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"Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself." -Thomas Ligotti

"Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today." -China Mieville

"With Michael Cisco doing things like this, sometimes it feels like the rest of literature might as well get up and head home." -China Mieville on Cisco's novel CELEBRANT
"Fans of stylish and thematically sophisticated weird fiction should seek out ... Cisco's visionary genius." -Publishers Weekly

"The Narrator is not a subversive fantasy novel. It eliminates all other fantasy novels and starts the genre anew. You must begin your journey here." -Nick Mamatas

"An extraordinary story of war and the supernatural that combines the creepiness of Alien with the clear-eyed gaze of Full Metal Jacket. Like The Other Side if it included soldiers who could glide over the water, a mysterious tower right out of early David Lynch, and infused with Kafka's sese of the bizarre. Destined to be a classic." -Jeff VanderMeer on The Narrator

"A rivetingly strange novel in which Cisco mixes game theory, serious philosophy, SF, and dark fantasy into something at once unreal and really entrancing. Kind of like what might happen if Wyndham Lewis decided to write like M. John Harrison and had Martin Heidegger as his editor. Member is a complex, compelling work." -Brian Evenson

"To miss the humor in Cisco is to miss Cisco. Even though the plight of the characters is dark and the reader feels the dire nature of things, the general absurdity of what happens is at the same time unnervingly funny. I don't mean out loud, laugh-a-minute funny like the jokes in a TV sitcom, but humorous in the way that Poe's stories are or the stories of Borges." -Jeff Ford, on The Traitor

"He is absinthe in a world of Pepsi." -Jeffery Thomas

"The alchemy of words ceasing to be words, words seamlessly melting before our eyes into grandiose imagery, into soaring hallucination, into fever dreams that tap directly into our subconscious and perfectly describe emotions that cannot be described is something no author achieves with more effect than Michael Cisco." -Paul Tremblay, on The Golem