Ether Frolics

"Marlowe offers a neatly controlled yet artfully wild and original sense of the bizarre and otherworldly. A unique collection that deserves readers." - Danuta Gleed Literary Award Jury

"Despite being devilishly clever, there’s more to Marlowe’s debut collection than humour and wordplay... Marlowe’s sense of place is dynamic and fresh, for all that his writing is set in the past... what Marlowe has written is a creation well worth the read, revealing a major Canadian talent."- The Winnipeg Review

"The collection as a whole balances humor and play with the intrusion of the darker elements of the human psyche and of civilization. Marlowe’s subtle use of steampunk elements and the text’s historical and textual allusiveness make reading the tales an engaging game in which this reader, at least, felt as if he were being positioned as one of the Etheric Explorers themselves..."- Journal of the Science Fiction Research Association

"Marlowe's stories are detailed, quirky, with a good sense of humour, but not without some dark, deft touches of horror..." - Telegraph-Journal