.
Reviews
"XX is a page turner that transcends the typical alien story, becoming an engaging treatise on the nature and development of written language and its indelible impact on human culture."--The Boston Globe
"How can UK graphic design, illustrator, comics artist, author of a stack popular culture books, and now novelist, do it all?...to have conceived, written, and designed a sci-fi extravaganza on the intricacies of AI where complex, nuanced typography is essential to the narrative structure and, in effect, has redefined the structure of the graphic and illustrated novel, is short of miraculous."
--Steven Heller, Design Observer
"XX ... delights in exploring design's potential to amplify meaning. ... That does not mean XX is a triumph of appearance over content ... like the best pulp tales, it keeps you turning the pages, engages with big ideas and delivers an authentic jolt of awe as it takes its galaxy-spanning conceit to the limit, and then some."--Neville Hawcock, Financial Times
"Vastly ambitious, XX is the most astonishing blend of narrative, meta-narrative and visuals. Real 'wow' moments and big ideas combine with brilliant typographical flourishes to create the Moby Dick of sci-fi."--The Daily Mail
"Compulsively readable. Its ideas are grand, and it moves like a thriller. Come for the lush design, stay for the Clarkeian ideas and sly sense of humour."--SFX
"An alien invasion story like no other [that] raises the bar for science-fiction."--The Big Issue
"To have conceived, written, and designed a sci-fi extravaganza on the intricacies of AI where complex, nuanced typography is essential to the narrative structure, and in effect redefined the structure of the graphic and illustrated novel is nothing short of miraculous."--Design Observer
"Every single page has been meticulously crafted, appearing exactly as the author intends. Not a single piece of punctuation is without point or purpose."--Sci-Fi Now
"A monumental, wildly creative new novel that pushes the boundaries of storytelling."--Foyles
"... it's a beautifully designed piece of art with a compelling, at times hilarious, story behind it."--The Hollywood Reporter
"The combination of hard sf elements and Hughes's background as a cartoonist create a vivid, expansive reading experience. This will especially interest readers who are excited by hybrid novels that blend traditional and illustrative formats."

--Library Journal
"Extraordinary stuff... There are ideas larger and more mind-bending, I think, than those I have come across in any other sci-fi novel."--Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time