California edan lepucki review6/29/2023 ![]() His journey suggests an allegory of human development progressing through different stages of life, but readers will probably come up with many other interpretations as well, perhaps seeing in it a nightmare of isolated and introverted consciousness, or the endgame of technologies that have left humanity behind. On its surface it’s a psycho-mystical SF fantasy that describes the adventures of a figure (is he human? a cyborg? an alien or artificial intelligence?) named Crospinal.īecause Crospinal is like a newborn being released into a world he doesn’t understand, the reader has to share much of his confusion as he explores an environment or mental geography painted in the rusting colours of industrial-abstract expressionism. ![]() ![]() Toronto’s Brent Hayward has a knack for creating incredibly lush alternative worlds and mythologies, and Head Full of Mountains may be his most complex and demanding work yet. ![]()
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