Matthew Hughes: the Archonate

Archonate: the Fiction of Matthew Hughes

elcome to the web page of Matthew Hughes, science fiction and fantasy author. If you’re looking for Matt Hughes, the crime writer, you’re in the right place. Same goes for Hugh Matthews, who writes media tie-ins.

This web site offers excerpts, the latest news on my novel and story sales, a bio, and a complete bibliography.

In the near future, it will also host an on-line store where you can buy e-versions of my backlist books and collections of my short stories, both sf and crime. I plan to release one title a month for as long as the supply lasts.

Unlike my old page, this one is set up for comments, though they’ll be moderated. If you’d rather send me an email, I’m always happy to hear from people who have read my work.

If you’re an aspiring author, or an established pro, who needs a copy- or developmental editor, that’s another one of the hats I fit under. I also give evaluations of manuscripts of book-length fiction and short stories.

Praise for the Archonate and other works by Matthew Hughes

“Hapthorn's picaresque adventures, an adroit blend of SF and fantasy, pay homage both to Vance's Dying Earth fantasies and his classic Demon Princes future history... A tremendous amount of fun.”

George R. R. Martin

“Look, Matt Hughes is one of the most entertaining writers in the SF/fantasy field, now or ever -- his writing is reminiscent of Jack Vance at his lightest, P.G. Wodehouse at his least cow-creamer-focused, and Arthur Conan Doyle at his most frivolous. This is not my opinion; it's a fact.”

Andrew Wheeler

“Matthew Hughes is one of those writers whose witty, wry writing style is as enjoyable as the story he's writing about. His Archonate universe is a wonderfully compelling far future that mixes fantasy and science fiction.”

John DeNardo, for Kirkus Reviews

“Hughes has effectively captured Vance’s colorfully ironic way of portraying an exotic society and its inhabitants in a few strokes, as in the elaborate dress code on one of the worlds Hapthorn visits. He also has much of Vance’s touch with witty yet highly stylized dialogue. But perhaps the most Vanceian aspect of this series is Hapthorn himself, who may share professions with Sherlock Holmes, but whose overblown ego is more reminiscent of Cugel the Clever, one of Vance’s most memorable protagonists.”

Paul DiFillipo, in Asimov's Science Fiction


Featured Post:

Hapthorn and Imbry Paperbacks Coming

As part of my new venture into self-publishing my backlist, I’m taking advantage of the CreateSpace/Amazon connection to turn some of my ebooks into Print-On-Demand paperbacks.  Amazing to me, these POD titles will  not only be available from online bookstores, but can be ordered by actual brick-and-mortar bookstores in North America and Europe.

The first titles out will be the short story collections 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn and The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories, which have been selling pretty well as ebooks.  They should be through the production process before the end of May.

Doing the paperbacks has slowed down bringing out the Guth Bandar story collection and one of my trunk books.  But I’ll probably get to that after I’ve relocated to Athens at the end of the month.

 

Posted by Matthew Hughes on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 at 7:51 pm and filed under Home Page Features, News.
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